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@dennis98 said:
Was wondering – if you do all three optional questions will the marker give you marks for the best two?

you had time to finish all three optional????

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@chris1975z said:
I personally think the only circumstance to mirror my disappointment on leaving the exam hall yesterday will be watching England’s performance in this summer’s world cup.

Question 1 blew me away in trying to identify the sufficient number of business risks and RoMM’s. Panic set in and poor exam technique followed.

Coupled with a poor choice of one of the optional questions (why oh why did I choose the question containing a lump of Financial Instruments?!?!).

I felt it prudent to delay issuing a response until today to let the “dust settle” as very emotional after a bottle of Prosseco yesterday afternoon!

The only positive was the KAM question but certainly not enough to get me through. Passed every other paper at first attempt. I’ll be fortunate to get low 40’s on this.

I’ll take this week “off” (if nothing else then to give my hand a rest) and then back to revision again from next Monday.

I genuinely wish everybody the very best of luck and hope all your hard work and effort is rewarded with a pass in July.

3rd September booked as annual leave already….

Best wishes to all.

do not be so negative and pessimistic!come onnnn:) we are all were in time presure and stress…you are not alone)

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@vikar said:
Hi every one,
The paper was tough as compared to others.
Q1.i wrote business risks.5
ROMM.i missed government grant .
The one for sale of division IAS40 but it should be inventory as it was his normal course of business.procdures was good.
Ethicas portion was ok not good due to time.Q2 was Quality controle and good attempt 85%.Q4 was also attempted good 85% and miserably only wrote EOMp. And time up.please comment.

i agree with you…it shouldnt be classified as investment property.not meets criteria.

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seems many were in such situation…time presure of this exam unreal

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@jake360 said:
Can anyone remember the requirements of question 2? Can’t remember if recommending procedures was a part of it!

yes it was procedures as well.

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@maximdewinter said:
It was a hard paper. I got completely stuck with the throughput accounting/TOC case with teachers, classrooms and books in section B. My brain just could not take in what was exactly meant in the scenario. I don’t understand why they could not just put there a standard production company. Or maybe I was just too tired 🙂

seems all variants of papers this time was disaster and morning session and noon…unbelievable(((

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@vgs1 said:
Well at least I wasn’t the only one who found this exam very difficult The questions took a while to complete in section A. In Section C I struggled to get my head around the transfer pricing question – understand the theory but applying it to the question was difficult. So disappointing.

for me section a was more or less ok but b and c with this transfer pricing nightmare.

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@tcrngdr said:
Hi,
A question for all those candidates that sat the paper with Section C questions on the 3Es and the hotel. Did anyone else have trouble seeing the whole hotel question on their screen? I’m aware that you had to scroll up and down but I also had to scroll left and right which made analysing the graph and picking out the relevant information quite difficult. It was so time consuming!!! Not what I needed on my last question 🙁

omg…guys…unbelievable!! we still have choice of paper based, hopefully not to reach CBE.

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@sulli said:
Can some please tell me what is pass rate. i searched on ACCA website and found out that for December 2017 F5 pass rate was 42* and i had 41. what does it mean? to pass the F5 or other paper must get >50%?

you confused…42% it means that only 42% from 100% of all students in the world who sat exam passed it with 50% and above.

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@floralin2012 said:
I never take this kind of hard exam though my all life, it destroyed my confidence and i thought i know every topic and accumulator points in the book and revision of practice well, but the revision exam questions with exam question is totally different style, I have no idea, why examiner is very harsh for students. ACCA f5 exam this time is a extremely hard and tricky style for me. For me, Section A is super hard, and Section B half of questions don’t know how to think and answer, Section C why 3E is big sections. I really want to know this season pass rate can over 40 or not? If it is lower than F8, that is so ridiculous. My heart broken after exam done.

same here…absolutely understand you with feelings after exam.i left room totally squeezed.

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i also had 7$ as minimum tr price

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@f4notes said:
What about Question 1 (how much investment should decrease? I got 10 mln to decrease.

Part – C – Two main factors – what did you write?</blockquote
which paper did you have?i didnt have such questions about factors and investments.

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agree…very hard paper and too much details everywhere…sad

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@jsmp said:
Hey guys, did anyone do question 2b? I did not know what to write.

what the question was about?

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@acca6578 said:
6 marks for calculation and elabroation of each company by using bcg and ash model, identify the correct segment will grant you 0.5 or 1 mark i guess

seems not realistic to have 6 mrks for calculation.its too much.

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@sal2222 said:
Theres 2 sessions a morning and afternoon, both with different questions, i did afternoon and i think most of these about the morning paper.

THe North America question was in the afternoon paper.

and purpose to do it?

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@meva2002uk said:
I am surprised that there seems to of been quite a wide range of questions. A lot of what people are talking about was not on my exam?

same here…how come we had different exams?

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@vervemj said:
Yes i think i wrote the same. Heartland because it was a good fit with the parent and made up about 50% of gross profits of the 3 companys in question and was in the same country as other subs so could offer resources to benefit.

about star and heartland seems was obvious because it was same industry of operating also of electronics to give value and experience to subsidiary.

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@vikar said:
Hi everyone I attempt question 1 time consuming but answer well up to 75%.Question2 was BCG and ashridge matrix I think first one cash cow second one problim child and and value trap, third one star business and edges of heart. Portfolio ,synergical and parental developer discuss a little bit .Q.4 culture web with how changes in culture.copetency frame work discuss only for 4 marks no time .
Guyes please reply me about bcg matrix I am confused if it is wrong then how much marks deducted.

first was in my opinion question mark.second cash cow and third star.about ashridge value trap second balast and third hearland.

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@mumbaikar said:
Were we required to do a flexed budget and if yes were the answers all adverse ?

yes it was requirement of flexed budget

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@jasvirdi said:
Does anyone actually remember the break down of question 1.
I know part A was 24 marks for value chain and assessing it.

What about part B – addressing strengths and weakness or just one? It was just weaknesses right? Also how many marks was it?

Part C was advantages of budgeting, but how many marks was it?

budgetting was for 10 marks

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@jasvirdi said:
The paper was reasonable.

Does anyone remember the marks for the compulsory question and what the questions were roughly.

For options I did questions 2 and 3.
Question 2 was financial analysis on 3 different acquired businesses of a corporate parent with BCG Matrix and Ashridge Model (18 marks). And also the 3 corporate parent approaches (7 marks).

Question 3 was harmons process strategy mix looking at three functions of the business (15 marks) and disavantages of outsourcing a department (10 marks)
Not sure what question 4 was- can’t even remember.
Any ideas what question 4 was??

question was about cultural web

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@accountinglearner said:
You can take two exams every three months if you like, but it is hard work.

I sat my last two F papers this time round, hopefully trying to avoid being forced to take the CBE versions next year as I don’t like the idea of having to do calculations using a computer when you spend your study time doing it on paper.

exactly same idea i have about cbe exams.hopefully not to ne inside of it.

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@musmang44 said:
When could we expect a key released or we dont expect it before results?

questions ll be released before results.but answers on them after results and actually after march session as hybrid paper.

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@accountinglearner said:
For the planning variance MCQ I got my answer as 1,000 F which I think was choice A.

This one threw me at first, as normally we are given the raw data, (e.g. number of units, prices, actual quantities etc.), and we use these to compute the variances. However for this one they gave us the variance totals but not the raw data.

I spent the first 15 minutes of the exam writing down all the variance formulae, throughput formulae etc. on the blank page of the question paper as I was worried about it all ‘falling out of my head’ so-to-speak.

From these formulae I plugged in the numbers that we were given in the question and used simultaneous equations to eliminate the unknown ‘raw data’ parts of the formulae. So that I could get the last remaining variance.

on the beggining was also confused because of no raw data like for production but after its all the same logic.however i lost some time to find a way to calculate mix and quantity.

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