ACCA F4 Corporate and Business Law

Nature of the ACCA F4 paper

ACCA F4 Paper – Corporate and Business Law – aims to develop an understanding of
the workings of a legal system with particular reference to the law relating to business.
It is worth remembering that this is a law exam for accountants – it is NOT
a law exam for lawyers. As such, it is intended to prepare students so they
may recognise situations where specialist legal advice should be sought.

Structure of the ACCA F4 paper

The exam will be a two-hour paper, with all questions being compulsory.
There will be two sections to the exam:
Section A will comprise 25 objective test questions of 2 marks each, and 20 objective test questions of 1 mark each.
Section B will comprise five 6 mark multi-task questions.

Emphasis of the ACCA F4 exam

Major areas covered in exams are administration as an alternative dispute remedy, sale of goods law and company law. Typically 5 or 6 questions in each exam are from these 3 areas.
In the scenario questions, the examiner is looking for a student’s ability to establish the area of law involved, analyse the problem, identify the general principles of law relevant to the question and then apply those principles to the situation in the question, often with the requirement of giving advice to one or more of the parties involved.