APM*** December 2023 ACCA APM exam – Instant Poll and comments ***

Similar to you I just put the effect of the methods on the divisions as best as I could. Still can’t believe they put a question for that worth 14 marks in the exam. Don’t believe it was a fair exam at all

The exam is started to be more like a one side check, it is not checking your broad knowledge of apm 2 budget related questions in one exam , fully overloaded excel, Building block model- It was already checked in September 2023. I read Bonus scheme exhibit maybe 5 times and did not get a point of this % increases and what author was trying to say There is already no questions for report evaluation which was at least one big standard task which I really miss and on basis of which all the learning materials are built

Really surprised with budget questions i.e. the budget styles. I can vaguely remember that from the study text, I'm surprised the same themes kept coming out in each question such as the budgets and divisions....

Yep, the whole exam had the same theme to it, there was no balance to it at all and a few q's were very vague. ACCA usually send a survey out after the exams asking what students thought... I'll definitely be making a few comments around this.

Performance hierarchy is Strategic goals being translated down to tactical goals and ultimately operational goals. Mission statement guides the hierarchy.

That makes sense. Thank you. So no marks for me on that one then

I think that the volume of information in this paper was too much for the time we had. Hope they will take a look at the exams and recalibrate the questions.

Got the same exam. In fact, I thought everybody would get the same one... I wasn't a fan of Q2 and Q3 either!