*** December 2021 ACCA APM exam – Instant Poll and comments ***

patrycjajot wrote:I had the same, hospital, bus company and cleaning company. Overall I thought it would have been ok if:
a) the information was not a complete overload. To get through everything in the time given is just unrealistic. I don’t buy ACCAs explanations that it’s to resemble real-life deadlines. Not enough time to make my answers coherent, just no time to think.<br>b) the requirements are all over the place – why not have just one exhibit with the requirements, why do they have to have at least 2-3 different ones? It makes it difficult to understand what is being asked as we have to jump between exhibits on a screen that looks like it belongs in the 90s. Or, alternatively, let us use multiple screens like we would at work.<br>Overall, I don’t expect a pass, and I’m completely exhausted. My last exam too…

Absolutely agree!
I don’t expect a pass, again as this is my 2nd attempt. Seriously thinking of switching to ATX, its less subjective

@lizzyzingel

I quess it was information at the 3 different levels of decision making…which was mentioned in the question ( Operational, Tactical and Strategic).

By the way, I’m not sure anymore but I hope I’m right.

For increasing product range,I mentioned the number of new products launched.I don ‘t remember the other two SOCIAL factors.

Anybody that did the new operating profit calculation for the bus question, old one was 190,000. New one I got 192,000, anybody else remember their answers?

For the VFM question in Q1 Airbus, what measures did you all write for Economy, Effectiveness and Efficiency?

ranganaherath wrote:For the Bonus scheme Q what did you writr

Management was 2 parts: 1) achievement of customer satisfaction and 2) profit or something

I answered:

Clear: not clear what success of survey means? Not specific enough. 3 out of 5? 4 out of 5?

Controllable: customer satisfaction influenced by many things. Manager doesn’t have control over what other departments do.

Profit (or whatever it was)

Clear: I think it was clear

Controllable: again, influenced by many factors

Motivation: management and non-management both get 5%/10% bonus. That’s not motivating for management. They have more responsibility and should get higher bonus.

Non-management:

I think it was something like profit or revenues for their retail unit.

Clear: clear only if they set a specific profit goal each year.

Controllable: no. Could be due to many factors, e.g. bad economy, bad location of retail shop

Motivating: yes. 5%/10% is motivating

Conclusion: don’t adopt because not clear/controllable. But current scheme also not great.

PEST analysis (suggest suitable measures only for S)
BSC (assess the given measure whether they are suitable for the given objectives and mission)
Bonus scheme Q
Management information at the three levels

Q2
A Score assessment of a company
Problems of qualitative measures such as A score

Q3
EMA costs types
input output analysis
Life cycle costing evaluation for a given product
can anyone provide answers of these questions