CIMA F1 Financial Operations

The core objectives of Paper F1 are the preparation of the full financial statements for a single company and the principal consolidated financial statements for a simple group. Coverage of a wide range of international standards is implicit in these objectives, as specified in the paper’s content. Similarly, understanding the regulatory and ethical context of financial reporting, covered in the paper, is vital to ensuring that financial statements meet users’ needs. Principles of taxation are included, not only to support accounting for taxes in financial statements, but also as a basis for examining the role of tax in financial analysis and decision-making within subsequent papers (Paper F2 Financial Management and Paper F3 Financial Strategy).

Each unit is assessed by an externally set examination where a minimum of 50% of the marks are required in order to pass.