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*** ACCA Paper AA March 2020 Exam was.. Instant Poll and comments ***

Forums › ACCA Forums › ACCA AA Audit and Assurance Forums › *** ACCA Paper AA March 2020 Exam was.. Instant Poll and comments ***

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  • March 2, 2020 at 11:00 am #563694
    opentuition_team
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    How was your ACCA Paper AA March 2020 Exam? Please post your comments below, and vote in the Instant Poll


    March 2, 2020 at 11:06 am #563705
    coldpillow
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    Much easier than I expected!

    March 2, 2020 at 11:34 am #563708
    jareerabedin
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    hey !!
    I know you from reddit!!!
    same here way easier than expected
    !!!

    March 2, 2020 at 1:12 pm #563718
    robynemilie
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    I got the questions on Scarlet, Whittaker and Everest. Anyone else?

    March 2, 2020 at 1:54 pm #563730
    sjkk
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    I got the same questions can u msg me somewhere so we can discuss about the questions. I got the exact same questions

    March 2, 2020 at 2:06 pm #563731
    thiamsheriff
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    Alhamdulillah! The paper wasn’t difficult as was it during December session. Hopeful of a good grade. In Sha Allah

    March 2, 2020 at 2:07 pm #563732
    thiamsheriff
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    Woooo!! I got the same question, and was well answered.. I’m from Sierra Leone. You?

    March 2, 2020 at 3:22 pm #563752
    JohnLa1
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    Paper was much easier than I expected.
    Finished with 60 minutes left so went back to add more detail to my answers.

    Audit risk, internal control and substantive procedure questions were very standard.
    Had a nice ratio question for an easy 4 mark’s.

    March 2, 2020 at 6:20 pm #563776
    sjkk
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    Im from pakistan add ne someshere so we cab discyss few things about today

    March 2, 2020 at 6:24 pm #563777
    azadcerm
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    The paper was extremely difficult and missed up with missing so many thmngs………

    March 2, 2020 at 8:07 pm #563784
    firefly777
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    I pretty much went into the exam knowing hardly knowing anything (the definitions really were not sticking – I am going for a FR resit too so my time was limited on both subjects). Thankfully a third of the paper were tabular questions which I think I’m good at. I went in thinking I’m going to fail… but came out thinking (hoping) I might have made over 50%. I had the ratio question too. Didn’t like section A much.

    March 2, 2020 at 11:07 pm #563792
    robynemilie
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    Hi sjkk, I’m not sure if we can message via opentuition but feel free to message me on Reddit if you have it. My username is pessirnist. Would be happy to discuss the questions with you if you still want to talk about it. 🙂

    March 2, 2020 at 11:34 pm #563794
    lee76
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    Not sure where everyone else in the World sat their exam, but did this as a resit, thought this exam was unbelievably difficult compared to December’s exam. Pretty sure I’ll be resitting again.

    March 3, 2020 at 4:04 am #563798
    sjkk
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    Just sent you a message there made a new reddit account just to talk about the exam i hope u got it

    March 3, 2020 at 11:04 am #563834
    Shehzad
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    Hi I have got same questions

    how did you find those do you rememebr any mcqs

    March 3, 2020 at 11:34 am #563842
    sjkk
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    Yes i do atleast few of them.

    March 3, 2020 at 11:37 am #563843
    JohnLa1
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    Did anyone else have the section B question relating to the penalties for driving fines (17 x $50k) ?
    Bit of a strange one on how to perform substantive procedures on.

    March 3, 2020 at 3:16 pm #563881
    ronblanco
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    @JohnLa1 said:
    Did anyone else have the section B question relating to the penalties for driving fines (17 x $50k) ?
    Bit of a strange one on how to perform substantive procedures on.

    Yes I had this one. Quite odd. I talked about requesting information from the driving authority. Got a bit stuck though.

    March 3, 2020 at 3:22 pm #563884
    JohnLa1
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    @ronblanco said:
    Yes I had this one. Quite odd. I talked about requesting information from the driving authority. Got a bit stuck though.

    I gave the same sort of response, clarify if they have the resources to pay the debt plus if they intend to take legal action against the former employee to salvage some money back.

    March 3, 2020 at 3:25 pm #563885
    jesseady1
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    I did, I think they was asking about substantive test on provisions/contingencies

    March 3, 2020 at 4:13 pm #563917
    hlomka
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    could you please share the resource

    March 3, 2020 at 4:54 pm #563937
    brown200995
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    For the audit report did you recognise that the action/complaint was brought forward in March (within the FY) so was present at the year end? Then it was material so qualified except for.. material disagreement ? They tried to catch out by saying the claim from the authorities was post year end..

    Also, what did you think sub procedures could you list for the driving penalties? I struggled with that but at least it was only worth 4/5 (?) marks.

    I thought the MCQS were as hard as I have seen for F8 – very few questions where it was a one choice answer so pretty high risk on that regard. If I got 5/6 out of 15 I’d be impressed!

    Let me know thoughts

    March 3, 2020 at 5:35 pm #563951
    JohnLa1
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    – Confirm that the company has the necessary resources to cover the penalty as could lead to going concern issues.
    – Agree to post year end cashbook to see if the fines were paid.
    – Obtain the staff handbook to confirm that the break times are included and staff made aware.
    – Talk to management if there are are tracking devices that could prove drivers were stationery and taking their required breaks.
    – Speak to management if any additional drivers were to be employed to reduce the hours that existing drivers are going to take.

    Last 2 are a bit of a stretch…

    March 3, 2020 at 5:36 pm #563952
    JohnLa1
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    @brown200995 said:
    For the audit report did you recognise that the action/complaint was brought forward in March (within the FY) so was present at the year end? Then it was material so qualified except for.. material disagreement ? They tried to catch out by saying the claim from the authorities was post year end..

    Also, what did you think sub procedures could you list for the driving penalties? I struggled with that but at least it was only worth 4/5 (?) marks.

    I thought the MCQS were as hard as I have seen for F8 – very few questions where it was a one choice answer so pretty high risk on that regard. If I got 5/6 out of 15 I’d be impressed!

    Let me know thoughts

    Yeah i noted that is should have been made a provision at Y/E as the likelihood was “probable”

    March 3, 2020 at 9:09 pm #564006
    anama
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    Did anyone sit these in Dublin, if so which centre and any issues?

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