EXAMINERS

APPROACH:

P6 UK,

Advanced
Taxation

WHERE THE
PAPER FITS?

Professional Level
(7 papers in total)

Essentials (3 papers)
Options (2 from 4 papers)
P4 Advanced Financial Management (AFM)
P5 Advanced Performance Management (APM)

P6 Advanced Taxation (ATX)

P7 Advanced Audit and Assurance (AAA)

Fundamentals
9 papers in total

LINKS TO OTHER
PARTS OF THE
QUALIFICATION?

F6
P1
PER

OVERALL
CONCEPT?

In this world nothing is certain but death and taxes.

Benjamin Franklin

P6

CONTENT?

Section A
Section B

Section C
Section D

EXAM
STRUCTURE?

3 hours
+15 mins
Discursive and
computational

Professional Level P6
Section A

Section B

Two questions

Two from three

questions

Case studies

Scenarios

Across syllabus

Discrete syllabus areas

(Several parts)

(Two or three parts)

EXAM
FEATURES?

Ethics?

Style?

Professional
marks?

Rule of And?

Cognitive level?

EXAM TIPS

Key strategy

1-

Tip
Knowledge and
understanding!

2 - Time allocation!
Tip 3 - Think before
Tip

you write!

Time management
Application to facts
Question practice

EXAM PITFALLS

123-

Pitfall
Lack of F6
knowledge!
Pitfall
Poor time
management!
Pitfall
Failing to
focus on the requirements!

Relevant information
Bullet lists
Organised approach

Exam
Examiners
Review
reports
Board

TO
CONCLUDE

Read!
Understand!
Answer!