The Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA) is the global body for professional accountants. With over 100 years of providing world-class accounting and finance qualifications, the ACCA has significantly raised its international profile in recent years and now supports a BSc (Hons) in Applied Accounting and an MBA.BPP Learning Media is an ACCA Official Publisher. Paper P5 Advanced Performance Management is an optional paper at Professional level. It builds on the performance management techniques introduced in Paper F5. There is also a significant element of strategic thinking and thus P5 has links with paper P3 Business Analysis. The syllabus looks at external factors that affect the organisation's performance such as stakeholders. Internal factors are also considered including the design features of effective performance management information and monitoring systems. Ethics is introduced as a key ACCA topic. Finally, the syllabus considers the impact of current developments in management accounting and performance management on organisational performance.The P5 Revision Kit contains the pilot paper and subject-specific questions covering the syllabus, including many from past exams. The Kit is full of good advice and features to aid your question practice. Read the section on Passing P5 which is subject-specific guidance on tackling the exam. There are plenty of written questions to test your application and evaluation of knowledge at this level. The examiner likes to examine performance measures so there are several exam-standard numerical questions too. Also read the examiner's own comments on past questions as well as his own answers at the back of the Kit.BPP Learning Media is the publisher of choice for many ACCA students and tuition providers worldwide. Join them and plug into a world of expertise in ACCA exams.