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Just wanted to ask, do i need to plus the 40 basis??? i didnt add it because the question say the maximum interest will only go over 5 and minimum 3.4
Hei mate:
There was no grant inside question 1, the fund receive from gov is a genuine transaction or sales relating to construction. Grant is anything that subsidy or sponsor receive from gov but in the case the gov just give funding to the mgt to build a construction.
It a mistake bro, just wanna tell u BCG matrix would never refer to gross profit margin, but u can use it to comment on the co performance.
Oh boy, I think u got little mess up with BCG matrix, it will never refer to gross profit margin, gross profit is used to comment on the co figure……
Ya u are right BCG only see on this two fact, but ashridge portfolio model is different ( it look at semilar of biz model and whether the co deserve CP attention)
Perhaps I wrote wrong, but I choose allien for farm is becos, the cp main biz nature is technology which are never linked to Swiftdale farm ( agriculture), so it had low feel. Besides the cp no longer wanted to spend any investment, so it had low benefit.
Ya u are right calculation and elaboration definitely give u good marks , perhaps for this co there are 2 possible answer, Good luck to u and pass P3 together 🙂
A cash cow is for a co that had dominating the market share (regardless of it gross profit) but the industry growth rate is dropped rapidly, so the farming co is do so
For the Question 2, I pretty sure about my answer was correct.
The corporate parent NCBT was a electronic merge with another technology co
-the first co (Swiftdale Farm) is a cash cow with high market share and low market growth. it was also a allien biz under ashridge ( low feel , low benefit).-the second co ( insurance) is a problem child/ question mark because he not holding the highest market share ( another competitors hold higher than it) and he has high market growth ) it was a value trap under ashridge ( low feel but high benefit)
– the 3rd co (Pait technology) which had semilar biz nature with parent is definitely a star with highest market share and market growth among the 3. Under ashridge it definitely is a heartland biz ( high feel and high benefit).
This is my analysis for questions 2. I just suprise that costing was appear in question 1 which is the only chapter that I skip, but overall this paper was ok and quite easy to attempt!!!!
Wish all of u can pass.