However, the lack of practical experience, poor English expression ability and too little knowledge reserve are the problems that restrict undergraduates to overcome ACCA. How do universities overcome these problems and face ACCA in four years?
"five things" in freshman year
If you have a plan, you have to prepare from freshman year. Choosing ACCA class is choosing a challenge. However, the question is, what should a freshman do?
Freshmen need to do five things:
(1) Forget the joy of your success in the college entrance examination as soon as possible, and try to adjust to the mentality of college students and prepare for the challenge.
(2) make up English! This is the basis of ACCA learning.
(3) Read as many books as possible in the shortest time and expand your knowledge rapidly.
(4) Self-study or attend classes to learn three courses: accounting foundation, financial management and management accounting.
(5) Start to train your thinking and expression skills, and write an essay or diary in English every day, instead of narratives and essays, with opinions and arguments.
How to allocate study time?
Freshmen can start to contact ACCA textbooks. Different from social students, undergraduates may spend more time reading textbooks, but it should be noted that they should never "read intensively". It is suggested to "adjust the depth with the progress", that is, when reading the textbook for the first time, it is best to achieve an average progress of 20-30 pages per day. After reading the textbook, people often feel that they haven't remembered anything, which is normal, but it doesn't matter. Next, you need to do the problem, find out the problem or lack of knowledge by doing the problem, and then come back to read the textbook. Do at least 2-3 exercises. Only if you are very skilled can you be sure of the exam.
ACCA of Gao Dun Finance reminds you that ACCA 13 course does not contain all the necessary knowledge, so besides the teaching materials, you need to contact a lot of extracurricular reading materials and participate in some social activities.
The reading scope can take ACCA course as the core and gradually expand outward; Reading is mainly to expand knowledge, and some concepts are enough, so it is not necessary to master them in depth; When reading a book, you should think and accumulate, so as to cultivate and improve your learning ability. Practice has proved that it is difficult for ACCA students to understand some contents in textbooks and exams without corresponding extracurricular reading as a supplement.
ACCA is a practical exam, and sometimes some experience may be the only way for you to break through this obstacle. Therefore, participating in social activities and dealing with classmates will help you learn how to comprehensively consider problems, how to persist and compromise, and how to communicate and express. The improvement of these abilities is conducive to the adoption of ACCA.
ACCA, surprise attacks don't work.
ACCA is not an examination to select talents, but a long-distance running to test willpower, and perseverance is the key. The idea of crossing the border by surprise is not feasible.
College students should make full use of their holidays to study. Generally, ACCA takes school exams after each exam, and then has a holiday. I will get a new book before. Instead of relaxing myself and waiting for the results after the start of school, I think it is better to move my mind during the holiday and fully cherish the textbooks of 2-3 courses. When the teacher lectures again after the start of school, I am completely ready, the learning effect is greatly improved, and the probability of passing the exam will increase a lot.
English ability can't be just for exams.
ACCA's exercise in English reading and writing expression is obvious, but passing ACCA does not mean that English is good. In fact, most ACCA students expect to work in foreign companies or foreign-related units, so their English needs to be improved. ACCA students must pay attention to three key points in English:
First, whether the pronunciation is standard or not, the problems left over from junior high school will sometimes become a big problem affecting employment.
The second is whether your spoken English is fluent. You can have a small vocabulary and poor grammar, but you cannot express yourself fluently. Otherwise, you will be considered a nerd with an ACCA qualified report card in your hand.
The third is to learn more business English. Many college students can't even write the cover when sending faxes, which will offset the ACCA value he got.
Suggestion 1: Learn to think in English.
Encourage candidates to have their own unique views on the problem and look at the future optimistically. Because it trains senior management talents, many problems it faces are not limited to the accounting field, so it is necessary to expand its own ideas from a higher angle. On the one hand, we should cultivate our habit of thinking in English, divergent analysis ability and inductive ability, on the other hand, we should start with the most basic essence and logical analysis, and cultivate our decision-making, judgment ability and psychological endurance in complex environment. The cultivation of these abilities can gradually form their ability to analyze and solve problems flexibly, independently and dialectically through repeated research, analysis and experience of a large number of cases provided by them.
Recommendation 2: Grasp the regularity of ACCA examination.
The regularity of ACCA examination questions is relatively strong, and the key contents will appear repeatedly in the examination questions over the years. Although the textbook provides a lot of content and information, each actual exam will not exceed one-third of the content of the textbook, and there will be no digression and strange questions. Candidates may wish to try to practice the real questions of ACCA exam over the years and find out the rules of the examiner's questions. Repeated practice for these key points will help to grasp the main points of the exam, improve learning efficiency and be of great help to pass the exam. But this analysis must be based on a comprehensive understanding of the contents of the book.
Suggestion 3: Make full use of students' communication to expand their knowledge.
In addition to mastering the knowledge provided by textbooks and exercises, we should also make full use of students' newsletters, constantly expand our knowledge, understand the latest information and accept different viewpoints. In the last few difficult courses, such as management planning and financial planning, textbooks seem to provide only a knowledge framework, which needs to be supplemented constantly. For example, the continuous cultivation of enterprise's core competitiveness, competitive advantage, performance evaluation system and the influence of global economic integration on enterprises can be linked to some well-known domestic enterprises at present. These concepts have many appropriate applications in the actual operation of multinational companies, which are helpful to the understanding and application of textbook knowledge.
Recommendation 4: Don't ignore the "mentor" around you.
After gaining gains and experience in the learning process, we should constantly communicate with our classmates and colleagues to deepen our impression. ACCA mainly relies on self-study, but sometimes a few instructions from teachers or classmates will solve a problem that can't be understood repeatedly. And once knowledge is understood, it is not easy to forget. In addition, we should pay attention to reasonable arrangement of time. For on-the-job staff, time is the most important constraint, whether in the learning process or in the examination room. Therefore, in the case of tight time, it is the only way to handle the contradiction between work and study and improve the efficiency of work and study.
Recommendation 5: Anyone can try.
In fact, everyone has great potential, and the key is whether to tap it; ACCA is not unattainable, it needs perseverance and diligence instead of genius. Many students said that ACCA not only gave them knowledge, but more importantly, gave them the courage and confidence to constantly challenge themselves and overcome difficulties. Young people with a solid foundation in English and theory and some practical work experience may wish to give it a try.