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Sfm how to score well???

Lucky Jain (student) (210 Points)

08 March 2013

SFM: has always been a tuff paper for me...

I fear it like hell now can anyone tell me how to go about preparing sfm???

ive my may attempt...

left with group one ...

im a theory oriented student

n I find it tuff to score even 40 in mafa...

please help...

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Ganeshbabu K (Audit and Tax Advisory) (48559 Points)
Replied 08 March 2013

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hi bro,MAFA is not a tuff nut to crack,u still have good tym to master it,just follow combination of s.d bala and jb gupta,dont waste much of tym on capital budgeting,b thru wid bond valuation,derivative,forex,amalgamation and demerger u can club wid accounts and leasing is also important,MAFA is all abt formulas and logic...............

try to b a bit versed wid stock market............................

i can suggest so because i have cleared ca final grp 1.

all the best.................................

CA Ashish Pathak (Employed at Cipla Ltd.) (2779 Points)
Replied 17 March 2013

Hey Lucky, I agree with the above comment by Member account deleted. Even I suggest you to dont waste time on cap budg. Cap budg is very time consuming and also there is no guarantee that we will be able to solve it perfectly in exam. Rather concentrate on other chapters. Chapters like bond valuation, dividend policy, forex, mergers acqui. are easy and also a good amount of questions are from these chapters. Also, as you said that you are good in theory then simply mug up the theory of Sfm given in the practise manual of insti. No need to refer any other book for theory. You can check and see that all the theory questions in last few attempts are from practise manual. And you should keep this in mind that the suggested guideline answers published by Icai for the purpose of evaluation of answer papers have the text of theory answers exactly same as given in the Insti. modules. So you can score full marks in theory by studying it from the practise manual of insti. See, the last question of Sfm is a theory question of 16marks. So by attempting this question perfectly you can reserve at least 14marks for yourself. And apart from that there are other theory questions in sub parts of some of the questions. On average you can expect around 25-30marks theory questions in Sfm. And apart from these theory questions if you can correctly solve just few more practical questions then you can easily cross the 40s deadline. One of my friend who corrected the Sfm paper of last attempt told me that in Sfm, even if you have not solved a question completely but have written formula of it then also they award step marking for the formula. So do attempt all the questions in exam (doesnt matter you know it or not) and do write the formulas properly. Apart from the above suggestions, I want to tell you that Sfm is not so tough as it seems to you. Study hard, practise the practical questions as much as possible. Chapters like forex, dividend policy, M&A, valuation, right shares, mutual funds are really managable. Trust me, all you need to do is to overcome this apprehension about the practical aspects of sfm and you will find that sfm is quite managable. Happy studying. Good Luck.