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ISSUE 63
JANUARY 2015
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Contents Issue 63 January 2015
UPFRONT Welcome to Vital Happy New Year!
You and your views Tell us what you've been up t
In review: 10 highlights 1 TAXING TIMES
UPFRONT icaew.com/ ICAEW Students
The graph A statistical portrait of all things AC
UPFRONT There's no such t
WHAT GETS YOUR GOAT? Four ACA students were asked
UPFRONT Revision culture: something needs t
WHAT'S YOUR STUDY STYLE? Different revision metho
STUDY R EVISION QU IZ 3
NEW YEAR TAX SPECIAL What has changed in the
STU DY TA X UPDATE REMEMBER… if you're sitt
While most ACA exam papers challenge
STUDY BUS INESS STRATEGY term, Tasty-Choc
news and views. economia online has all the news
STUDY E XAM TECH N IQUE TICK, TOCK Time
MATTHEW OLIVER 2007 The year he join
COVER STORY PHOTOGRAPHY: TER
“In the past I have sometimes worked too hard. If
COVER STORY skills. I had to work out
DOES IT PAY TO BE THE TORTOISE OR THE When it
WORK AMBITION SP ECIAL HARE? “If you can
How to write them, revise them and why you need t
WORK CARE ER PLANS ALL MAPPED OUT? dozens of yo
Sitting the ICAEW Case S
WO RK CLIENT MEETINGS Do your preparati
It may sound like hippy-dippy therapy or another
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LIF E The last word Auditor Osama Rabbani fo
Ambition is... charting a QHZƝQDQFLDO landscape.
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