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Annual Equivalent Growth versus Arithmetic Mean Growth?

Forums › Ask ACCA Tutor Forums › Ask the Tutor ACCA FM Exams › Annual Equivalent Growth versus Arithmetic Mean Growth?

  • This topic has 3 replies, 2 voices, and was last updated 4 years ago by John Moffat.
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  • August 20, 2020 at 7:15 pm #581325
    johnwick12
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    Hi Sir,

    I have begun practising Question C questions, and can see that some answers require me to to calculate the annual equivalent growth rates, whereas others require me to look instead at the arithmetic means growth?

    I’m unsure to why we would use one over the other and cannot seem to found this in the course material, sorry if I have missed it.

    Annual Equivalent Growth formula seen: (x/y)(indice: number of period) – 1

    Arithmetic Means Growth: Add percentage changes per year and divide by number of periods

    Thanks,

    John

    August 21, 2020 at 9:27 am #581371
    John Moffat
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    I assume that you are referring to the dividend growth rate.

    If so, then I cannot remember any questions in the exam which wanted the arithmetic mean. We should always use the geometric mean (which is what your first description is).

    August 21, 2020 at 11:31 am #581393
    johnwick12
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    Ok great thanks for answering. I’ll treat this as more of a red herring/outlier!

    August 21, 2020 at 1:04 pm #581406
    John Moffat
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    You are welcome 🙂

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