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Business Planning: Taxation

In the Business Planning: Taxation exam, you will apply technical knowledge and professional skills to identify and resolve taxation issues that arise in the context of preparing tax computations and to advise on tax-efficient strategies for businesses and individuals. The exam is 2.5 hours and will consist of three questions covering a range of taxes as well as tax planning. The exam is available in March, June, September, and December. You have a maximum of four attempts at this exam.

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Important information for exams 2024

Following the Chancellor’s announcements relating to Class 1 primary National Insurance Contributions in the Autumn Statement (23 November 2023), we can update you as follows in relation to learning materials and the approach for ICAEW Tax exams during 2024.

All students will be expected to answer exam questions based on the information in the 2024 learning materials.

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We're not going to lie ... BPT is not very nice. Arguably the most complex ACA paper from a technical point of view (yes, even more so than the Advanced Level), things are not made any easier by the fact that the examiners do not tell you how many marks are available for each part of the question paper! Doesn't exactly help with time management. BPT is also tricky because it is a mixture of narrative and calculations (don't overdo the calculations aspects, either in your revision or during the exam: most of the marks are actually for the narrative side of things). However, at least BPT is an open-book exam, so you can at least take some hopefully useful resources (including ours!) into the exam with you. Our popular BPT Exam Room Notes PDF publication provides alphabetically-organised, quick reference notes on all key BPT areas. Originally intended as a resource aimed at exam day (hence the name!), many students report that our BPT Exam Room Notes PDF was actually very useful in the pre-exam phase because they found it easy to locate the content. It seems pretty obvious to us that things are easier if your notes are alphabetically organised but unfortunately the ICAEW Workbook is organised primarily by chapter, so it isn't always so easy to use. We are pleased to announce that we can now offer our BPT Exam Room Notes PDF as an instant download so no more waiting around to receive the document (and no more frustrations with Junk Mail folders either!). Just click the link further down the page to make a purchase. We draw on this content and knowledge in our BPT Masterclass on-demand video course, which focuses on tutor-narrated discussions of our Skeleton Notes (notes based on past paper model answers) so that you can learn the patterns. The course is provided with a full Pass Guarantee (which may seem brave of us since this is after all BPT, but with a 100% pass rate for the course in 2021, 98% in 2022 and 99% in 2023, we are not too worried!). As with all the Professional Level ACA papers, it is vital that you use resources that force you to engage actively with the content: simply reading and note-taking is very unlikely to get the content into your brain! So for BPT, we offer our Rapid Revision Question Bank book which offers over a thousand short-form questions to help you learn both the narrative and number content through a self-test format. Actively testing your knowledge through questions is always the best way to deal with the volume of narrative content in this kind of paper. We can also offer our Technique Improvement Service to review your Mock practice attempts to unlock further valuable marks through improvements in writing style, interpretation of the question and other factors. Scroll down the page to learn more about our BPT offering.

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Our Rapid Revision Question Banks provide hundreds of short-form questions to help you learning in a 100% active way, maximising the use of your scarce study time.

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Contains over 1,000 short-form questions to promote active learning.

The 2024 edition of our RRQB is the twelfth edition of the book so you will benefit from a wide range of question types which we have developed over the years.

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To keep you engaged with our technical revision and exam technique lectures, our BPT Masterclass on-demand course includes interactive questions mixed into the videos. This ensures that you fully absorb the key learning points from each segment of the course. Like all our Professional Level on-demand courses, as we are so confident that our technique works, our BPT Masterclass on-demand course is provided with a full money-back Pass Guarantee. So provided that you purchase the course at least 3 weeks before exam day and that you complete all content at least once (ideally more!), we will provide a full refund of your course fee if you do not pass your exam in 2024!

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Our BPT Masterclass on-demand course includes over 20 hours of video content, all carefully organised to focus on one element of the syllabus at a time, reducing overwhelm and helping you focus your studies.

Students who used the 2023 edition of our BPT Masterclass on-demand course had a 99% pass rate! So we have no problem offering a full money-back Pass Guarantee on our BPT Masterclass on-demand course

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Often, students do not achieve their full potential in an ACA paper because they have not been told how to write, how to manage their time and how the marking works. Our Technique Improvement Service (TIS) provides detailed, personalised reviews of your attempts at ICAEW Mocks or past papers.

Writing style

You will receive advice on how to shorten or lengthen your writing style to ensure that you are picking up the marks you deserve.

Time management

You will receive advice on whether you are allocating your scarce answering time correctly through our expert knowledge of the markscheme and how marks are awarded in practice.

Technique Advice Report

To really drive home our advice, we will provide you with a 2-3 page Technique Advice Report on each paper submitted. This includes our popular "5 Top Tips to Improve".

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Thanks for the feedback, which is really useful and definitely highlighted some key points I need to work on. I really do appreciate the work done which has given me some reassurance. Thanks again for all your support: this has enabled me to tackle this exam from a different angle, which I would not have been able to do with the other providers.

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Learn how to ace the aca certificate level exams, financial accounting and reporting (far) , classroom tuition, online tuition, business planning: tax (bpt).

Our BPT tuition is extremely exam focused and once a topic has been taught, we will develop your exam technique by teaching you the most effective way to answer exam questions on that topic. The learning strategies and exam techniques you will be taught resulted in your tutor winning an ICAEW prize and several of our students scoring over 90%. Notably, our two highest BPT scores (95% and 96%) were both achieved by resit students, proving that our guidance and tutoring skills create a vast level of improvement in student exam performance. This tuition approach has resulted in several of our students also winning prizes.

You can watch the course introduction and  FREE SAMPLE CLASSES   below.

BPT MATERIALS AND OPEN BOOK NOTES

O ur prize-winning ACA tutor Kieran Doe has developed our unique BPT materials which include technical notes specifically designed for use in the exam, master plans and exam technique guidance.

Technical Notes

Our BPT technical notes concisely summarise the technical content so that you can quickly look up the information you need in the exam. The notes include a 'Common Exam Scenario' section which has reminders of the points to consider including in your answer for the most frequently examined scenarios (e.g. capital disposal planning, incorporation, exiting a business, FICs). ​ ​

A small sample is included below.

Master Plan

To ensure that you use your study time as effectively as possible, we have broken the syllabus down into examinable topics so that you can allocate your time to specific examinable topics. For each topic, we have listed the recent past exam questions which examined the topic.

Exam Technique Guidance

We have included our valuable exam technique guidance which contains detailed advice on how you should approach common exam questions in order to score top mark s. ​​​​

PAYMENT AND DELIVERY

The price of our BPT  materials is £45. You can purchase using a credit or debit card below. 

You will receive an email containing a link to download the PDF document within 5 minutes of placing your order. You may print the document for your sole use.

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OUR PRIZE-WINNING TECHNIQUE

Each class focuses on a frequently examined topic and explains the key technical concepts in a simplified way, before demonstrating the optimal exam technique by working through recent pas t exam questions in full. Your tutor will teach you the most efficient way to read, interpret and analyse the exam paper and most importantly, the specific technique you should use when typing your answer. This includes practical advice on how to make effective use of your open book when answering questions.

Having understood the technical content and exactly how you should be approaching a particular type of BPT exam question, you can then go and attempt similar past exam questions to put these prize-winning exam technique skills to the test and watch your marks drastically improve - hopefully you will join our growing list of prize winners!

PAYMENT AND ACCESS

You can subscribe to all the classes for £350  and enjoy a viewing period of 12 months.

Please click  HERE  to purchase. Once payment has been made, you can view the full course  HERE . ​

Please note that our open book notes are sold separately.

​ ​ PASS GUARANTEE 

The 12 month access period should give you plenty of time to sit and pass the BPT  exam. However, if you need longer, we will gladly extend your access at no extra cost to you. This includes access to any additional c ontent we upload to the course as a result of syllabus changes. 

COURSE STRUCTURE ​

The course is structured so that it covers each examinable area and each type of BPT exam question. You can find a list of the classes on the course structure structure document below. The course also includes 14 TC revision classes to refresh you on brought forward content. 

WHAT STUDENTS SAY

Having failed BPT with 54%, Kieran helped me increase my mark to 96%! He explained everything so clearly and the exam technique sessions were particularly valuable. He went through past paper questions, advising how to approach them, where to pick up easy marks and how to lay out the answers. I would definitely recommend ACA Masters!

(BPT resit student who passed first time with us with a score of 96%)