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

@aboodkhan said:
MCQs, part a) targetcost is a type of.. feedback, feedforwrd, doubleloop?
anyone had this MCQ,?

i am pretty sure the answer is feedforward.

i guessed feedforward too, not too sure tho

@khilen said:
Does anyone know how to complain to ACCA about this via the ACCA portal – i had the same issues about scrolling and also not being able to view the scenario and question at the same time!!!

I complained via the exam section in myacca under ‘mitigating circumstances’. My exam performance was affected through no fault of my own, so I didn’t want to just submit a general complaint which may be viewed differently

What was the loss made due to the vegan restaurant contract? In my calculations, company was making a loss of about $97 for fulfilling the contract instead of using TPAR. Milk 1st, Yoghurt 2nd, Cream 3rd in ranking. I calculated the TPAR using minutes.

Yeah I think it was pressing machine time was identified as the bottleneck and there was 200 hours available- this was for variable cost

The questions were ok. I struggled with Section C because it was so hard to read the question and type the answer in the tiny screen. when I was doing AAT, the questions would come in a pop up window so you could read and answer them with ease. I will write to ACCA and complain about it. I have no doubt that I would have to resit this one.

Just realising this is most likely wrong and I should have used the throughout formulas. Very annoying, most likely failed now

Now I’m worried from comments above re the milk & cream question in section c! I also calculated using contribution per limiting factor as I’m sure the question never mention the company uses throughput accounting? Would question not have to Mention they use throughput accounting to calculate in this way?

I’m sure I got the same results as you. Fingers crossed we were correct I really can’t remember seeing anything about throughput so fingers crossed

Does anyone know where to learn about sales price and volume – planning and operational variances? I couldn’t find it in the LSBF text book and don’t recall coming across it in the Open Tuition videos. I had it on the exam and it ruined me

@michaelrhys89 said:
Does anyone know where to learn about sales price and volume – planning and operational variances? I couldn’t find it in the LSBF text book and don’t recall coming across it in the Open Tuition videos. I had it on the exam and it ruined me

Yes this confused me also, I am not sure how it was a favourable variance when the Revised Sales Volume ( around 23,000 if I remember) was higher than the Budgeted Sales Volume. Surely should be unfavourable as you under budgeted

@Vyalden I had a very similar experience, guy next to me kept thumping the desk and really killing the keyboard, was incredibly hard to focus and concentrate. With this and the scrolling issue I definitely think that the ACCA should be giving the option to write traditionally. Sitting an exam on the computer is very different to sitting it written. I will be sending a complaint about losing time over the scrolling and about the issues with the keyboards. Could they not let us sit the exam on two screens? that would make sense if they are insisting on writing it all computer based.

@Jezza i had the same problem … i had difficulty 0 for an answer … took me quite a few tries before i accepted my answer 🙂