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Hi,
I am not so good at APM (even APM is my favorite paper) but my experience is along with lecture notes, read technical articles as much as you can.
If you do not have much time to practise all past exams, going thru them, reading questions & answers as much as possible can help.

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Couldnt sleep well last night waiting for the result. Passed both SBR 66% and APM 62% at 1st attempt. Honestly I consider it an achievement with these two last papers.
All my heart & head went for APM but marks are under expectation; however total relief now.
ACCA has given me so wonderful feelings, not for the marks or the certificate but this moment which I never forget.
Congrats to the ones passed and gluck for the ones not yet.
Like most of you, I treasure and appreciate the feelings ACCA has been given to us.

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1a – Did not know how to start, spending much time on this
1b – Spent too much time on financial implication too, then be confused :(. Non-financial I pointed out
+ Location & characteristics of Excelior store & BB
+ Brand name
+ Experience in working with Excelior & BB
+ Other non-financial: 1 high class store only >< a supermarket chain, and one more point now I even couldnt remember what I wrote :))
2a – Same, Wrote but not easy to get 16 marks at all
2b – I used TARA, confused in how to state in 3 slides (key contents)
3 – I could not understand the requirement until now. Really confused.

@muland said:
1a was okay- I think it relied more on commercial acumen than the use of a model as it sounded like you had to consider all strategies? I went down the route of what shops, website, and stockists would do for being able to develop new products and markets. Eg customer data from website.

1b I totally messed up- couldn’t get the financial implications down then got flustered!

2 I though was all okay- did the table but it was difficult to get 16 marks worth of points in a table!! Used TARA for part b and then for controls I recommended suppliers having to sign an ethical code of conduct and Dulce carrying out independent, unannounced audits.

3 was a right pain! From the wording of the question I can only assume they were wanting us to take the criteria of the baldridge model for high performing organisations and evaluate how Dulce are doing against these. Eg visionary leadership is one of the criteria; there was nothing to show innovative leadership with a clear vision communicated. Transparency and ethics is another criteria; I brought in the operations directors comments on not doing anything for child labour. Etc…
Could have totally misinterpreted what they were looking for though!

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For two control recommendations, I wrote as below.
1. Set terms in agreements with cocoa farmers regarding child-labor using
2. Audit cocoa farmers for child-labor using

Notes:
1. Agreements should clearly state obligations of cocoa farmers of not using child-labor. Cocoa farmers are required to provide list of their employees information including name, gender and age for Dulce

2. Regularly audit by field trips to observe and inspect whether they use child-labor

I just hope it gets some marks 🙁

And share the same feelings about Q3. I even did not understand the question 🙁

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Hello.
Congrats you passed. Could you please share with me some kinds of study documents. Gonna take SBL Mar19 and starting studying now 🙁

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Gluck on the next time. Keep trying 🙂

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Pass with 68. Finished F but not ready for P at all because checking ACCA results makes my heart out of the chest.

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Pass mark 67 for PM & 68 for AA and feeling a little bit lucky because I attended the exam with bad health situation (dizzy, running nose and even couldn’t stay awake due to medicine).
Congrats all and g’luck 🙂

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Pass for the 2nd time for this Paper. Wish you all get “pass” result as well??

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Hi,

PI = PV/Initial investment. I saw this formula in Text and when doing past exams (as I can remember). See page 216, Text book BPP for Exams in Sep16,Dec16,Mar17,andJun17. Also can see it in google.

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Same answer.

@sokty said:
For divisible project:
Project PI
D 3.1
A 3
E 2.8
B 2.6

Project C and E are mutually exclusive, so E ranked 3rd, so we don’t choose C (although it is ranked 4th according to PI), and total maximum NPV is $13.3m.

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