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ACCA Financial Management (FM)

A route through ACCA Financial Management: the current syllabus and exam format, a dated study plan, every syllabus area from working capital to currency risk, timed numerical practice, mocks and exam day.

Free · Mac (Apple silicon) and Windows · v1.0.0 · Other platforms

Then open the Marketplace in the app, search for ACCA Financial Management (FM), and click Install. It goes into your own files, and works offline from then on.

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🎓 Finance & Business Certifications

ACCA Financial Management (FM)

Studying ACCA Financial Management: investment appraisal, cost of capital, business valuation, working capital and risk management, with timed numerical practice.

  1. Current FM syllabus, study guide and exam format pack
  2. Checking FM exemptions and your place in the ACCA route
  3. Choosing your FM exam session and entry deadline
  4. FM study materials, tuition and budget decision
  5. FM study calendar counted back from the exam
  6. Maths and calculator readiness for FM
  7. Using the FM formulae sheet and discount tables
  8. Practising FM in the ACCA exam software
  9. Weekly FM study blocks around lectures and work
  10. Daily FM objective test question set
  11. FM error log by syllabus area
  12. Blank-page formula and proforma recall drill
  13. Monthly FM progress check against the calendar
  14. Reading FM examiner's reports and technical articles
  15. Weekly interest rate and currency news log
  16. ACCA account, subscription and exam entry admin
  17. Financial objectives, stakeholders and value for money
  18. Economic policy, financial markets and institutions
  19. Working capital cycle, ratios and funding strategy
  20. Inventory, receivables and payables decisions
  21. Cash budgets and cash management models
  22. NPV with tax, inflation and working capital
  23. Payback, ARR and IRR by interpolation
  24. Asset replacement and lease or buy decisions
  25. Capital rationing for divisible and indivisible projects
  26. Risk and uncertainty in investment appraisal
  27. Sources of finance for listed companies and SMEs
  28. Rights issues, scrip dividends and dividend policy
  29. Cost of equity and cost of debt calculations
  30. WACC, gearing theory and project-specific discount rates
  31. Business valuation methods and market efficiency
  32. Foreign currency risk, parity and hedging
  33. Interest rate risk and the yield curve
  34. Answer planning for constructed-response questions
  35. Switching from reading to question-led study
  36. Remediation plan for your weakest syllabus area
  37. Deciding whether to keep or move your FM session
  38. Three timed full FM mock exams
  39. Final four weeks of FM revision
  40. FM exam week and exam-day checklist
  41. FM results day and the next paper decision
  42. FM resit plan after a fail
  43. Studying FM alongside an accounting degree
  44. Studying FM while working as a finance trainee
  45. Studying FM around children or caring duties
  46. Sitting FM from the Caribbean
  47. Self-study FM without a tuition provider
  48. Valuing a listed company from its annual report
  49. Reusable NPV and WACC spreadsheet model
  50. Running FM revision sessions for classmates

Where it starts.

Each project arrives with its purpose, milestones and first tasks written out. Here is how the first three read.

Current FM syllabus, study guide and exam format pack

ACCA publishes the Financial Management syllabus and study guide for each exam year, and second-hand textbooks or forum summaries are often a version behind. Saving the current documents, the exam format page and the formulae sheet from ACCA's website, with the date you checked, gives every later project an official reference instead of a rumour.

First tasks

  • Download the FM syllabus and study guide for your exam year from ACCA's website
  • Write the current exam format on one page with the date you checked it
  • Print the formulae sheet and maths tables provided in the exam
  • List the syllabus areas in ACCA's order at the top of your study plan
  • Recheck ACCA's FM page for syllabus changes and announcements @recurring(quarterly)

Checking FM exemptions and your place in the ACCA route

Some accounting and finance degrees carry an exemption from FM, so the first question is whether you need to sit it at all. Checking your exemption status, the Applied Knowledge exams still outstanding and any rule about which exams must come first avoids paying for an exam you could have claimed, or entering for one you are not yet allowed to take.

First tasks

  • Run your degree and other qualifications through ACCA's exemptions search
  • Save the exemptions result and note whether FM is included
  • Check ACCA's current rules on which exams must be passed before FM
  • Claim and pay for any exemptions you are entitled to

Choosing your FM exam session and entry deadline

FM is sat in fixed exam sessions rather than on demand, and the entry fee rises as you move from early to standard to late entry. Picking a session that leaves enough study weeks, then entering in the early window, saves money and gives the study calendar a fixed end date.

First tasks

  • Look up the next two FM session dates and their entry windows on ACCA's site
  • Count the study weeks available before each session
  • Enter for the chosen session during the early entry window
  • Save the entry confirmation and note the test centre

Make it yours.

Install ACCA Financial Management (FM), then tell Aurum the date you're aiming for. It checks whether the plan fits the weeks you actually have.

Free · Mac (Apple silicon) and Windows · v1.0.0 · Other platforms

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