Posted by The Team at Brand Financial Training on July 9, 2024 in Newsletter
9 July 2024
Ahh, summer!
The summer is finally upon us! We hope you’ve been enjoying the recent nice weather, we know we certainly have. Work is underway for the tax year updates, if you’ve recently bought materials from us but won’t be sitting your exam until September, then keep reading – there’s some important information for you below.
We also wanted to say a big thank you to all of our customers. Our chosen charity to support in 2024 is still the Trussell Trust, and we are continuing to make monthly donations to them, so that they can continue the essential work that they do. This wouldn’t be possible without you, our customers. You can read more about what the Trussell Trust do on their website.
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The price/earnings ratio is a quick way to see if a share you’re interested in is cheap or not. Find out how to calculate this ratio and learn what it means – useful for your CII AF4, AF5, J10, J12, R02 or R06 exam revision.
If you find it hard to keep your nose in your text book and are tempted by every little ping of the mobile phone, use these three strategies to minimise distractions and maintain focus on the task at hand.
The change in examinable tax year is just around the corner! If you’ve recently bought resources from us but won’t be sitting your exam until September, you can request updated versions of those resources, once they have gone through the tax year update process.
The CII update their syllabus every September to reflect most recent changes, so this is things like rates of tax and allowances, updated figures for state benefits, and any changes in regulation since the previous year’s edition. So, we go through the same process here at Brand Financial Training, and we also update our resources to make sure they are fully reflective of any changes that the CII has made within their examinable syllabus.
However, please do note that we only make changes to update our resources to be applicable to the next examinable tax year, and to change any question styles as specified within the exam guide from the CII – we don’t rewrite our resources from scratch each year.
For most of our resources, you can request the next examinable tax year’s version once these are available, if you made a purchase as the current 23/24 examinable tax year was coming to an end. We will email you once you can request this, at the end of August.
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Passing your CII exam can seem like a struggle, especially when there is so much content to learn. Our revision notes are for when you are further along with your exam studies and are now ready to focus on a streamlined version of the exam content combined with self-test questions, to meet the requirements of the CII learning outcomes and exam syllabus.
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Here’s a reminder that the CII update their study texts throughout the examinable year to either incorporate new legislations, correct errors, or clarify information. Many candidates aren’t aware of this, which can result in candidates studying out-of-date information.
To find out if you have the most up-to-date information, visit the CII website, navigate to your chosen exam and click on ‘learning solutions update’ in the ‘Unit updates’ section in the sidebar.
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