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@sue888: Hi Sue. How were your results? I am not having an OT session, just looking for someone to study online with in the evenings after work or on the weekend. Since you’re over in the UK it may a bit difficult considering that I’m about 5 hours behind of you.
@andersontracie…if you’re in the Caribbean then send me an e-mail to organise.
Passed – 68% ….hmmmmmmm think the marker made a mistake and reversed the numbers…shoudl be 86%…..LOL….oh well, a pass is a pass…I’ll take the 68 LOL
A SWOT analysis is regarded as a summary of all the models. The other models/ frameworks detail the specific areas in which the strength/ weakeness etc is found. Someone uploaded study notes in the documents section of forum some time ago and in it u will see that the models like P5F, PESTLE etc. are branches of SWOT. There’s no problem in using SWOT just that your answer may not be as detailed as someone else who used PESTLE who would have individually considered and identified the effects of legislation, government, etc.
I think since the question said using models or frameworks then the requirement would be to use more than 1 model or framework.
Just my thoughts 🙂
Guys:
Porter and PESTEL are both used to evaluate the external environment.
I used 9 M’s Model to evaluate the internal but nobody else seems to have used this. Everyone else used SWOT. Oh well….Hoping for reasonable pass. 🙂
It was generally a good paper. Glad to see I got the dividends right considering I didn’t remember the formula for dividend yield…but I reasoned it out. Forgot to deduct the divs. from Ret. Earnings though 🙁
But I got Q1 to balance BEAUTIFULLY!!! and in under 45 minutes too 😀 Q2 was sheer confusion and Q3 was a real nightmare. Q 4 & 5 were not too bad…but didn’t remember convertibles at all 🙁
Still hoping for a good pass though 😀
WOW!!! moshi…..you have your hands full with moderating so many sessions 🙂 Best wishes in them all 🙂
BIG 😀 !!!!! I’m sending u a friend request on OT. After u accept send me your e-mail address and your Facebook link if u have one.
LOL……hoping to find someone within my time zone to go over syllabus/questions with after working hours. If only I could put up an ad for real LOL…..
Time in weekday would be fine with me. Can’t make any sessions on a Sunday generally.
The weekday time isn’t too bad. But I guess I’ll have to miss the weekend sessions as before.
8 a.m. UK is 3 a.m. for me 🙁@aquaboy009 said:
an any 1 tell me that y the sales quantity and sales mix variances were fav and adverse as they asked in q.and what other kind of 2 variances we can get from above informatoion as in q 3.pleaseI put use planning and operational variances then went on to explain what they are.
For demand equation I got optimum units to sell was about 24,864 and price was about $344. Anyone else got same answer for this?
I wouldn’t say it was tough. I prefer to say challenging because challenges can be conquered 😀
From the posts I’ve seen I’m now more confident with what I did for Q1 🙂
Flexed budget required a lot of thinking but I eventually got it out I believe. Just concerned with the Energy Costs cause although budget and actual had it in 300,000+ I ended up with over 700,000 🙁 just sounds wrong
I guess it wouldn’t help to say my TPAR for C was 0.35 LOL…..I had NO idea what i was doing with that question. The only thing I got correct in it was probably quoting the TPAR formula…after that it all went downhill.
Balanced scorecard was a good question I did that first. I got ROI of 15% for Div A and 17.7% for Div B. RI was about $2.2m for A and about $2.55 for B. Then said if choose ROI as performance measure A will resist the project but B will accept and that although A has lower ROI it’s RI is higher.
Overall, very challenging…..just that throughput thing took me for a whirl….I expect to pass if only marginally. But a pass is a pass 😉
If it’s an exam where all the questions are compulsory nothing will happen. Someone has done it before. Just remember next time 😉
I got NPV as positive 1.288 million
I only studied exchange rates yesterday….I got Forward & money market as same amount 🙁
For WACC before I got something like 10.98 or something then after about 10.4…not sure I remember commenting it fell by 0.55%
Crazy exam…. result should be interestingBest wishes to everyone
LOL…..I hope he DOESN’T ask IHT…not my strongest point. Hope Corp. Tax is the 30 marker this sitting. I know how your head feels……….but soon it will all be over….best wishes to you tomorrow 😀
Just as it says!!! For every new complete question you will begin it on a fresh/new page.
That means when you do the first question u will start it on a new page and after you finish that question u will not start the next one right below it but u will begin the next question on a new page.
You should not answer the subsections eg. part a), b) c) etc on a new page. These subsections can all be done on the same page, if short enough or just follow each other. Also u need not answer the questions in sequence eg question 1 then 2 etc. You can answer the questions in any order but I believe they have said that you must answer the subsections in order.
I hope this answers your question 🙂
Hi:
Well the instructions are that during the 15 minutes you can make notes on the exam paper ONLY and can’t open your answer booklet. The instructions are on the front of the exam paper.
Feel free to write as much as u want on the exam paper….Just don’t touch the answer booklet until they tell u that u can begin. 😀Best wishes in your exam(s).
The only way to get updated answers is to get the updated Revision Kit. ACCA does not update it’s answers for tax. It gives the answers in accordance with the existing rules for that year which apply to the paper. You’re not helping yourself to pass the exam by relying on old information because the tax rules have changed in some areas.
