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Any step acquisition or disposal of sub?

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Was Q1 a Balance sheet or income statement??

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Nothing on European Debt crisis?

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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.

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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

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Passed – 64% 😀 Thank u Jesus!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Passed – 66% 😀 Could have been higher…but thank God for the pass 😀

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Passed with 73% 😀

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Overall it was challenging.

For Robert I thought he actually had 2 different views going. First statement to me was more of social ecologist – company caused problem so should fix it. Second statement to me was an Expedient.

Margaret is completely Pristine Capitalist.

That’s what I thought.

Best wishes in results everyone. Exams are finally done now I can sleep LOL 😀

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What topics came out?

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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 🙂

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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. 🙂

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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 😀

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6:30 pm UK is a good time for me

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WOW!!! moshi…..you have your hands full with moderating so many sessions 🙂 Best wishes in them all 🙂

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@acire

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.

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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…..

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Time in weekday would be fine with me. Can’t make any sessions on a Sunday generally.

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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 🙁

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@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.please

I put use planning and operational variances then went on to explain what they are.

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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?

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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 😉

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If it’s an exam where all the questions are compulsory nothing will happen. Someone has done it before. Just remember next time 😉

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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 interesting

Best wishes to everyone

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LAW ROCKED!!!!!! 😀 😀 😀

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