Business Planning: Banking 2023 Examiner Tips
Listening carefully to the examiners provides some of the best possible advice on how to pass the ACA Business Planning: Banking paper. Here you can read our summary of the most important points passed on to tutors at the 2023 Tutor Conference.
Examiner Tips
The examiners will try to vary the role of the candidate’s “character” from sitting to sitting to give variety.
The exam paper will start to include more ESG: this will create FR marks in relation to managing climate change.
Spending a lot of time on audit element does affect the rest of the paper.
Credit analysis (Q2) being done worse than usual with a focus on insignificant facts: for example, looking at inventory days for a delivery company (which does not produce anything and so would not need to worry about what stock it is holding as it is a services company).
Bullet points may get some credit but won’t get enough detail in so are not ideal.
In Ethics, many candidates take an “end of the world” or “Armageddon” approach … the Ethics element will always be more nuanced than this.
There will not necessarily be marks for regulatory capital technical content in every exam.
All these tips and ideas are reflected in the advice for our BPB on-demand course.
