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Advanced Performance Management (APM)
10 sections available · 33 chapters available
Free Advanced Performance Management (APM) study notes for ACCA students. Each chapter below covers a key topic with worked examples and practice prompts you can take into the thinka app.
A. Strategic management and value creation
Strategic management accounting and strategic models
Organisational structure, culture and change
Performance hierarchy, CSFs and KPIs
Financial performance measurement
Divisional and managerial performance measures
Non-financial performance measurement
Sustainability and environmental management accounting
A. Strategic planning and control
B. Performance optimisation
Budgetary planning and control
Performance, reward and human resource management
Management styles, accountability and behavioural effects
Value chain, VBM, ABM and business process re-engineering
Quality and cost management techniques
Performance measurement in service businesses
Not-for-profit organisations and value for money
Complex business structures, alliances and SLAs
B. Performance management information systems and developments in technology
C. Performance reporting
Evaluating management reports
Data visualisation techniques
Misleading presentation of numerical data
Narrative commentary in performance reports
C. Strategic performance measurement
D. Performance evaluation
D. Data science and technology for performance and insights
IT developments and performance management systems
ERPS, KMS and CRMS
Data silos, systems security and lean information
Big data and data science methods
Methods of data analysis and regression
Machine learning, AI and data ethics
E. Professional skills
Communication
Analysis and evaluation
Scepticism
Commercial acumen
F. Employability and technology skills
Use computer technology to efficiently access and manipulate relevant information
Work on relevant response options, using available functions and technology, as would be required in the workplace
Navigate windows and computer screens to create and amend responses to exam requirements, using appropriate tools
Present data and information effectively, using the appropriate tools
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