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Petya,
I had used the same approach – firstly calculated ROI and RI for existing situation without any adjustments.
After that I’ve calculated controllable profit and capital employed for each proposal following with RI and ROI.
At the end I’ve realised that I have completely forgotton about cash, so made no adjustments for it.
I think that you were right about excluding cash flow from buying the machine.I went with 1 month as it referenced the figures were based on the first two months if I recall, rather than them being total figures for the two months.
I wrote an exam after nearly 12 years. An exam that wasn’t a language exam. So this PM exam was like going back to school
I gave the paper based version and I attempted 92% of the paper. Had to leave the an 8 mark bit in the bed and mattress question.
Section A and B had a few theory questions that I was weak at. The through put question seemed challenging to me.
Just hope I can clear this exam. I pray and hope the same for everyone else here.
Yes – it’s in the examiners guides and technical article on performance evaluation. It’s done to ensure that one mistake doesn’t prevent further marks being earned.
I hope the five questions that are going to be picked for whatever reason and are not going to be part of our marks,
would be out of my unanswered or wrongly answered ones.@robertroddy said:
Yes – it’s in the examiners guides and technical article on performance evaluation. It’s done to ensure that one mistake doesn’t prevent further marks being earned.What were your Part B scenarios? I remember one about badmintons & racquets and one about cakes but can’t recall the third one.
@snehamurria said:
What were your Part B scenarios? I remember one about badmintons & racquets and one about cakes but can’t recall the third one.I had scenario about racqets.
Didn’t like it 🙂@khilen said:
omg I had the same issue!!! I went for 1 month in the end!!!I also had Best Co Night Hotel question – I only did 2 workings for financial performance measure (ROCE and Operating profit margin) and 2 on NFP measures such as Customer satisfaction gone down and one more???
I calculated the % increase or decrease from prior year for each revenue stream as well as the operating costs. I made reference to the fact that the increase in operating costs was likely due to the poor ecomony, eg inflation etc.
NFP measures I discussed the customer satisfaction score decreasing, the quality of service decreasing (bearing in mind Best Night pride themselves on high quality) and the fact that customers commented that the hotel rooms were in desperate need of being refurbished. These factors made it clear that Best Night co were likely to lose repeat customers and wouldn’t be increasing sales until these problems were solved. I advised things like staff training to increase the quality of service…
Thanks yes that’s look better
Did you remember what was your ans in 2 mark question where ilthey ask what would be budgeted cost for next month
I just put revised cost for next month budget.Did you get McQ regarding usage of package it’s something like to pack the ingredient or so
Do you remember the ans
snehamurria
One question was about variances (for two different TV) – so had to calculate sales mix variance.
One more question was about target costing. Rather tricky, I should admit (and I was sure, that target costing is the area I know almost perfectly).@robertroddy said:
Parts A and B were tricky testing part C was tough with both Transfer pricing and incremental costing questions containing a lot of info to digest is the time available -did anyone else get the same questions??Anyone had question about Sportswatches, Tymewatches in section B?
And in section C about 2 Train companies, one being government company in a bigger country, other being private company in a smaller country, and question was asking to assess companies based on their NFPM???
I dont see any comments on this questions ?Dear all) The only really issue for me- with currency spot rates((( please tell me: the question was
Company currency- $
Spot Rates 1.1-1.6 Eur/Doll
How many $ obtain company if its exchanges EUR 300 000, received from overseas customer..As I understand- 1$=1.6 Eur , so the company will receive 187 500 $….
I understand that its very strange for current cross-course..
@gahrorova said:
Anyone had question about Sportswatches, Tymewatches in section B?
And in section C about 2 Train companies, one being government company in a bigger country, other being private company in a smaller country, and question was asking to assess companies based on their NFPM???
I dont see any comments on this questions ?Hey I got the same questions. How did you assess the 2 companies? I only gave one ratio per heading, it’s too complicated for me.
@ceriset said:
It looks like I was the only one with different C section questions :).1) RI and ROI impact on divisional manager’s decision
2) Optimum production plan calculation with scarce resource.Anyone else here with the same variant?
I had the optimum production plan too, couldn’t really decide what the minimum penalty was. In part (a) was the constraint machine hours?
Just copy and send this message to ACCA from your ACCA registered email to let them know what actually happen in the exam with students …
“I want this message to be forward to the CEO/MD of the ACCA Headquarter. Yesterday I sat for the F5 / PM exam. Now I want to ask you to why are you taking money to us through an exam fees ? if you beg to us for $142 dollar we would give you for free !! But you have taken this money by a crime! Yes its a crime ! All we have study from our study text, exam kit and other online resources has gone in vain. Exam question is completely different and complicate from our study resources. What kind of behave is this! And we get a very short time for a very big exam question that to complete in 3 hour 20 minutes. This is not possible , you may take a survey.. And the exam fees are too high though your exam costs become lower due to CBE system. Despite of this you are taking high prices from the students just to make a high profit?! ACCA become business organization not Educational organization. You don’t have humanity at all ! No middle class family students can deserve ACCA degree! Last year we request ACCA to lower the Annual fees but they didn’t (did for new students only). We student of Bangladesh asking you why you doing this to the students? I urge to ACCA to take into account all my complain and requesting to take a good step which would be good for all students, affiliates and members.
Sincerely,
A student of ACCA.”
I am slightly confused – I had absolutely different questions in C section. The first one was about optimum production plan, the second – about RI and ROI.
Variances were tested in B section in my exam variant.No learning effect or risk were tested in exam.
I got the same question. I could not do the optimim production plan question. Too complicated, the time for the exam is not enough. Not one question on performance management, risk, learning effect.
@hanazono said:
I had the optimum production plan too, couldn’t really decide what the minimum penalty was. In part (a) was the constraint machine hours?Yes, the constraint was machine time.
@joganah said:
I am slightly confused – I had absolutely different questions in C section. The first one was about optimum production plan, the second – about RI and ROI.
Variances were tested in B section in my exam variant.No learning effect or risk were tested in exam.
I got the same question. I could not do the optimim production plan question. Too complicated, the time for the exam is not enough. Not one question on performance management, risk, learning effect.
I somehow managed to answer the first part of this question. Not sure, that my answer is correct, though.
@gahrorova said:
Anyone had question about Sportswatches, Tymewatches in section B?
And in section C about 2 Train companies, one being government company in a bigger country, other being private company in a smaller country, and question was asking to assess companies based on their NFPM???
I dont see any comments on this questions ?I had the watches-case in B section,
but I cannot remember much from thisWho else got the question with the Hotel and Water Park?
What conclusion did you arrived to? I kept both the Hotel and the Water park open….Second question on part C with Beds and Mattress, transfer pricing…buying from external supplier was improving company’s profits according to my results.
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