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  • June 13, 2011 at 3:23 pm #84686
    Anonymous
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    Exam paper was very difficult,i have practice nearly all possible exam question,non of them looks like Flexible Budget and Throughput Accounting questions.This two make me feel up sad,remain Question 1,2 & 4 was OK.I pray that i will at least get 50 :)).

    June 13, 2011 at 3:23 pm #84687
    hlclark
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    Well wot a nightmare that was! just want to say thanks to the examiner for stressing all the changes she was gonna make. I spent hours revising stuff that i didn’t need….environmemal accounting? Couldn’t work out what 2 do for expected values, had a go at throughput put I know I’ve got it wrong. Pretty tough paper I thought.

    June 13, 2011 at 3:25 pm #84688
    khanasad
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    any body remember the ansure of TPAR ???????
    Q3 was veryyyyyyy difficult,,,, the rest of paper was really lovely…..

    June 13, 2011 at 3:26 pm #84689
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    What’s so hard in the throughput accounting? I thought the examiner given us the bottleneck process, and even calculated 2 of the TPAR ratio for us? The “factory cost” calculation was also very straightforward – just add up the 250k with the salary of all the nurses and doctors. Did I missed something?

    June 13, 2011 at 3:28 pm #84690
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    To b honest with u guys, that was a fair exam, it was just the time factor

    June 13, 2011 at 3:28 pm #84691
    ali.hbc@gmail.com
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    PAPER WAS BALANCE BUT VERY UNCOMMON TOPICS HE EXAMINED
    NOT A FAIR DEAL AT ALL.

    June 13, 2011 at 3:29 pm #84692
    dianaa
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    how did u solve the pay off table?

    June 13, 2011 at 3:31 pm #84693
    nomipk3
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    I did 4 full questions, left the flexed budget one as I had spent too much time on Q1 setting up the profit table. Can any body share how they worked out the profit table? I really enjoyed doing Q2, 4, and 5. I am hoping for a pass at least.

    June 13, 2011 at 3:34 pm #84694
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    yeah question 5 was ok

    June 13, 2011 at 3:37 pm #84695
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    Q1a has 9 different possible profits ?

    June 13, 2011 at 3:40 pm #84696
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    @dianaa said:
    how did u solve the pay off table?

    I had the three different production levels on the right hand side (350,000 bags, 280,000 bags and 200,000 bags), and the three different weather conditions along the top.

    The contribution per bag was $5. Depending on the amount produced and the weather, I basically did (Production x $5) – (Difference between Production and Demand x $0.50), as if they weren’t sold it cost $0.50 to be scrapped.

    That’s what I put, I hope it is right as I’d like the 8 marks!

    June 13, 2011 at 3:42 pm #84697
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    Q1a has 9 different possible profits ?

    June 13, 2011 at 3:43 pm #84698
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    Can anyone remember their answers for Question 4 part b), when working out the return on investment and residual income?

    I think I got 15% for Division A, and 18% for Division B (ROI)

    The residual income came out somewhere around $2.2 – $2.5m for each I think, although Division A had the higher RI.

    June 13, 2011 at 3:45 pm #84699
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    Can anyone remember their answers for Question 4 part b), when working out the return on investment and residual income?

    I think I got 15% for Division A, and 18% for Division B (ROI)

    The residual income came out somewhere around $2.2 – $2.5m for each I think, although Division A had the higher RI.

    I got the same answers. 🙂

    June 13, 2011 at 3:46 pm #84700
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    With Question 5 and the Throughput accounting, I think I worked out procedure C’s ratio as 8.7 something?

    Then for the mix I recommended that they fulfil demand for procedures B, then A, and then use the balance of the surgeon’s time on procedure C, as C had the lowest TA ratio.

    There wasn’t enough surgeon’s time left to completely fulfil the demand for C. It think there was about enough left for ~500 procedures.

    June 13, 2011 at 3:47 pm #84701
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    @bibavuk said:
    Can anyone remember their answers for Question 4 part b), when working out the return on investment and residual income?

    I think I got 15% for Division A, and 18% for Division B (ROI)

    The residual income came out somewhere around $2.2 – $2.5m for each I think, although Division A had the higher RI.

    I got the same answers. 🙂

    AWESOME 😀

    June 13, 2011 at 3:49 pm #84702
    pissukade
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    I do not think this is a difficult paper. If you did 5 revision Qs in this open tution alone you can get atleast most parts of 3 questions correctly ( maximax, learning curves and throughput). that alone will give you enough to pass. Also flexed budget is so easy so 4 out of 5 questions can be done easy.
    Q4 was the only one tricky for me.
    Thank you open tution

    June 13, 2011 at 3:49 pm #84703
    nomipk3
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    @curiousmeerkat said:
    I had the three different production levels on the right hand side (350,000 bags, 280,000 bags and 200,000 bags), and the three different weather conditions along the top.

    The contribution per bag was $5. Depending on the amount produced and the weather, I basically did (Production x $5) – (Difference between Production and Demand x $0.50), as if they weren’t sold it cost $0.50 to be scrapped.

    That’s what I put, I hope it is right as I’d like the 8 marks!

    Hi,

    How did you work out demand? Based on probabilities?

    June 13, 2011 at 3:50 pm #84704
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    I got enough time to do 504 C procedures…

    June 13, 2011 at 3:50 pm #84705
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    I think there was a lot of calculations to do within the time. TPAR I changed the one of the calculations 3 times. There was a lot of information in the scenarios which were all relevant to the question but not enough time to absorb the scenario – go go go !!

    June 13, 2011 at 3:51 pm #84706
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    The question about the Air Conditioning company, I think I got:

    P = 750 – 0.0015Q

    My mind went blank with learning curves, but I got 1.06…ish hours from the equation. I’m not sure this is right though, as that would be the cumulative time instead of the actual time for the 100th unit. Although, even if I get it wrong I should still be able to get marks for the next bit?

    Using the adjusted labour time I got the marginal cost to be about $50.54 ish and put that into the demand equation to get something like a selling price of $400.

    Finally I after talking about the pricing strategies I recommended that the company use skimming as their patent prevented any competition for 2 years, and they should use a higher price to recoup the R&D costs and emphasise to customers how much more efficient their product is.

    June 13, 2011 at 3:52 pm #84707
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    @bibavuk said:
    I got enough time to do 504 C procedures…

    Yeah that sounds about it.

    June 13, 2011 at 3:53 pm #84708
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    no u did not miss anything. that was the right thing to do in no 5

    June 13, 2011 at 3:53 pm #84709
    nomipk3
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    @curiousmeerkat said:
    The question about the Air Conditioning company, I think I got:

    P = 750 – 0.0015Q

    My mind went blank with learning curves, but I got 1.06…ish hours from the equation. I’m not sure this is right though, as that would be the cumulative time instead of the actual time for the 100th unit. Although, even if I get it wrong I should still be able to get marks for the next bit?

    Using the adjusted labour time I got the marginal cost to be about $50.54 ish and put that into the demand equation to get something like a selling price of $400.

    Finally I after talking about the pricing strategies I recommended that the company use skimming as their patent prevented any competition for 2 years, and they should use a higher price to recoup the R&D costs and emphasise to customers how much more efficient their product is.

    I meant demand in profit table? Cheers

    June 13, 2011 at 3:55 pm #84710
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    @nomipk3 said:
    Hi,

    How did you work out demand? Based on probabilities?

    For part a) I didn’t work out demand at all. It said the company was going to choose to produce at one of those three demand levels. So I worked out the contribution at each production level, but where the weather meant that the demand was less than what had been produced, reduced the contribution by the unsold units x $0.50 to get the profit.

    If that makes sense. It is hard to explain, and it took me a while to get my head around it in the exam.

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