bpp slovenia brochure

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Education and training

for career development

BPP ProfessionalEducation




Pursuing excellence in professional education

BPP Professional Education is the company that trains people for the qualifications they need tobecome business professionals and offers continuing professional development throughouttheir careers.

BPP has operated in Slovenia since 2005, providing training and development for businessprofessionals. We are particularly proud of our client portfolio: companies who have entrustedthe development of their staff to us over recent years and who continue to do so.

We provide focused and practical training in the areas of accounting, finance, management skillsand audit (internal and external).

With business professionals facing an ever-tougher working environment in today’s world, ourmission is to work with our clients to match their corporate and individual objectives and toprovide training solutions that make a positive impact on the development of their organisation.

We believe in quality and innovation in professional education. Development and training of people in your organisation is so vital to business success that we make quality our single, mostimportant objective. BPP authors and tutors are all qualified in the professions for which they

write or teach.

With this in mind please feel free to contact us and let us know about your training needs. I hope we can be of service to you and look forward to meeting you.

Rosauro Aala MA DipCG FCAManaging director of BPP Slovenia

e-mail: [email protected]

Facts about BPP Professional Education today:

• Established in 1976 and listed on the UK stock exchange in 1986

• One of the world’s largest financial services trainingcompanies

• Europe’s largest professional training company

• Europe’s largest insolvency training company

• UK’s sole actuarial training company and rapidlygrowing in the USA

• World leader in computer based training

• Market capitalisation approximately €510 million

• Over 2,000 staff including professionally qualified tutorsand authors

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44 locations worldwide




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ACCA is the largest global professional accountancy body, with nearly 300,000 members and studentsin 160 countries. For over 100 years, the ACCA qualification has represented the ultimate in integrity,flexibility and true vocational opportunity for accountants and business people alike.

International recognition

ACCA is recognised as the premier accountancy globalqualification and the United Nations have recognised the ACCA

syllabus as the most comprehensive professional accountancycurriculum in the world! The ACCA qualification is also officiallyrecognised throughout the EU as a result of EU directive89/48/EEC.

This means that once qualified you have a very transferable qualificationwhich gives you excellent career opportunities.

The syllabus

The ACCA syllabus combines the benefits of traditionalaccounting skills with strategic thinking,communication skills, people management skills, ethics

and business conduct.

The exams focus on key areas required by financeprofessionals to excel in their jobs and add value totheir company’s performance.

The examPapers F1-F3 are either two-hour written exams or two-hour computer based exams*.

All other papers are three-hour written exams (with a15 minute reading/planning period before the exam)held in Ljubljana.

Written exams are held in the first full two weeks of June and December. Computer based exams can beattempted at any time.

ACCA Association of Chartered Certified Accountants

Professional qualifications

“I have worked with BPP for almost ten years and havefound it to be a rewarding and enjoyable partnership. Theresults speak for themselves – consistently high first-timepass rates and dozens of ACCA graduates!”

Gavin Flook, Partner in charge,Audit & Advisory Services

Deloitte.

Central Europe




ACCA’s syllabus summary

There are a total of 14 exams and these are summarised in this table.

EXAMS NOTES

PROFESSIONAL (5 exams in total)

OPTIONS MODULE

P7 Advanced audit and assurance

P6 Advanced taxation Normally no BPP course for P6 owing to a lack of demand

P5 Advanced performance management

P4 Advanced financial management

ESSENTIALS MODULE

P3 Business analysis

P2 Corporate reporting

P1 Professional accountant An online ethics module should also be done at this stage.

FUNDAMENTALS (9 exams in total)

SKILLS MODULE

F9 Financial management

F8 Audit and assurance

F7 Financial reporting

F6 Taxation

F5 Performance management

F4 Corporate and business law

KNOWLEDGE MODULE

F3 Financial accounting

F2 Management accounting

F1 Accountant in business Since most Slovenian ACCA students have an exemption,this course is not normally available.

You are allowed to attempt a maximum of four exams in any exam session. Themodules must be attempted in order but the exams within each module can beattempted in any order.

More information is available from ACCA’s website www.accaglobal.com

* The nearest computer based exam centre is the BPP office in Bratislava.

Professional qualifications


any 2

all 3

Your universitydegree may giveyou exemptionsfrom theseexams.




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† Course notes are only provided for students attending courses. They are not available for separate purchase.

Helping you with your career

How BPP can help you to pass

BPP Professional Education in Slovenia offers coursesfor the December ACCA examination session.

BPP courses are usually split into two phases.

• Introductory – this course introduces you to thebasics and starts you on the main topics. In class,tutors work through the course notes explaining theconcepts and demonstrating techniques usinglecture examples. Knowledge is consolidated by

practising questions in the course note’s questionbank.

• Revision – this part of the course refreshes yourknowledge closer to the ACCA exam and gives youplenty of practice and demonstration of exam stylequestions. The focus is on understanding what theexaminer wants from you making sure that you candeliver under the time constraints of the exam.

Course materials

To support you with your study the followingmaterials are available.

• Course notes* – this is a summary of the topicsthat will be covered during the course. Yourtutor will work through these illustrating thetopics with lecture examples.

• Study text – this is an ACCA approved book explaining all of the topics in the exam syllabusin depth and complements the course notes.

• i-learn – this CD package gives you theflexibility to work through a computer basedtutorial.

• Practice and revision kit – this book of examstandard questions is used during the revisioncourse to help you to perfect your examtechnique.

• i-pass – this CD is packed full of interactivequestions to help you test the level of yourknowledge.

• Passcards – this pocket sized booklet helps youto study on the move with simple summaries of the subjects.

• Learn online – this internet learning system

gives you more flexibility.

Practice makes perfect

Course attendants have the opportunity to sit apractice exam after the introductory course. This givesyou the chance to test the level of your understandingand make sure that your studies are on track.

A mock exam after the revision course helps toprepare you for the real exam.

Your answers are marked by the tutors and feedback isgiven to help you to improve on your performance.

Tutor support is also available by e-mail right up to theday you sit your exam.





Helping you to achieve your potential

Professional developmentDeveloping your skills

BPP Professional Education can help you tomaintain and build your skills. We deliver anextensive programme of courses designed toassist you in developing your career.

Our courses vary from technical training throughto management training, all intended to give

you the tools to be more effective in your work place.

Technical training

Today’s business professionals are expected tobe technically up-to-date and it can be difficultfitting self study into an existing hectic schedule.BPP’s courses can help you keep up with currentissues.

Examples of courses that we can provide for your

company are:• IFRS updates

• US GAAP updates

• Basel II

• Sarbanes Oxley

• ACCA’s Diploma in International Financial

Reporting (DipIFR)

Personal development

To succeed in your career, it is notenough to be technically competent.

You also need to be able to meetdeadlines, work effectively with yourcolleagues and customers and grow

your business.

BPP can help you with these courses:

• Effective presentation skills

• Negotiation skills

• Time management

• How to interview job candidates

• Undertaking appraisals for professionalstaff

• Understanding finance for non-finance

professionals

Supporting you

For our full list of courses see

www.bppprofessionaldevelopment.com




Professionals teaching professionals

Rosauro Aala MA DipCG FCA

Ros Aala worked in audit with PricewaterhouseCoopers in Plymouth, UK and qualified as a member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales (ICAEW) in 1996. He traveled extensively with PwC on assignments in theUnited Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, Kazakhstan and South Africa as well as working in their training department in

London, where he developed internal accounting, audit and personal development training courses. Ros has hadextensive internal audit experience in the public sector and in the private sector. He joined the BPP team in 2000.

Ros teaches these subjects

• International financial reporting standards (IFRS)

• Certified internal auditor (CIA) qualification

• Business strategy

• Leadership skills for business

BPP authors and tutors are all qualified in theprofessions for which they write or teach.

The following tutors teach in Slovenia.

Tatiana is ACCA qualified and worked in the financial services group of KPMG. She has experience with the audit of banks, leasing companies and asset management funds. Before moving to the accounting profession Tatiana worked inthe research department of ING Bank. She joined BPP in 2005.

Tatiana teaches these subjects:

• Basel II

• Understanding leases

• Management accounting

• Finance

Erica Gibbon BA ACA

Erica Gibbon, ICAEW member, qualified in the audit department and the corporate tax group with BDO Binder Hamlynin Manchester, UK. In 1994 Erica moved to Romania where she became management accountant and human resourcemanager for PricewaterhouseCoopers. There she was responsible for delivering audit, accounting and human resourcetraining for several PwC offices around European. In 1999 she joined BPP.

Erica teaches these subjects


• Taxation

• Human resource management

• Effective presentation skills for professionals




Helping you to achieve your potential

Richard Gibbon BA FCA Richard Gibbon is a Fellow of the ICAEW qualifying with PricewaterhouseCoopers in Manchester, UK. He moved toPwC Romania in 1994 as senior manager of the audit & valuation department, responsible for a range of privatisationprojects and several international manufacturing clients. Promotion to managing director of PwC in Kazakhstanfollowed. Richard joined BPP in 1999 and is the director for BPP’s operation outside the UK.

Richard teaches these subjects

• Budgeting

• Business valuation techniques

• Managing foreign exchange and interest rate risks

Michal Kopper ACCA

Michal joined the financial services group of KPMG in 2002. Before joining BPP, Michal worked as financial controllerfor Amslico AIG Life, a subsidiary of American Insurance Group Inc. He was responsible for the preparation of groupreporting packages, statutory reports and financial statements. Michal has extensive experience with the financialservices sector, advertising businesses and media agencies.

Michal teaches these subjects:


• Auditing• US GAAP

• Sarbanes Oxley

• Accounting for insurance professionals

Attila Csutora ACCA

Attila graduated from the University of Miskolc as a German teacher in 1999 and later in business economics in 2002.He joined the audit department of Deloitte and worked as an auditor for three years. Attila earned the ACCAqualification during this time and joined BPP in 2005.

Attila teaches these subjects:

• Corporate and business law


• US GAAP

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