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cokebear wrote:Got 48% for SBR but passed AAA. Oh gosh

Hi. Because i am interesting on studying for both exams and giving them in June’21 can you tell me how many hours of study you spend per exam? Thank you.

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@beth33 said:
I really struggled with taking another exam with SBR (work full time but have always taken two together) as there is a lot to learn and to get your head around however AAA does base a lot of its knowledge on standards which are also taught in SBR.
Personally I would stick to just the one exam.

Thank you for the advice, appreciated.

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@ahista said:
Hi ,if you failed SBR recently and you have got all uptodate materials ,like course notes and revision kit then I think you should concentrate on SBR first and get it out of your way .Reason is ,you are already familiar with the Paper and you can assess where you went wrong last time and work on it .And will be able to focus more if you do only one paper .Whereas I passed AAA recently ,there is lot to cover and pass rate you will see is quite low .Hope my advice is of help to you .

Thank you, your advice is really helpful.

[kostas79]

Thank you Mr. Widberg for your advise. I will follow it most probably and give just SBR in June in order to increase my possibilities to pass it first time.

[kostas79]

Q1. a. Political: government policy towards payroll system-higher wages and costs
Environmental: green consumers, green supermarkets
Social: recession i think so, lifestyle changes
Legal: law over disabled people- staff service (Strength), small supermarkets(Weakness)

b.Porter’s 5 forces
Buyers power: bargaining power for lowprices better quality, undiferentiated products, low switching costs
suppliers power: high prices,long term contracts
competition: three large chains, cooperative markets for company
substitute products
new erntrants: threats of economies of scale-large chains reduce costs
distribution threat
legal threats like fines of new law for disable people

c. CSF resources and competences of company and analysis, integrated reporting

Q2. a. ratio analysis of Itrus software company
NPM decrease-high admin costs at second year
ROCE decrease i thing so
Receivables decrease but still high days at 92 days if i remember well
payables decrease at 40-pay fast the suppliers means cash flow problems
decrease PPE
staff decrease at half-redundancy problems, bad name for company, no motivated employees
increase debt ratio due to increase of long term liabilities, loans

b. compatibility, new software ERP match with currentsoftware
training of employees over new software
after saleservice, maintenance of software
staff motivation readiness to new software changes
supplier name and reliability in industry
supplier continuing of operations,financial perfoirmance
software checks updating etc

Q4. a. price skimming, penetration pricing,cost plus margin
lock in suppliers with promotion schemes like replacement of used cars etc
differentiated pricing: new cars both charging option offered to new segmentsand markets like green
consumers

b. evaluation of pricing strategy: used SAF
Suitability of company environment strengts to introduce high price for new car
Acceptability by major stakeholders for high price-shareholders increase profits, green consumers available to pay a premium
Feasibility to high price for new car as company has the resources as staff expert and products diversification and resources like good financial position to introduce high price

c. promotion like advertisements to car magazines and except from traditional push promotion use pull promotion through websites notifications, videos, emails etc

place: sell cars all over the world through internet e-commmerce etc

physical evidence: car test drives, pictures of cars, videos

Hope to pass this time at least with 50%. Hope the same to all here!

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