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*** ACCA F5 December 2017 Exam was.. Instant Poll and comments ***

Forums › ACCA Forums › ACCA PM Performance Management Forums › *** ACCA F5 December 2017 Exam was.. Instant Poll and comments ***

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  • December 6, 2017 at 4:31 pm #421118
    heychi
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    @musmang44 said:
    Guys for that variable cost co paring and buying outside question was the answer D ? In first 15 mcqs ?
    What about the answer to thay waste normal abnormal los question ?

    I think this confused me too but remembered conventional costs were raw materials and labour. I remember selecting normal loss was conventional but I can’t remember what I thought for abnormal loss. I remember selecting C though.

    December 6, 2017 at 4:34 pm #421119
    heychi
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    @rajeshram said:
    ROI q3 I believe only one manager would go for it as the ROI was higher than than the target ROI ,

    I put differential and opportunity for relevant costing

    The last one I believe it’s ERP as question said something like integrate

    Anyone with me on thesee

    I have the exact same answers.

    I also remember for ROI I said only one would go for it too. The manager on the left column.

    I also got Enterprise system for that one!

    I also put differential and opportunity costs too 🙂

    December 6, 2017 at 4:38 pm #421123
    heychi
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    I’d be interested to know what people put for:

    Characteristics of service question. I actually thought they were all characteristics lol.

    Figures for the Variances – sales mix was favourable for me and sales quantity was averse.

    Figures for profits: $301 or something and $449 for the other budgeted.

    OAR – $146 per unit.

    Did anyone get the same?

    December 6, 2017 at 4:40 pm #421125
    rajeshram
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    Haha, I also put primary external info for the type of data question ,

    I was stuck in the life cycle costing question and ended up randomly selecting the last option

    What’s was ur answer for throughput accounting question I.e q14 I guess

    December 6, 2017 at 4:44 pm #421129
    heychi
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    @rajeshram said:
    Haha, I also put primary external info for the type of data question ,

    I was stuck in the life cycle costing question and ended up randomly selecting the last option

    What’s was ur answer for throughput accounting question I.e q14 I guess

    hahaha me too! my answer didn’t match any of the options but I think I guessed the last option too – the 1433.33 or something right?

    What was the throughput question again?

    December 6, 2017 at 4:46 pm #421130
    rajeshram
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    I selected option which said , services can be stored and used or something , my understanding was services are perishable ,

    Regarding the Variance question – boom ! Got the exact same numbers

    December 6, 2017 at 4:48 pm #421132
    anastassiya
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    @heychi said:
    I’d be interested to know what people put for:

    Characteristics of service question. I actually thought they were all characteristics lol.

    Figures for the Variances – sales mix was favourable for me and sales quantity was averse.

    Figures for profits: $301 or something and $449 for the other budgeted.

    OAR – $146 per unit.

    Did anyone get the same?

    about services the difference was at point of heterogenious and homogenious,not all was applicable

    December 6, 2017 at 4:49 pm #421133
    heychi
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    @rajeshram said:
    I selected option which said , services can be stored and used or something , my understanding was services are perishable ,

    Regarding the Variance question – boom ! Got the exact same numbers

    Omg this gives me hope haha! and did you get weird decimals as well in between the sales mix variance? like they weren’t whole numbers. I worried I was doing it wrong.

    I also selected the last option about perishability too. The others made more sense to me really.

    December 6, 2017 at 4:50 pm #421134
    mohammad ali
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    how much units answer close target cost?

    December 6, 2017 at 4:50 pm #421135
    anastassiya
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    @heychi said:
    hahaha me too! my answer didn’t match any of the options but I think I guessed the last option too – the 1433.33 or something right?

    What was the throughput question again?

    About life cycle putted the same answer because from calculations it was only one number more or less close to variants of answers)))

    December 6, 2017 at 4:53 pm #421136
    heychi
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    @anastassiya777 said:
    about services the difference was at point of heterogenious and homogenious,not all was applicable

    Ahh that was it! This is the right answer.

    December 6, 2017 at 4:53 pm #421137
    anastassiya
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    @musmang44 said:
    How much u ll lopse if u used contribution per unit :'(

    Unfortunately i also used cobtribution.i realised it but was too late to change the figures,time pressure.i believe it was 8 marks so assuming maximum 2 marks for profit indication to loose.

    December 6, 2017 at 4:53 pm #421138
    dipatil
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    @heychi said:
    I’d be interested to know what people put for:

    Characteristics of service question. I actually thought they were all characteristics lol.

    Figures for the Variances – sales mix was favourable for me and sales quantity was averse.

    Figures for profits: $301 or something and $449 for the other budgeted.

    OAR – $146 per unit.

    Did anyone get the same?

    regrading services there was ne mentioning homogenity or sth like tht which is incorrect

    December 6, 2017 at 4:56 pm #421139
    heychi
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    @anastassiya777 said:
    About life cycle putted the same answer because from calculations it was only one number more or less close to variants of answers)))

    For question 31, what did you use to assess the performance?

    They were two different products and only one year was available really.

    I used Gross/Net profit margins and then used the variances.

    December 6, 2017 at 4:56 pm #421140
    dipatil
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    which were the sales mi variance and the quantity variances?

    December 6, 2017 at 4:58 pm #421141
    anastassiya
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    @aglong said:
    I’d be interested to know how other people approached the last question – as there was no BS sheet info, couldnt perform ROCE (etc.) calculations… apart from gross and net profit margin %’s, what other calculations did other people use?

    Thanks

    i calculated finance costs cover ratio assuming it was interest costs.also some numbers about changes in costs that were in the scenario like decrease 50% of admin costs expected and generally sales % changes.indeed without balance sheet not much to calculate.

    December 6, 2017 at 5:03 pm #421144
    rajeshram
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    @heychi said:
    Omg this gives me hope haha! and did you get weird decimals as well in between the sales mix variance? like they weren’t whole numbers. I worried I was doing it wrong.

    I also selected the last option about perishability too. The others made more sense to me really.

    Yes very weird decimal points , I am more worried about the relevan costing in section B , did anyone select 110k for new machine cost ?

    December 6, 2017 at 5:04 pm #421145
    anastassiya
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    @heychi said:
    For question 31, what did you use to assess the performance?

    They were two different products and only one year was available really.

    I used Gross/Net profit margins and then used the variances.

    if u mean about 3 mrks for calculations?i actually used this 10% increase in market so assumed we could divide on planning and operational additional variances to calculate.not sure if it was right.

    December 6, 2017 at 5:07 pm #421149
    anastassiya
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    @rajeshram said:
    Yes very weird decimal points , I am more worried about the relevan costing in section B , did anyone select 110k for new machine cost ?

    i choosed 120k.indeed relevant costing area not the best.

    December 6, 2017 at 5:11 pm #421152
    heychi
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    @rajeshram said:
    Yes very weird decimal points , I am more worried about the relevan costing in section B , did anyone select 110k for new machine cost ?

    I put $90,000 for that one.

    December 6, 2017 at 5:16 pm #421155
    odean
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    @heychi said:
    I put $90,000 for that one.

    I think it was lowest figure between the current purchase price 120000 and the resal value of 9000. Therefore 90000

    December 6, 2017 at 5:18 pm #421156
    jgoodall
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    I got $110,000 for the Relevant Cost Question, as the machine could have been used to produce a separate product making $110,000, therefore being the opportunity cost.

    Last question i calculated Gross Profit Margin, Net Profit Margin, Interest Cover and talked about the 50% admin expenses, the compensation costs and the foreign currency fall of 25% etc.

    Anyone get what the Lifecycle Costing one was? I remember guessing that one.

    December 6, 2017 at 5:20 pm #421158
    rajeshram
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    @jgoodall said:
    I got $110,000 for the Relevant Cost Question, as the machine could have been used to produce a separate product making $110,000, therefore being the opportunity cost.

    Last question i calculated Gross Profit Margin, Net Profit Margin, Interest Cover and talked about the 50% admin expenses, the compensation costs and the foreign currency fall of 25% etc.

    Anyone get what the Lifecycle Costing one was? I remember guessing that one.

    Lol seems like everyone has taken a guess for that question ?

    December 6, 2017 at 5:22 pm #421159
    anastassiya
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    What about learning rate to calculate?which figure?anybody….

    December 6, 2017 at 5:22 pm #421160
    heychi
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    Questions on learning curve:

    1. 21 minutes for 100th unit
    2. Can’t remember the cost I selected. I think i chose $375 but I was running out of time so that was a guess.
    3. Reason for the rate at 80% was it? Can’t remember if this was better or worse that expected?? If it was worse I put that the new customers needed the bricks to be cut different from standard and something else.

    I remember a question bout the Margin of Safety and I put 50%.

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