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@wave9181 said:
I am very grateful for the people who cared to share their Mocks, cant thank you enough! I wish from my heart all of you a great exam on the 19th 🙂 and wish to see u all for the next intake with NEW subjectsHi
Please, if you could forward me the mocks I would be very grateful:
Many Thanks
DeanWhat really peed me off is that most of the tuition providers and fellow students say question practice is best way to prepare for exams, but I never came across these type of questions before when i did the past exam papers! Nor did I come across them in the kaplan exam kit ( I may be wrong?). Even on ACCA website they say exam question practice is the best way in their “revise wise” section!!
@rajad2010 said:
Could not agree more. The guy is completely disconnected with the reality and the students of ACCA.Having variations in the exam papers is fine but to muddle information so much is unfair. The biggest issue I have is this, to succeed in P4 you MUST do well on Q1 and Q2. In Q1 we had 3 proposals: Offer, Product options and Share Exchange. HOW ON EARTH THEN the muppet forms another question Q2 which also, incidentally has 3 PROPOSALS? Debt recapitalisation, Sell off and Investment in NCA.
What the heck was he and the examination team thinking? I have never seen a paper where 2 questions are so similar in style, of course requiring different applications.
Ofcourse Shishir Melde should be sent an email from every student on how horrible his exams are and that he is ugly.
shishir.malde@ntu.ac.uk
Tel: 0115 848 4269
Nottingham Business School
Nottingham Trent University
Burton Street
Nottingham
Nottinghamshire
NG1 4BUOut of interest, what is the complaints procedure? Is there one?
@eugeneksc said:
Well it was a company preparing to enter a country which is facing something similar to the European debt crisis. Think about the possible interest rate hike to curb high inflation, banks who’re not willing to lend etc.I can understand what your saying mate, but to me the debt crisis was one of many risk factors that could be discussed. I actually found the scenario quite contradictory because it was saying the country was suffering from a debt crisis but also inflation was high and employment was high which would be signs of prosperity not austerity.
@eugeneksc said:
To be honest, no time pressure at all… Because I don’t even know where to start in question 1! Hopefully my BSOP and FCF get some marks, doubt i will squeeze 10 marks from question mark out of the possible 35!The rest was not that hard, and to those of you who said there were no European debt crisis at all, it was quietly sitting in question number 5. Overall still a disaster to me simply because of question 1!
But question 5 was not about european debt crisis. It had one sentence saying the country for the potential subsidiary suffered from a debt crisis. The question was about identifying the risks in the case and discuss how they can be mitigated, so there were other more important risks in the question which could be mitigated against.
Absolute disaster!! this was my first try. Agree with Blackbeauty, just way too confusing. Looking back at the past papers, I preferred Bob Ryan’s approach, he seemed more direct and straight to the point.
Was expecting to see more of Euopean debt crisis come into the exam but nothing! I mean, before Dec’11 exam examiner releases an article on interest rate hedging and one on bonds, and they both appear in Dec’11 as separate questions!
This time round he releases article on european debt crisis and its not in the exam!I got stuck on this question aswell. How do you find the proportions for the Retail Asset Beta and Porperty Asset Beta. The answer says (4338/6800) and (2462/6800). How do you find these proportions? Thanks.
@osru said:
Hi Deanogerrard,
Yes there’s one question i’ve come across. Have a look at past paper June 2010. Section A ‘Ashanti group’ is SOCI. Its a good question to practise.
i wouldn’t ignore it bcoz SOCI didn’t come up for last couple of papers so it might be this time round! also which ever text book you are using there should be some practise question related to SOCI.
Have you done anything on SME’S? any idea how the question might come for this topic? would there be any calculation or purely theory based? i’ve only got a technical report on IFRS for Sme’s. not sure what else to look at. any help would be much appreciated.
best regardsThanks Osru. Cheers for your help, the June 2010 is the exam paper im missing so I will download it.
Ive only just started revising so im starting with the consolidation aspects first. Im afraid I have not looked into SMEs yet. Still trying to et my head around the group consolidations. Sorry, and thanks again.