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Formulas and rounding

Forums › Ask ACCA Tutor Forums › Ask the Tutor ACCA FM Exams › Formulas and rounding

  • This topic has 3 replies, 2 voices, and was last updated 6 years ago by John Moffat.
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  • October 28, 2019 at 12:45 pm #551082
    Anonymous
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    A question in the BPP FM revision text has a CBE-style 2-mark question:

    A company recently paid a dividend of $0.50. This is $0.10 more than 3 years ago. Required rate of return is 10%. Using the dividend valuation model and assuming recent dividend growth is expected to continue, what is the current value of a share, to 2 decimal places?

    Using formulas in Excel gives $23.64.

    The ‘correct’ answer was $23.41.

    The difference is because in the workings shown in the text the growth rate (g) was rounded to 0.077 (7.7%). However, the result from the Excel formula is more accurate because it doesn’t round until the end. In fact rounding g, but to anything other than 3 decimal places, will lead to a different answer.

    As there was only a box to enter a value rather than a multiple choice, and as it is computer marked, would it be marked wrong even if it is out by a very small amount? Should I remember to use only x.x% for all percentages within calculations? The format seems inconsistent with the fact that it is a CBE.

    October 28, 2019 at 2:44 pm #551089
    John Moffat
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    Firstly you will not be able to use excel for the 2 mark questions (only for the Section C questions).

    However, rounding difference can still occur in the Section A and B questions and so in the real exam the computer is programmed to accept a range of answers so as to avoid this problem.

    October 31, 2019 at 8:28 pm #551308
    Anonymous
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    Thank you.

    November 1, 2019 at 9:18 am #551349
    John Moffat
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    You are welcome 🙂

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