*BPP Professional Education*
BPP Professional Education is a company that provides training and resource materials to students; in order to aid them earning the required qualifications they need in order to progress through the business environment.
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Advantages: Excellent Course Material - good Price Disadvantages: Only available in 23 locations in the UK
...Professional Education*
BPP Professional Education is a company that provides training and resource materials to students; in order to aid them earning the required qualifications they need in order to progress through the business environment.
BPP offer courses and materials for several areas of business, including Accountancy, Tax and Law. In fact, according to their website they train and assist in more qualifications ... ...course, I chose to use BPP as my primary source of course materials, and they didn’t fail me. I successfully passed all units of this course and am now a qualified Accounting Technician.
Since then I have debated as to whether to continue my education with either CIMA (Chartered Institute of Management Accountants) or ACCA (Association of Chartered Certified Accountants), and eventually chose ACCA. As my studies are to begin in September ... more
*BPP Professional Education*
BPP Professional Education is a company that provides training and resource materials to students; in order to aid them earning the required qualifications they need in order to progress through the business environment.
BPP offer courses and materials for several areas of business, including Accountancy, Tax and Law. In fact, according to their website they train and assist in more qualifications than any other in the world.
*Personal Experience*
In 2002 I finished studying for my A.A.T. (Association of Accounting Technicians), and throughout the three-year course, I chose to use BPP as my primary source of course materials, and they didn’t fail me. I successfully passed all units of this course and am now a qualified Accounting Technician.
Since then I have debated as to whether to continue my education with either CIMA (Chartered Institute of Management Accountants) or ACCA (Association of Chartered Certified Accountants), and eventually chose ACCA. As my studies are to begin in September 04, I thought it wise to begin preparing myself for the hard work ahead of me, and based on my previous experience with BPP chose to again use their courses and material.
*BPP Accountancy Course*
BPP offer courses for a number of accountancy qualifications including AAT, CIMA, AAT, ATT (Association of Taxation Technicians) and CTA (Chartered Tax Advisor), along with more regional based qualifications.
In order to access the information from BPP of the availability of courses, you can opt to choose for a brochure to be delivered to your home address, or you can browse their excellent Internet site.
With respect to these qualifications, there are a number of courses you can opt to choose from. These include, but are not limited to;
1. Classroom Courses 2. Booster Days 3. Computer Based Exams 4. Distance Learning 5. Full-time Courses 6. Home Study
I am choosing to study my first year of ACCA via the home study route, with the addition of a couple of revision courses offered by BPP.
*Home Study Course*
The Home Study Course is as intensive as a classroom based course, but you need to be highly motivated to ensure you stay on top of the syllabus work. Thankfully BPP have on hand, support from over 60 experts that are available for contact during the course.
The Home Study course also includes the following
1. Study Programme – This is the guide to the course, and is split into several manageable sections, designed specifically to help you through your studies. Each section is given a high, medium, or low priority in order to help you maximise your study time. 2. Study Text – Textbooks are also provided on the course, and throughout the text include references to exam tips and quick quizzes. 3. Multiple Choice Question Cards – for the first two papers in ACCA, you are provided with a bank of cards, which are an excellent revision tool. 4. Unique i-Pass CD-ROMS – This is a new unique addition to the home study course, and they are designed to test your knowledge and help perfect your exam technique, as they are quite literally crammed full practise tests. 5. Practice and Revision Kit - A helpful textbook, offering you a more manual approach to exam questions and answers.
As you can see, you are provided with a large amount of course material and revision guides all included in the price of a course.
*Classroom Course*
In order to choose the best-taught course for your schedule, the classroom courses are offered in a variety of timescales:
And with these courses you will receive the following; Professional teaching, printed course notes, tutor support and assessment, Interactive text, Course Notes and for those interested free tea and coffee!
BPP also recommend that for students following the taught courses, that they conclude their course with a revision course.
*Course Price*
ACCA home Study courses are currently being offered for GBP104.95 per paper, a price consistent throughout the many papers required to pass.
In comparison the Classroom course is between GBP295.00 and GBP345.00. Although this may appear to be a considerably saving, its is of course dependant on how you choose to study and what option works best for you. For example, my AAT was earned via attending a local college, however during the last year I found that whilst working from home, I was producing considerably better results and I felt happier in my working environment.
All course prices can be found on BPP Professional Educations website, at www.bpp.com, and when choosing a classroom course you are required to pick the study centre of your choice.
*Study Centres*
For ACCA students there are over 20 centres to choose from in the UK and Ireland, and a further 5 in Europe. For alternative qualifications this does vary, for example for AAT BPP offer a choice of 18 locations in the UK.
Study centres are located throughout the UK and Ireland, for example in Dublin, Glasgow, Reading and Manchester, to name but a few, so should be easily accessible for the majority of students.
*Why Choose BPP?*
According to the BPP website, Pass rates for BPP students are consistently higher than those achieved by other UK students, and their course material used by more colleges in the UK than any other.
They offer a wide variety of courses, as detailed above, and there is flexibility to courses for example it is acceptable to choose between a mixture of self-taught courses and classroom based courses throughout your studying.
Personally I find the BPP course material extremely easy to use, and a refreshing change from other companies. I used their books all through my AAT, and will continue to do so through my ACCA. They offer consistent good advice, including exam tips, and several exam papers and revision guides to practise from.
Advantages: easy to learn and read what ever you want. Disadvantages: little expensive.
...of accounting i learn from bpp very quickly and easily.
According to my research about Bpp more.
BPP Professional Education is about developing careers. The company that trains people for the qualifications they need to become business professionals. Thousands of accountants, tax practitioners, lawyers, insolvency practitioners, actuaries, financial services professionals, marketing practitioners and MBAs have gained their qualifications studying ... ...Serving the client
BPP is the qualifications trainer of choice to many of the world's leading professional service firms. BPP's course structures, incorporating the use of innovative learning materials and teaching strategies, are carefully designed around the needs of the client. Combined with their high pass rates - thus minimising retakes - BPP offers clients the most cost-effective use of qualifications training investment. Professionals training ...
Mwq5 08.09.2008
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Advantages: Home and Classroom Study, Competitive Prices Disadvantages: Some mistakes in the texts
...ones for me. BPP provide training for many types of professional certifications including AAT, CIMA, ACCA, ICAS and MBA, even certain BSc courses. Thousands of people have already completed their learning and are looking forward to a brighter future.
I think the thing that drew me most to BPP was the option of their home study package. Working full time and living a fair distance out of London (meaning a long commute) meant that I would have found ... ...course. Although BPP do also offer full time and part time classroom courses as well.
So after discussion with my manager we both decided that completing my studies through BPP seemed the best option. I found that the quality of information regarding my course before I enrolled was very good and this gave me a full understanding of what the course involved before I registered. I was impressed with the cost, £495 for all the books, study materials ...
TheHairyGodmother 08.01.2007
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BPP offer a range of courses to help students pass various accountancy qualifications(these are CIMA, ACCA, ICAEW, AAT and various insolvency qualifications). They also offer law, marketing and Human Resources help. There are 23 centres across the UK where you can study.
BPP offers a variety of different courses - subject courses and revision courses. The subject courses are around 400 pounds each and last three days. Revision course are closer ... ...you don't get any other BPP material before a course you absolutely must have these, they are a work of pure genius.
I would recommend you go on the courses if you company will pay, if not it is probably better to just get the study material(unless you are rich).
Finally yt must work as I have passed all my CIMA exams using BPP material.
Exam centres are currently at the following locations.
Aberdeen
Birmingham
Bristol
Cambridge
Cardiff
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Fantasyman 27.10.2004
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Advantages: Wide range of courses, dates, locations and people! Disadvantages: None yet...
I have now studied with BPP for nearly two years, and so far they have got me through my exams all first time.
They offer a wide range of courses, and a well defined 'path to success'. Their standard study courses are often packed into a short times, but the syllabus is well covered and the lecturers experienced in the subject and area, meaning that they apply the knowledge to get you through the exams, apply it to real life, and make it more interesting. ... ...and getting past the exams. BPP offer a variety of dates and courses (some just questions, some refresher/question courses) both in the week and at weekend. They also fully debrief and explain answers, and select to ensure yo are well prepared for the exam.
They also do question days, which are one day courses, where you sit an exam in exam conditions, to time. Each question is then individually marked by a professional marker, and debriefed by ...
gazza166 24.05.2008
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...(CIMA;ACCA;CIPFA;AAT) help is always needed. BPP do various training courses around the country. They give you summarised notes from the textbook, so that there is no need to trail through the textbook. Here is a sample of some of the courses that they provide.
There are Feeder Courses (Courses about four months before the exams) where the tutors go through the notes, highlighting different areas and adding "meat" to the notes. Class discussion ... ...the course which is normally two or three days long you can phone the tutor at any time if you have any problems, they give you their work and home number for your convenience. There are course exams that you can do, and send in to be marked, to ensure that you are on the right track.
There are Standard Revision Courses (Courses about a month before the exams). Here they go through notes again, but highlight areas that they think will be in the ...
Saucy-Sue 30.08.2000
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