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• # 112884
• Tue 26 Apr 2016 04:27 PM

Hi All,

Apologies if I am being a little dim it could be the pregnancy making me a little simple, but what is the difference between the manual study text books and the computerised study text books?

I am currently studying level 2 have just passed the B1 exam and intend on doing B2 and B3 this week, and have worked off the manual book. I have worked in finance for 12 years and use Sage everyday so only really want to books to recap my mind on the basics.

Many Thanks

Karla

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• # 112888
• Wed 27 Apr 2016 08:21 AM

The Manual Study guides cover the principles and practices using paper/spreadsheets processes.

The Computerised Study guides show how to do the same processes using Accounting Software such as Sage/Quickbooks.

The ICB exams for Level 3 and up include sections that require submission of reports from a software package (most are suitable - I used Sage provided by the training provider)

• Ian

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• # 112890
• Wed 27 Apr 2016 01:07 PM

From my experience, I gained more from the mock examinations and comparing my results to the answer bank supplied than I did from studying the Kaplan books for the computeriesed elements. I'm not using Sage for the exams so I found it a bit hard going following the books but the L2 exams were geared towards generic reports that could be produced by non-Sage software. For L3 I'm studying the manual sudy text and then I'm going to try the mocks for the computeriesed before buying the Computerised Study Text. Hopefully this will work out as if not and I genuinly feel like I've struggled through, I'll buy the Computerised Text Study and try again.

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