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Hi All , have any of you received your certificates by post yet? My transcrip arrived some weeks ago together with a letter stating the certificate would be sent by the end of July , it is however nowhere to be seen… Is there a contact email to the OBU?
I highly recommend Learning Luminarium to everyone. I have passed my RAP at the first attempt and I believe that at least half of my success is thanks to them. My mentor , Irwin Loh was absolutely exceptional throughout the whole process. Irwin really has the knowledge of the RAP requirements.He was available on mail, Skype and WhatsApp. He replied to every single of my emails within hours, giving constructive feedback on my work. His guidance and tips were invaluable! Irwin kept
reading my RAP, challenging it and giving tips which enabled me to consider my findings in a broader context. Irwin truly is the perfect mentor and if I was to choose again, I would go for him every time. Thank you Irwin!Hi all 🙂 Congratulations to all that have managed to get a degree! Could someone share the email about the graduation please? I have not received it yet.
Dear Gillian
Thank you so much for your answer- it is very helpful.I totally agree with you regarding the suggested word counts in each section but I am nervous not to stick to it. I think I’ll go with your suggestion and carry on my research project and perhaps go back to it later on.
Thank you again.
Hi all, for the life of me I cannot figure what to write in my Approach to research section.
Looking at the guidelines I ought to have some 500 words in that section yet I have 200 and I am struggling to produce any more! What sort of things do you write there? How to bump up the word count in section one? I’ve read all exemplars but they seem to be on a short side ( even shorter than mine!)Hi Everyone, what companies are you doing your RAP’s on? Any tips on deciding on what company to choose?
Dear Trephena, could you tell me when the RAP topics will be published for the November 2018 submission please? I am now sure how and when to start… Do I find a mentor first? Or do I wait for the topics then find a mentor? Any advice would be greatly appreciated.
@kanchandhankar said:
Good to know 🙂
With this growth
I got cost of equity 10.4=.23 (1+.036)/3.50 +.036
=.104 x
=10.4 %Agrh! I know where I went wrong. I stupidly did not add the growth at the end ?????????? But yes, agree with your figures 🙂
@kanchandhankar said:
As far as i remember
D 5 yrs ago .2
Latest .23
.2x (1+g)=.23
G= .23/.2 sq root 4 -1
=3.555
=3.6 %That’s what I got!
@bg12321 said:
I got the WACC question for Moscow Co. & the Lease vs Buy question.Looking back over Lease vs Buy i’ve definitely messed up in a couple areas of my NPV calculations forgetting to use the post-tax cost of capital instead of pre-tax, but hoping i’ve done enough elsewhere to get the marks.
If my memory serves me right, the WACC answer i got was
Ve – $175m
Vd – Convertible debt – $84m
Vd – Loan – $125mKe – 9.6%
Kd – Convertible debt – 7.5%
Kd – Loan – 6.4%Total WACC came out between 8% & 9% (ish)
It’s a little concerning that everyone has different answers but at least we will score marks for workings, even if we slipped up at any point!
The WACC figures look familiar, I hope I just messed up in adding up rather than the method… can you remember your growth at all?
@suzimw said:
I feel the same, unfortunately. Try to stay positive though, you never knowThank you and same to you 🙂 Fingers crossed very tightly!
@colinjsweetman said:
Nooo….I got 10.67% for WACC. Did you add on the fixed interest loan too? 100m at 10% or somethingDon’t
panic – you might have had a different question 🙂 Yes I did add it, tax adjusted but I don’t think it was 10% … Can’t be sure though to be honest 🙂@llkkjj said:
is their any past exam paper i can refer to which have joint probabilities?Apparently it came up in June 2010… but I have not found it yet.
@suzimw said:
I got 7.78% for the WACC and just talked about the different theories M&M with tax, traditional etc. and the difference it would make if option or premium was taken using those theories. I have no idea if that is what they were looking for. The paper was hard and like you, Julia, I couldn’t work out the probabilities NPV question.I think I got something like 6.6% for WACC … I took the same approach in the ‘wordy’ question. I hope for a miracle that I somehow scrape through with 50% pass but it’s very unlikely…
@dg1020333 said:
Why you guys think joint probablities was hard? Ok smth different than usual but i see most of you being stressed because of that question.I simply never came across it and could not work out how to tackle it….
@aturkis said:
In Manchester. I hope so, unless I’ve missed something 😀Haha yes don’t worry. I panicked when he started asking me about islamic finance question I was like whaaaat! But then we worked out the questions were completely different
Where did you sit your exam? I know that the computer based exam had at least 2 versions as the guy that sat next to me
had completely different questions.What a disaster! This is going to be my first fail… I am so dissappinted as I studied really hard and completely ruined the joint probabilities question- I never came across it! What did you guys get for the WACC calculation? And how did you comment on the behaviour of WACc if the conversion was taken out? I hope you did better than I did!
Thank you everyone ! I really appreciate all tips. And thank you for the mock exams link Alison-this will definitely help.
@amusikhi said:
I cannot believe that I passed only with 2 days of studying ???Wow some of you must be really clever passing after couple of days revision?
It took me couple of months to read the whole syllabus and I only got 67%…Well done everyone!
But you can still provide tax services. It’s only financial statement you must not do for plc’s
@aiamakki said:
I think both of them are not as he stayed 4 years in UK but he did not return back before saleOh that’s right! I completely forgot to check if she returned to live there… 🙁 Oh well… There is always September…