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I agree! It was so time pressuring and so difficult to think with so many boxes up on your screen!
Was given with a broken keyboard initially and then copy paste wasn’t working ..and time pressure couldn’t even complete whole paper even after knowing everything…its shame
This was a hard paper so I’m praying and trusting in God for a pass.
Q1 Kaizen, JIT, Six sigma, ERPS
Q2 ABM
Q3 BenchmarkingThis was a fair paper. No major or tricky calculations. Although I did run out of time slightly near the end and missed out on 9 Marks. I just pray that it doesn’t come back to bite me in the backside come results day.
I was little confused to find evaluation of Police CSF and KPIs. I was expecting evaluation of reports, EVA, balanced scorecard etc.
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The first and third case studies seemed quite similar to the ones from the Kaplan exam kit. Overall, it was okay. Although could’ve managed my time better. Let’s hope for the best!
A fair exam with NFP examined. Good cases on each question to really get your teeth stuck into
Why everyone had different exam paper?
Mine q1 was about Police ans CSF/KPIs for the non for profit public service organization with the last part Q1 iv league tables. I wish I rather got JIT and Kaizen question
Q1 Kaizen Costing
JIT
Six Sigma
ERPSQ2 was ABM
Q3 BenchmarkingWhat was the unit cost calculated at in Q2?
I also had the below questions:
Q1 Kaizen, JIT, Six sigma, ERPS
Q2 ABM
Q3 BenchmarkingWhat did you guys write on the benchmarking question? a) was about the drawbacks of benchmarking based on capacity or something. It was worth 12 marks, so I wasn’t able to come up with so many drawbacks, mostly wrote that the companies compared might have different business models and strategy, but I am pretty sure I failed this question, as I ran out of time. Then the second part was about some press release statements, really had to rush this question.
In general, I found this paper to be extremely challenging not because of the topics examined, but because of the information included in each of the questions, it was a lot 🙁
On JIT I found the annual benefits exceeding the costs, did the complete calculation including and excluding the one-off costs and benefits.
Then for the ABM, I remember I had unit costs for the first model much lower than based on the traditional overhead allocation; for the second model boots, the overheads were much higher based on ABC…I had same questions:
Q1 Kaizen, JIT, Six sigma, ERPS
Q2 ABM
Q3 BenchmarkingVery challenging and no time, I was not able to do much on Benchmarking. and I didnt even touch ERPS
I did the UK paper which was
NFP KPI
league tablesABM
Benchmarking
I found the sums for the activity based costing question really simple, just apportion the costs based on the ratios provided. I’m not used to APM being straightforward…have I missed something…
For the benchmarking question it asked about occupancy and supplied it as a % but the question stayed it was calculated by KPM * MILES TRAVELED. which didn’t make sense how they got a %
I just stayed different strategies
They were looking to remove seats ( therefore reduce occupancy)
They did shorter flights so would need to fill the plane twice
waffled abit as tan low on time on this question.The drawbacks on benchmarking was that pkm was not a good measire but although it seems like out comoany F was doing bad but they were providing cheap services short distance with more flights than D. So i suggested that since D flies less flights and fills up more people in one plane for longer distance flights, it wasnt a good conparison. Also for co2 emissions, it changes based on how much weight u carry. So F carrying little amount of passengers and lighing say 10 flights a day vs. D carrying more passengers with 2 flights a day, it may look like F has lower emmissions vut not in the total. So bad comparison. Then mentioned something like 92 percent claims to receive the service they wanted. It may look like people may complain about “extras” but what if food quality is higher as opposed to D giving it away free “included” in the more expensive ticket but bad quality or somethibg like that. Needs more verification, data and calculation. Also 2 star vs 5 star may be biased. More info needed.
So did we get different exam paper at the same time attempt or different papers at different time period ?
I got Police CSF and KPi at morning exam ?I got this same paper. Really difficult very time pressured. Didn’t do part (a) in question 2.
Lots of calculations in this paper.How did you perform the calculation in Jit point in Q1? What did you write in 6 Sigma question? Did you refer to DMAIC?
I found very hard Q1 due to many requirements instead of normal structure question while you can easily get easy marks on the assessment of the report that Is completely missing. Only referral to the objectives was done for Kaizen.
Please were we given labour cost of the staff in the ABM question. For some reason I may have forgot to look at the other requirements, I may have not calculate each cost activities.
Bilqees wrote:I got this same paper. Really difficult very time pressured. Didn’t do part (a) in question 2.
Lots of calculations in this paper.Was it police one?
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