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ACCA Performance Management (PM)

A route through ACCA Performance Management: the current syllabus and session, a dated study plan, costing, decision, budgeting, variance and performance topics in syllabus order, exam technique, mocks and results.

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

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🎓 Finance & Business Certifications

ACCA Performance Management (PM)

Studying ACCA Performance Management: costing methods, budgeting, variance analysis, decision-making techniques and performance measurement, with past exam questions.

  1. Confirming PM is your next ACCA paper
  2. Current PM syllabus, study guide and exam format pack
  3. Choosing your PM exam session and entry deadline
  4. PM study text, exam kit and tuition choice
  5. Management Accounting refresher before PM
  6. Cold attempt at the PM specimen exam
  7. PM study calendar to exam day
  8. Learning the PM computer-based exam software
  9. Weekly PM study planning session
  10. Daily objective test question set
  11. Formula and proforma flashcards
  12. PM error log by syllabus area
  13. Weekly timed constructed-response question
  14. Monthly PM study plan check
  15. Examiner reports and technical articles routine
  16. Study partner weekly check-in
  17. MyACCA account and subscription admin
  18. Management information, big data and reporting
  19. Activity-based costing and cost drivers
  20. Target costing and life-cycle costing
  21. Throughput accounting and the bottleneck
  22. Environmental management accounting
  23. Cost-volume-profit analysis for multiple products
  24. Limiting factors and linear programming
  25. Pricing decisions and the demand equation
  26. Relevant costing for make-or-buy and shutdown decisions
  27. Risk and uncertainty in PM decisions
  28. Budgetary systems and their behavioural effects
  29. High-low, regression and time series forecasts
  30. Learning curves in budgets and decisions
  31. Basic, mix and yield variances
  32. Planning and operational variances
  33. Performance measures, ratios and the balanced scorecard
  34. Divisional performance and transfer pricing
  35. Not-for-profit and public sector performance
  36. External factors and behaviour in performance management
  37. Written discussion technique for constructed-response answers
  38. Time allocation and question order in the PM exam
  39. Recovery plan for a slipping PM timetable
  40. Timed full mock exam series
  41. Final four weeks of PM revision
  42. PM exam day checklist
  43. PM results day and next step decision
  44. Resit plan after a PM fail
  45. Studying PM while working in a finance team
  46. Pairing PM with a university degree
  47. Sitting PM from the Caribbean
  48. Applying PM techniques to your employer's figures
  49. Spreadsheet models of PM decision techniques
  50. Coaching a fellow PM candidate

Where it starts.

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

Confirming PM is your next ACCA paper

Before buying a single textbook, check that you actually need to sit Performance Management. Accredited degrees and some professional qualifications carry an exemption from PM, and ACCA's progression rules decide when an Applied Skills exam can be booked. Ten minutes in the exemptions calculator and your MyACCA record can save a full exam fee and months of study.

First tasks

  • Log in to MyACCA and check your exam status for Performance Management
  • Run each of your qualifications through ACCA's exemptions calculator
  • Read ACCA's current rules on which exams must come before PM
  • Write down your decision to sit PM or claim the exemption, with the date

Current PM syllabus, study guide and exam format pack

ACCA publishes a syllabus and study guide for each exam year, and the summaries passed around on forums often describe an older version. Saving the current documents, the specimen exam and a one-page note of the exam structure, with the date you checked, gives every later project an official reference. The study guide's detailed learning outcomes then become your topic checklist.

First tasks

  • Download the PM syllabus and study guide for your exam session
  • Save the current specimen exam and its answers in a study folder
  • Write a one-page note of the current exam format with the date checked
  • Turn the study guide learning outcomes into a topic checklist
  • Recheck ACCA's PM page for syllabus updates before each session @recurring(quarterly)

Choosing your PM exam session and entry deadline

Most candidates need several months for PM, and more if Management Accounting feels distant. PM is sat in ACCA's fixed exam sessions rather than on demand, and the entry fee rises as the deadline approaches. Picking the session from the study hours you can really give each week, then entering in the early window, fixes the date the whole plan counts back from.

First tasks

  • Estimate the study hours you can give each week for the next six months
  • Compare the next three PM sessions against those hours
  • Write the chosen session's entry deadlines in your calendar
  • Set aside the exam entry fee before the early deadline
  • Enter PM in MyACCA and save the confirmation

Make it yours.

Install ACCA Performance Management (PM), 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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