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@dallan said:
It is updated on MYACCA at 5:00am UK Time
however the emails and texts are disseminated at 12:00am uk timeDamn I don’t know why myAcca says they don’t have my email registered with em this time ?
@mshstudent said:
6 more hours!Isn’t it at 0500 UK time?
Just checked. Also, only one question from june attempt, right?
@inatiswas said:
The March/June 17 sample exam questions are on the ACCA website. Looking at question 1, it’s in line with the syllabus and only 2 pages long. That wasn’t the case on Wednesday with 4 pages!.
@jayadevsr said:
Hi,
Do u remember the marks allocation for Q2? It had 3 sub questions..Jayadev
I think it was 11,5,9
I did ABC for healthy. There were problems in the cost for healthy one of the appendices. ZBB for basic, mentioned although it was a stable market but cost reduction was one of the main new strategic objectives, ZBB would support that. Rolling for kids. Can’t remember what I did for PD. I think it was ZBB.
@sa1pw said:
I was literally tearing my hair out in Q2 part A. I mean we are supposed to calculate ROCE for an entity, Why are you making us calculate contribution using another company (manufacturer’s utilization) and not providing revenues of the company for which we are supposed to calculate ROCE.That too for 11 mark or something. I just couldn’t get that part. Very frustrating
It was about ABC. I thought of attempting it but didn’t have much to write about EMA.
@ryansm05 said:
Ahhh I thought to myself the VFM was the 3 E’s but then convinced myself it wasn’t…
That’s so frustrating!!First time sitting P5 for me, so not entirely sure how harsh the marking is.
Q1 was tough. I’d hope for some decent marks for the Lean Info and CoQ/TQM. BS weaknesses wasn’t really an area I had revised, so just went with conflicting info and excludes external stakeholders whilst rambling on about the model. Capital Measurements was tough. Just made an educated guess. The performance measurements used / proposed didn’t really apply to maximising S/H wealth. I just threw out EVA and RI definition and moved swiftly on.
Was lean info system about The 5 S model? For CoQ I wrote about cost of prevention, detection, internal failure and external failure.
I wrote random stuff about the BSC too. Also mentioned EVA and market share. I compared all the profits under the part that mentioned return on investments. And I wrote that taking just equity is not appropriate for the calculation of ROCE or ROI. As cost of equity is higher and secondly if debt is completely ignored the company might be tempted to take even more loans which will make its gearing position bad. For this same part I also mentioned Residual income.
I mentioned about VFM and 3Es somewhere in question one as well. :S
Also I think I spent too much time doing part one of question two. For the KPI identified I concluded that it was not a good KPI.
I did the same conclusion. But I couldn’t do a lot of calculations. I took the number of calls not answered as a percentage of total number of calls. I compared the company with the other two on a couple of pounts. Couldn’t do in detail though.
Did question 2 and 4. There were hardly any calculations. Or maybe I didn’t do it :s
Hi Palmy,
It’s irrelevant to the topic of discussion and it sounds stupid too, but I don’t get why the last two sittings’ past papers are labelled as sample questions?
I did check. don’t know about Ansoff but performance prism, beyond budgeting, planning gap and staff empowerment are out of syllabus according to my research.
Yep! That made me want to scream…requirements within a scenario and then you’re detracked from the main requirement….
I actually wished last night that swot pestel, valye chain or 5 forces are examined.. now I’m wishing I had wished whatever was examined I just understood the requirements