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The structure of the P1 exam
How to use the Study
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Detailed P1 Study Guide

What is Paper P1 and

how is it examined?
For an explanation of the nature
of the subject and how it is
examined, first read our P1 Key
to success article.

The two key elements to

success are:
Learning and Practice

Learning:
We provide a complete free course
of on-line lectures covering
everything you need for the exam,
together with free downloadable
Lecture Notes to be used while
watching the lectures. You should
watch all of the lectures in the order
given in the programme attached
and work through the examples in
the Lecture Notes as the tutor works
through and explains them in the
lectures.
Our tutors are all UK qualified
accountants and have all been
training accountancy students for
over 30 years.

We provide a complete free course

Revision/Exam Kit purchased from

one of the ACCA approved
publishers. (To explain the coding
used: D10Q1 means Question 1
from the December 2010 exam.
J11Q2 means Question 2 from the
June 2011 exam, and so on.)
(For questions not listed on the
ACCA website, you can usually find
them by searching using Google.)

Practice:
It is vital to practice as many examstandard questions as possible. For
most of the chapters in the Lecture
Notes there are listed on our Study
Guide past exam questions to
attempt.
You can find these questions either
free of charge on the ACCA website
(www.accaglobal.com) or in a

Please note that because, in Paper

P1, exam questions often test more
than one topic, it is important to work
through our lectures in order. When
there are no questions listed after a
chapter, it is not because the topic is
not important, but because the topic
only forms part of questions questions later in the guide will
include these topics.

Additional resources
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resources - again, all free of charge including the following:
A Paper P1 forum where you
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on anything to do with the
exam.
A Paper P1 Ask the Tutor
forum when you can get help
directly from the tutor
responsible for P1.

How to use the Study

Programme
Work through each chapter of the
Lectures Notes in the order listed,
watching the lectures that are linked
alongside the chapters.
Those chapters that do not have a
lecture attached do not involve
calculations and are for you to read
yourself.
When you have completed chapters
and watched all of the corresponding
lectures, then attempt the past exam
questions that are listed.
Again, many past questions test more
than one topic they are listed in the
Study Guide after all topics have been
covered in the lectures. It is therefore
important that you work through the
chapters in order.
Tick the check boxes as you work
through the programme, and
remember to ask in the Ask the Tutor
Forum if you have any problems.

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Chapter in free Lecture Notes

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Past exam questions to attempt

Lecture /
Notes

Past exam
questions

Tick when complete

Introduction to P1
1 Corporate governance

Corporate governance (part a)

Corporate governance (part b)
Corporate governance (part c)

2 Approaches to corporate governance

J11Q3(b); J12Q2(a); J12q3(a,b);

J12Q4(a); D12Q2(b); D13Q2(b);
D14Q3(c);

Approaches to corporate governance

(part a)
Approaches to corporate governance
(part b)

3 The board of directors

J10Q3(a); D11Q2(a,c); D12Q2(b);

J13Q4(a); D13Q2(a,c);

The board of directors (part a)

The board of directors (part b)
The board of directors (part c)
The board of directors (part d)

4 Board committees

J11Q4(c); D11Q2(b); J12Q3(c);

J12Q4(b,c); J13Q3(b); J13Q4(c);
D13Q4(a); D14Q2(c); D14Q3(a,b);
J15Q3(b)

Board committees (part a)

Board committees (part b)
Board committees (part c)

J10Q2(a); D10Q3(a,b); J11Q3(c);

D11Q3(a); J12Q2(b); J13Q2(bi);
J13Q4(b); D13Q3(a); J14Q3(c);
J14Q4(b); J15Q3(a,c)

5 Corporate governance and corporate

social responsibility

Corporate governance and corporate

social responsibility

D11Q3(c); D12Q4(c); J14Q2(c);

J15Q2(a,b,c)

6 Corporate governance control

systems

Read the chapter

J10Q3(b); D12Q3(a); D14Q4(b)

7 Auditors and internal controls

Auditors and internal controls

J10Q3(c); J13Q2(a,bii,c); J14Q4(c);

D14Q4(b);

8 Management information systems

Management information systems

D12Q3(c);

9 The risk management process

The risk management process (part a)

The risk management process (part b)
The risk management process (part c)

10 Controlling risk

Controlling risk (part a)

Controlling risk (part b)

11 Ethics and social responsibility

D10Q4(a); D11Q3(b); D12Q4(b);

J13Q3(c); D13Q4(b); J14Q2(b);

J10Q1(di); D10Q4(b,c); J11Q2;

J12Q2(c); J13Q3(a); J14Q1(d);
J14Q2(a);

Ethics and social responsibility (part a)

Ethics and social responsibility (part b)

J14Q4(a); J14Q4(a);

12 Deontology and teleology

Deontology and teleology

D10Q1(b);

13 Social responsibility

Social responsibility

J10Q2(c); J11Q1(dii); D11Q4(a,b);

J12Q1(b); D12Q4(a); D13Q3(c);

14 Professions and the public interest

Professions and the public interest (part

a)
Professions and the public interest (part
b)

J10Q4(b); J15Q1(b);

15 Professional practice and codes of

ethics

Professional practice and codes of ethics

J11Q4(a); D11Q1(a); D13Q4(c);

16 Ethical characteristics of
professionalism

Ethical characteristics of professionalism

J10Q4(c); J11Q4(b);

17 Social and environmental and ethical

behaviour

Read the chapter

D10Q2; D10Q4(d); D11Q4(c);

D12Q1(a); J13Q1(a); D13Q1(b);
J14Q3(b); J15Q4(b,c);

18 Internal management systems such

as Emas and ISO 14000

Read the chapter

19 Integrated reporting

Read the chapter

D14Q1(diii)