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*** F5 March 2016 Exam was.. Instant Poll and comments ***

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  • March 9, 2016 at 10:37 am #304693
    opentuition_team
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    Please vote in our Instant Polls about the F5 March 2016 Exam.




    Post your comments about F5 exam below

    March 9, 2016 at 4:49 pm #304795
    kundan123
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    there was no questions on ABC , THROUPUT ACC, OR TRASFER PRICING IN WRITING QUESTIONS

    March 9, 2016 at 5:00 pm #304803
    cynthiastephanie
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    The questions was unexpectedly hard

    March 9, 2016 at 5:01 pm #304806
    karanpreetrobin
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    A
    C
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    B
    B
    B
    C
    B
    B
    A
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    A
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    D
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    Q3: ROI was 36.08%

    Total labour rate Adverse
    Efficiency favourable rest can’t remember LOL
    fixed overheards can be included in life cylce costing??
    Dint include lawyer 20000 wages
    Also, I calculated just simply multiplying marketing/advertising expected cost with provided probabilities eg 2200X.2+ 2400X.4+2600X.4= total
    And same for year2.

    Any feedback guys?

    I couldn’t understand q1 at all
    I just 1/1000= 0.001
    10-0.001q
    And MR=MC (seems all wrong tbh)
    Thanks
    Kaz!

    March 9, 2016 at 5:08 pm #304814
    Kieron
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    Question 1 was one of the easiest for me, I think it was just saying that you couldn’t use an algebraic approach because the demand curve wasn’t linear. E.g. on one of the batches, the quantity demanded went up by 1,000 units and the price dropped by $3, whereas previously it had dropped by $2 and yet the same increase in demand happened.

    That’s the way I felt about it, anyway. Keen to hear others thoughts.

    March 9, 2016 at 5:11 pm #304818
    maitregaio
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    Question 1 in b) I same the same as Kieron, that you couldn’t do algebric method because change in price/quantity wasn’t linear

    a) I just deduct all cost per unit (including fixed divide by unit) from selling price, and chose the best profit

    Not sure at all it was that though!! But I guess it’s interesting to be able to see all answer…

    March 9, 2016 at 5:13 pm #304822
    flapper84
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    Hi Kieron, I did the same as you for question 1. For the first part we simply had to use the information to calculate how many batches should be used to generate the most profit, my answer was 4 batches because the profit was 14,400.

    For part B I answered like you, not linear etc.

    I found the paper difficult overall and found there were many questions on systems and non financial performance indicators which I wasn’t prepared for.

    I spent so much time perfecting linear programming and pricing using equations only to find there wasn’t a single question on this!

    March 9, 2016 at 5:13 pm #304823
    maitregaio
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    I got same answer for 2 and 3 so I choose 3 saying the break even point was earlier

    March 9, 2016 at 5:15 pm #304827
    flapper84
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    Anyone able to confirm the answer to the learning curve MCQ?

    March 9, 2016 at 5:16 pm #304830
    flapper84
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    The fixed costs increased for 5 batches so I’m pretty sure the correct answer was 4 batches

    March 9, 2016 at 5:17 pm #304834
    maitregaio
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    What did you put in balance scorecard? Grrr I hate this thing… 🙁

    March 9, 2016 at 5:21 pm #304839
    flapper84
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    I didn’t adjust for overtime rate but I did comment in part C that the manager had done well to take on the extra workload and not increase the wage bill with overtime premium.

    March 9, 2016 at 5:21 pm #304840
    nickg2004
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    The multiple choice questions felt a lot harder than all the past papers I’d done.

    Q1 – I think the point was you couldn’t solve it using algebraic methods, as part b stated. I hope it was easy as I found it to be otherwise I went completely wrong! Calculating the profit that could be achieved at each batch level, so that no profit could be made by buying and selling one batch, a loss was made selling 2 batches and the optimum batches was 4.
    For part b) I said the reason it couldn’t be solved by algebra was that a value for b couldn’t be found as there was no linear relationship between the change in price and quantity demanded. The change in quantity demanded was always 1000 but to begin with this was brought about by a change in price of $2, then $3 and finally $1.

    The question on ROI I messed up completely, ended up with a figure of 0.3% or something like that. I had never seen a question on ROI with so much emphasis on depreciation and I couldn’t think whether or not depreciation should be included in the calculations, in the end I did include it which probably ended up with some completely wrong figures!

    Everything else felt ok to me. Not sure if anyone else did but I amortized the cost of the patent acquisition and applied a 2 year value to the calculation as it didn’t say that the product only had a 2 year life cycle so it would seem unfair to base a profit calculation for 2 years on the assumption that those first two years absorbed all of the costs of the patent when future years profits would benefit from them for nothing. I subtracted the lawyers fees from the total and then divided by the years as this was an unavoidable cost.

    In the variance question I didn’t factor in any overtime into my calculations as although it made a point of stating the overtime rate, it never said if any overtime was actually worked or at what level overtime would start and therefore left it impossible to tell exactly how much overtime would have been worked.

    March 9, 2016 at 5:21 pm #304842
    gulnarsamad
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    i didnt do any adjustment for overtime but accounted for that when evaluating performance of production manager.
    revised hours were 3.25 which i used..

    March 9, 2016 at 5:22 pm #304843
    ahstpk
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    Do correct me , if i am wrong.
    Q1 was to select most profitable from 5 given scenarios (based on total profit) i guess!!

    It was something like this
    1= contribution 10,000 fixed cost 10,000 , profit =0
    2= Contribution (dont remember) fixed cost 10,000, profit 8,000 (i guess)
    3= fixed cost 12,000 = profit lesser!
    4= fixed cost = 12000 profit = max!
    5= fixed cost 14,000 = profit lesser then above.!

    Q1-b why algebraic method couldn’t be used?

    correct ans. was 4

    MCQ:
    learning curve = 10*100*100^-(Log .95/log 2) – 10*99*99^-(Log .95/log 2)
    safety margin = break even 3000, max 4000

    Q-2 …what was it ??

    Q-3…life cycle cost (marketing on E.V), 200,000*2 (license cost for 2 years), rest same..

    Q-4 … score card….good question

    Q-5…labor variance… Well, 2 marks were easy i.e labour price variance, rate variance?
    part B was to calculate all possible ratios? what were they?
    Part C comment on performance.!

    March 9, 2016 at 5:23 pm #304844
    flapper84
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    I hated this question! I had not learnt balanced scorecard so to see a 15 mark question based on this was very upsetting! I had watched the lecture by John Moffat and had some knowledge of the subject but not specifically scorecard…hopefully I picked up a few marks for my suggestions but if I fail it will be this question that was my downfall 🙁

    March 9, 2016 at 5:23 pm #304845
    nickg2004
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    @flapper84 said:
    Anyone able to confirm the answer to the learning curve MCQ?

    I got 2. something, can’t remember the exact answer but it was the only one above 2

    March 9, 2016 at 5:23 pm #304846
    Christa
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    I proposed the one with the profit of 14,400

    i think that was batch 5

    March 9, 2016 at 5:23 pm #304847
    Md Mohiuddin Robel
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    mcq 1.C
    2.A
    3.C
    4.A
    5.D
    6.D
    7.B
    8.D
    9.D
    10.D
    11.C
    12.C
    13.A
    14.C
    15.C
    16.D
    17.D
    18.B
    19.B
    20.D

    March 9, 2016 at 5:25 pm #304849
    Kieron
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    @flapper84 said:
    Hi Kieron, I did the same as you for question 1. For the first part we simply had to use the information to calculate how many batches should be used to generate the most profit, my answer was 4 batches because the profit was 14,400.

    For part B I answered like you, not linear etc.

    I found the paper difficult overall and found there were many questions on systems and non financial performance indicators which I wasn’t prepared for.

    I spent so much time perfecting linear programming and pricing using equations only to find there wasn’t a single question on this!

    By all accounts this was a tough exam – I wouldn’t be surprised which way it went for me…

    It’s good to know that you went for 4 batches, I did also.

    It seems crazy, like yourself I’d spent a lot of time working on other areas, specifically the algebra regarding pricing and linear programming… And then a 15 mark question comes up about the Balanced Scorecard, which I’d only skimmed over.

    Goes to show you really need to know the syllabus inside and out for F5.

    March 9, 2016 at 5:27 pm #304850
    gulnarsamad
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    mine was 4. why is everyboy referring to equations. didnt we have use the tabular approach.. at 5th bach the marinal revenue went negative. so my answer was 4 . and then i rechecked with 3, and 4 batches to confirm the answer.

    March 9, 2016 at 5:30 pm #304851
    Christa
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    you had to calculate the weighted average capital

    (NBV at the beginning + NBV at the end )/2

    I got 20 something percent in the ROI before inv and 30 something after…

    The manager will invest

    March 9, 2016 at 5:30 pm #304852
    cameron
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    Im intrigued how do you recall mcq answers?

    March 9, 2016 at 5:31 pm #304853
    Christa
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    Did you add in the opportunity costs?

    the only cost i deducted was the salary for the lawyer

    March 9, 2016 at 5:35 pm #304855
    dipatil
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    @bukenya said:
    my decision was 5 batches as it hard the highest profits of 14400, may b

    I think the corect answer was 4 because if calculate all data from the table it was giving you higher profit with 4

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