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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 ***

  • This topic has 204 replies, 40 voices, and was last updated 7 years ago by suay.
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  • December 6, 2017 at 7:03 pm #421244
    heychi
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    @sanjaymehra said:
    I marked the option with both northern and southern because we were not given with targeted roi by head office and there was not much difference in both roi. So i marked that both of them should be continued forward.

    The current ROI was in the question. It was definitely the Northern division.

    December 6, 2017 at 7:13 pm #421251
    sanjaymehra
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    Mine too

    December 6, 2017 at 7:14 pm #421252
    odean
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    @anastassiya777 said:
    U manage to calculate them or just assumption?!)

    Well my answer was close to 800 for the life cycle cost and I calculated the target cost of 96 and the estimated cost 106. So I just divided 106/96*10000 = 11042 unit

    December 6, 2017 at 7:15 pm #421254
    odean
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    @rajeshram said:
    What’s the answer for the rolling budget sum? Was that 890?

    I get that as well

    December 6, 2017 at 7:37 pm #421262
    heychi
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    Guys there was a question about continuing to make a product that was budgeted to make a loss. Options for valid reasons were:

    To gain market market share and another option. The question asked which reasons were valid/acceptable – Was the answer both?

    December 6, 2017 at 7:41 pm #421264
    heychi
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    A few more:

    Which chair should be they keep on making?

    Quoting the transfer price at minimum to gain a new customer implications:

    I put it would both reduce the perceived value and it wouldn’t be easy to raise the price later without loosing the customer. something like that.

    December 6, 2017 at 7:42 pm #421265
    rajeshram
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    @heychi said:
    Guys there was a question about continuing to make a product that was budgeted to make a loss. Options for valid reasons were:

    To gain market market share and another option. The question asked which reasons were valid/acceptable – Was the answer both?

    Another option was to sell as complementary product ? I selected only 1 i.e only complementary products, hbu?

    December 6, 2017 at 7:42 pm #421266
    anastassiya
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    @odean20 said:
    Well my answer was close to 800 for the life cycle cost and I calculated the target cost of 96 and the estimated cost 106. So I just divided 106/96*10000 = 11042 unit

    I also find taget and estimated costs but tried several times by different ways but didnt had such as ur way to calculate it.

    December 6, 2017 at 7:42 pm #421267
    sanjaymehra
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    I marked neither of them.

    December 6, 2017 at 7:44 pm #421268
    anastassiya
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    @rajeshram said:
    Another option was to sell as complementary product ? I selected only 1 i.e only complementary products, hbu?

    I also choosed only complimentary as about raise price for not profit making product seems not realistic.who knows)

    December 6, 2017 at 7:57 pm #421270
    viscera
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    What was the answer for the quarterly rolling budget question… I choose 880,000 as 3 months in a quarter and increase was 10,000 per month .. I don’t remember it all by I’m not sure I did it right… How foolish of me to loose 2 marks for a just a simple question as that if I’m wrong with 880,000 🙁

    December 6, 2017 at 8:00 pm #421271
    viscera
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    How did you calculated 880,000… It was quarterly increasing … How can u say 880,00p

    December 6, 2017 at 8:02 pm #421272
    heychi
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    @anastassiya777 said:
    I also choosed only complimentary as about raise price for not profit making product seems not realistic.who knows)

    I think with penetration pricing they can also sell products at a loss to gain market share.

    I also found this on google so I put both options are valid:

    https://smallbusiness.chron.com/companies-keep-unprofitable-product-line-10280.html

    December 6, 2017 at 8:04 pm #421273
    viscera
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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 used C-P/P formula for every other possible calculation .. Because nothing was quiet shown

    December 6, 2017 at 8:12 pm #421278
    rajeshram
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    @heychi said:
    I think with penetration pricing they can also sell products at a loss to gain market share.

    I also found this on google so I put both options are valid:

    https://smallbusiness.chron.com/companies-keep-unprofitable-product-line-10280.html

    Yes that makes sense , but what I thought was with selling at a loss , the mindset of costumers would be that the product is of inferior quality and hence that might not increase market share ..

    December 6, 2017 at 8:14 pm #421279
    shallom
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    The last question about their performance. I used interest cover as well for the the new loan, but there was no interest cover since the made a loss. So mentioned a bit about that. .

    @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

    December 6, 2017 at 8:29 pm #421281
    sonia.ataaye
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    I think it was 81%

    December 6, 2017 at 8:31 pm #421282
    sonia.ataaye
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    @sonia.ataaye said:
    I think it was 81%

    December 6, 2017 at 8:39 pm #421285
    andrew
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    @viscera said:
    I used C-P/P formula for every other possible calculation .. Because nothing was quiet shown

    What do you mean by C-P/P? Thanks

    December 6, 2017 at 8:44 pm #421286
    heychi
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    @sonia.ataaye said:
    I think it was 81%

    It was – The first 16 units is to the power 1/4 so yeah 81%.

    December 6, 2017 at 8:46 pm #421287
    heychi
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    @rajeshram said:
    Yes that makes sense , but what I thought was with selling at a loss , the mindset of costumers would be that the product is of inferior quality and hence that might not increase market share ..

    I get you – they didn’t ask for the effect of it though, just the reason(s) why they would in the first place.

    December 6, 2017 at 9:04 pm #421293
    shallom
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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.

    I got $370 for lifecycle cost

    December 6, 2017 at 9:09 pm #421294
    anastassiya
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    The worse thing that we will not know the right answers for mcqs after so much discussions and opinions of it!:(

    December 6, 2017 at 9:10 pm #421295
    anastassiya
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    @viscera said:
    What was the answer for the quarterly rolling budget question… I choose 880,000 as 3 months in a quarter and increase was 10,000 per month .. I don’t remember it all by I’m not sure I did it right… How foolish of me to loose 2 marks for a just a simple question as that if I’m wrong with 880,000 🙁

    but it was stated that per quarter 10k increase not per month isnt it?!

    December 6, 2017 at 9:12 pm #421296
    shallom
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    @odean20 said:
    The learning rate is 75% D 38.6875/90^(1/3)

    This was for the 16th unit so it should have been to the power of 4 (^4) not ^3

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