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Passed 51. Omg I’m so relieved. I couldnt attempt the 20 marks rolling budget question. But the rest of the 80 marks I did was really good and I was positive about it. But you never really know with acca. This feels so much more than 51. Thank you open tuition.

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@gurp said:
Thank you for the reply. Did you use any of the books for the syllabus at all or purely opentuition?

No problem Gurpreet I just used the opentuition notes and lectures for syllabus, nothing else. It covers everything.
Past papers and Kaplan for practice.

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@gurp said:
Hy guys, I had a complete disaster in the exam .I did self study & used the Becker book but realised the book was at a much less advanced level than the actual exam. which book did you all use?

I used the opentuition notes and lectures for going through the syllabus. It is the best.
And kaplan for practice questions.

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@heychi said:
I focused on the OPP. The paragraph said they had a minimum and maximum demand they had to produce as far as I’m aware..

Although they said the minimum must be met, the question specifically asked what is the optimal production plan (with only 120 or something minutes/hours left) in order to maximize the profit.

I got my answer by finding the contribution for each cake, and then dividing by the limiting factor i.e hours/minutes to find amount of contribution per limiting factor.

The biggest contributor gets made first.The demand I used was the maximum expected demand. After I did that, there was no time to make any muffins.

The same thing happened in September paper I think where people said to honor the contract..I found the answer was asking to focusing on the OPP as normal and then using the Maximum expected demand (including the contract). So in this case, that’s what I did.

This is only my answer and opinion though.

You make sense and knowledge wise both of us solved it the same way. However, the difference in our answer is due to the fact that I solved it in accordance with the scenario provided at the beginning because it was an MTQ and you solved it independently. Neither one deserves to be wrong because we both had the knowledge lol.

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@2929107 said:
hi, any idea when the december sitting paper will be posted?

Yess please does anyone about this? I’m curious to find out too. When is the question paper released?

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@azaramirov said:
However, the question mentioned that “in order to maximize the profit” or smth like that, so we had to rise the limits to the maximum (my opinion).

Anybody made sure which bottleneck it was ? mixing, weighing or what?

Dude you make absolute sense but aren’t the mtqs supposed to be treated according to the scenario provided at the start of question and not independently on its own? I basically used that approach to meet minimum demand first.

And if I remember correctly, the bottleneck was mixing.

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@msarosh said:
Yes the question did say that the minimum demand for cupcakes, brownies and muffins must be met. They had given us the minimum and maximum demand for each of them

Yes and so according to that information, weren’t we supposed to produce at least a batch of all 3 items to meet minimum demand first and then manage the remaining hours according to the OPP?

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Ok so I have this question for all of you that put 0 muffins or brownies on the throughput question and I would really appreciate if someone can clear this out for me.
Didn’t the data in the question specifically ask us to honour the contract we had with the cafe and to provide them first and foremost? It had a minimum amount of cupcakes, brownies and Muffins that the cafe required, so how could your answers have 0 muffins or cupcakes?
Or am I just being delusional here and we only had to focus on the OPP? :/

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In q32, Gain on sale of asset, and cost of closure of company were both excluded because we were supposed to assess the divisional managers performance as asked in the question and both of these decisions were made by the head office, thus uncontrollable. Excluded depreciation on exchange rate too.

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These were my answers to the mcqs and mtqs, in order from 1-30. Fingers crossed and would really appreciate it if someone can tele it with me. Best of luck to everyone.

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@louiseabigail said:
I had a shortage of approx 11k of beta. Majority went on the 5k of shakes. Leaving only 4500 for the cookies and cakes. Getting a protit of around 22 or 23k and the deciding if they should honor the contract or not i got a profit of 41k

Loved question 31 think i wrote about 4 pages and did about 8-10 calculations. Hopefully i get the full 20 marks for this.

Hopefully done enough to pass

Can you elaborate a bit about the calculations in 31.

And in 32, 5000 shakes for encompass health were apart from current demand and so 5000g had to be deducted from 12000g of beta first leaving us with 7000g of Betta for current demand of cookies cakes and shakes. The question specified that shakes for encompass health were not included in the table and what would our revised Opp be if we honored our contract to encompass.
So it was 5000 shakes for encompass, followed by all cookies, some cakes and 0 shakes of current demand.

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@dralec12 said:
Has anyone answered Q32a using Throughput accounting with Betta (limited to 12,000g per month) as the bottleneck constraint? and then calculated the optimal production of each product based on the ranking of Throughput per grams?

You are not alone my friend. We used the same technique

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Q32a and b was throughput accounting.
12000g betta was available.
5000 for contract of shakes.
That leaves us with 7000g and our current demand required i think 10000something grams so shortfall was around 3000.
Then we make cookies in full and some cakes of current demand until betta runs out and we are unable to make remaining cakes and 0 shakes of current demand. That was my answer. Hope I got some of it correct
I mismanged time on 32. It was such an easy question and I am cursing myself for not clearly mentioning the non financial performance measures clearly in detail because I was left with 5 minutes for that :(. Can anyone let me know how they worked out the calculations for financial measures in same question.
MCQS were really tough. Testing more knowledge(through theory) than calculations.
Fingers crossed. Good luck everyone!

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