E-BOOKS - ACCA EXAM STUDY AND REVISION GUIDES

More than ever before, today’s students are required to learn wide and complex syllabuses in order to achieve their pass grades.  And, it’s not easy!  We believe that modern technology and study should go hand in hand in ways that ease the work of students and make their learning enjoyable, interesting and relevant.  That’s why we have introduced our series of E-books - the +AddVance range.  The new way for your ACCA study!

An E-book is the digital equivalent of a conventional printed book or manual.  Tony Surridge +AddVance E-Books are designed to be downloaded and read on personal computers (desktops) and laptop computers.

Specifically written by authors with extensive knowledge, the Tony Surridge range of +AddVance E-Books are tailored and suitable for your ACCA study and ACCA revision, in preparation for your ACCA exam.

Produced from our first-hand knowledge of students over many years we believe that the Tony Surridge +AddVance E-Book Series will bring students 10 powerful benefits:
 

1. ACCA Exams are tough (and seem to be getting harder and harder)

We all know how difficult it is to get that much sought after 'PASS' grade in your ACCA exam.  When you go into the exam hall you will need knowledge, application and technique, and strong confidence in your own ability. Examiners no longer simply look for an ability to calculate (after all computers do this at phenomenal speed) – they are concerned about a candidate’s ability to interpret, assess, evaluate and analyse.  These attributes are not easily acquired, as many students have discovered to their cost.  Quality exam answers are based on a student having an up-to-date information platform - and this can be more easily achieved by today’s web search engines.  Integration of such new information can be more meaningful if your base study material is already held on computer files.
 

2. ACCA Exams deal with wide and even more expanding subjects

Students often moan that ACCA exam syllabuses are lengthy but it is vitally important that all learning requirements of a particular subject (aspects, theories, calculation, discussions and so on) are covered.   Often this calls for cross-referencing topics covered in different but complementary exam subjects – a task more easily done when different subjects are held on digital memory in the same computer system, rather than referencing through multiple heavy ACCA books.

 

3. ACCA Exams shift in focus

The constant change in business environments, accounting standards, legislation and working practices influence the focus, context and content of examination questions.  Computer technology can quickly incorporate changes within digital text.  (There is no stock of unsold ACCA books or manuals which need to be sold before a new edition can be printed.)

 

4. Study material can get out of date

Continuing from the previous point, study material can be irrelevant or designed in ways that are difficult to study.  You need the right materials relevant to your ACCA course and ACCA revision.  Students often spend too much time studying aspects which are out of date, inappropriate or not  suitably emphasised, simply because these are the preferred topics of their lecturers, are easy for their lecturers  to teach, or are inadequately dealt with in text-books.  We have designed our +AddVance E-books to track each syllabus, line by line, and provide text, activities, examples, tutorial advice, definitions, mnemonics and exam-status problems as appropriate.

 

5. Your ACCA courses are costly!

Students who attend formal classroom courses pay for expensive teaching premises, high- salaried lecturers, paper-based ACCA study material and other high overhead costs incurred by their ACCA course provider.  All Tony Surridge +AddVance E-Books are downloaded to your computer from just £3* (for a price less than a sandwich and soft drink in London!)  Where else could you buy a full ACCA subject textbook (effectively a full study package) or an ACCA revision guide from only £3?

(* Whilst introductory offer lasts and subject to VAT where applicable)  
 

 

6. Your ACCA studies are time consuming

Most students have limited study time, much of which is not efficiently utilised.   For example, people often waste time travelling, sometimes moving to and from college, waiting for lectures to start and often need to work at the slower speed of other students in the group.   With ‘digital' tuition every minute of available study time can be utilised.   It may not be convenient to open a large book in a crowded train – but it is if all your study material is held on a laptop. 

 

7. Conventional study systems are often inflexible

Conventional classroom-based courses are restrictive.  They usually consist of a preset number of lectures, the same for each subject although a student may find one ACCA subject more difficult than another.  Lectures are sometimes 'hurried' because the lecturers responsible for teaching have insufficient time to put across topics in ways they prefer.  In many cases, students   experience problems in covering 'lost ground' when they miss lectures due to sickness, pressures of work, or for some other reason.   Also lecture durations are often too long, or are at the wrong time, say in the evening when a student is tired after a hard day’s work, making concentration over the full length of the lecture difficult.  We certainly don’t recommend that you stop classroom tuition – indeed, there are many positives in being taught in a group situation.  However many of the traditional problems mentioned here can be eased by the use of computer-based E-books.  The simple fact is that, outside of their classroom, students can do what they want, where they want, when they want, and at their own speed!  The Tony Surridge +AddVance E-books are an excellent supplement to your ACCA classroom experience.  

 

8. Textbooks can be a tedious way of learning

For many people, simply reading a manual or text-book is a very mind-numbing way of studying, but is often the only way of learning!   Tony Surridge +AddVance E-books incorporate multicolour (for screen learning), case studies, quotations, real-world examples, many diagrams and interesting activities - all with the aim of passing on vital knowledge in interesting and thought provoking ways.  We think this is the future of ACCA books!

 

9. Interaction with other ACCA students

Students who study at home - because they are compelled to for various reasons, often miss the advantages of interaction with other ACCA students, who after all are facing the same study commitment and problems.  One of the downsides of 'home study' is that people are not able to interact in a  'group' situation and learn from each other.  Although conventional classroom courses consist of different people attending lectures, each lecture is normally made up of a number of individuals who do not interact as a group.   There are cultural and personal reasons why many students prefer to remain separate in the classroom.  The Tony Surridge Forum is designed to bring different ACCA students and their problems and ideas together electronically, across wide distances, in a very effective and acceptable way.

 

10. We believe our books are the best!

The 10th point is easiest of them all.  We think, that once you have used our +AddVance study material, you’ll agree that this is one of the most thorough and complete coverage of the ACCA syllabus being offered by anyone, anywhere – and at such a low price.  And why is our price so low?  Because:

• we are a paperless (electronic workflow) college.
• we reach our global customers by sophisticated low-cost e-business infrastructures.
• we do not carry costly inventories of unsold paper books.
• we do not suffer high print and dispatch costs.
• we use modern e-business systems to produce high-quality, relevant, up-to-date, user-friendly, immediately accessible study material with very low overhead costs.
• we drastically cut the cost of non-value bureaucracy by using a virtual management approach to the way we service our customers.

All our cost reductions are passed onto our customers.