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- March 26, 2014 at 12:13 am #163081
Passed! Thank you Lord!
March 26, 2014 at 12:06 am #163077Not yet.. Dashboard is blank as well
March 25, 2014 at 11:04 pm #163072Yes, 5am PST.
March 25, 2014 at 10:42 pm #163067Best of luck everyone. An hour and a half to go, hate these long nights..
February 8, 2014 at 9:44 am #15670469% at the first time of asking. Gained Affiliation 🙂
December 5, 2013 at 8:06 pm #150842I had 115-120 million profit using Plan A and 139.9 million using plan B
Happy to see similar answers!June 4, 2013 at 4:53 pm #129067<cite> @thehardone said:</cite>
Q1 (a)
used MM model to calculate ungeared Ke of Competitor firm. It was 11%Q1 (b)
Used 11% calc above to dicount free cash flows before and after BAhari project. The firm value was around$ 550 Million. Value of Bahari project was calculated using APV method. It was around $ 10 M.Q1 (c)
Asked Whether the unsecured bond holders will accept the debt to equity swap or not.
The debt was 10 yr, 13% coupon, nominal value $40M (please correct figures if theyre wrong)
According to the swap these bondholders will get 10% of the co’s equity shares after listing.
10% of shares would be 550M x 10% = 55 M
This is to be compared against the Market value of debt. Which I calculated using 7% Discount rate.Q1(d)
Calculate the range of initial share issue prices assuming 100 million shares.
I simply divided 550M/100 = $ 5.5 per shareAssumptions in calculating share price.
Reasons why a company would want a listing on stock exchange.
WOW. I just remembered.. the first question companies were both mining ones i.e same business but different financial risk which meant ungeared KE could be used as cost of capital.. right?
At any rate, my numerical answers match yours but my discount rate was different (assumed) since Q1 (a) was a part I just could not solve, completely panicked. Assumed KE 15%
June 4, 2013 at 2:53 pm #128902Q2 Was Mergers and Acquisition. Calculation of post-merger company value based on adjusted (lowered) combined PE and individual company MVs + Synergy benefits and value of intangibles (CIV) as well as assessing different forms of takeover finance ( cash, shares, bond) and calculating premium received by target shareholders as percentage of pre acquisition share price.
coolbreeze and everyone else, I feel this was a disaster as well.. I was prepared and knew 97% of the paper but was only able to attempt 80-85% … not sure if i’m passing 🙁
April 24, 2013 at 10:49 pm #123449Danny, there is a fundamental assumption and a concept that I believe you have gotten all wrong;
Whenever it is stated that a cashflow has arisen at the END of a particular year, that means the cashflow is to be treated as occuring in that year (you can assume at the start of it!).
Thus the positive cashflow starting in year 4 through year 15 occurs for a total of 12 years. We use the annuity factor for 15 years multiplied by the discount factor 1.11^(-3) to discount the cashflow for these 12 years.
Hope this helped.
February 15, 2012 at 12:58 pm #93422First attempt passed with 69%
January 8, 2012 at 6:19 pm #92393I’m in. Looking forward to it 🙂
January 8, 2012 at 10:08 am #92060Could you provide links for ansi’s topics? Ansi if you are planning any such sessions please do inform us so we can join. Thanks in advance 🙂
January 5, 2012 at 2:30 pm #92058I dont really use twitter and I have classes thursday-saturday 2-8pm UK time
How about skype or something? Facebook?December 28, 2011 at 4:53 pm #92047I’m gonna be sitting for F9 in june ’12 provided I pass atleast 2 exams in my previous attempt. Would like to take part in a study-group for it but i’m clueless about how this works, I have alot of free time so I am willing to lead any sessions, just brief me about how this works. Thanks.
December 14, 2011 at 12:38 pm #91757I was pumping my fists when I read the questions. BY FAR the easiest exam to date (UK version). And yes The Calculator, spot on about the case
December 7, 2011 at 4:14 pm #90691Where can the papers uploaded be seen on the ACCA website? link??
December 7, 2011 at 7:58 am #90677@hamsterham said:
For 1, did you add the lost contribution and the penalty together for one of the bullet points? I did, not sure if that was right. I think it was.Yeah I did, together with the engineers salaries that made their relevant cost.
December 6, 2011 at 3:23 pm #90962It was not too tough, but I was ill-prepared as I only started studying a week before the exams.. If I pass which I hope I will, the entire credit will be due to the open tuition team!
December 6, 2011 at 3:20 pm #91046I had the exact answers you have 😀
December 5, 2011 at 8:54 pm #90642Exam wasn’t that tough at all. Perhaps the fact that I realised early on that Q3 (budgeting theory) was something I hadn’t prepared for allowed me to do the remaining 4 questions well. Left Q3 for last and did the best I could. Still had 10 minutes left when the paper ended. Hoping for atleast 60%!
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