*** F5 September 2015 Exam was.. Instant Poll and comments ***

@gonko said:
I can’t help but feel this paper ignored all of the key concepts around performance management. No LeaLearning curve, no linear programming, no throughput, no transfer pricing or price and demand etc. Alot of supplementary stuff hit for big marks which made no sense. How a paper like this was published for an exam is surprising. I studied key areas, and these appeared not to have landed. Questions were poorly written also. Perhaps the examiner should try communicate scenarios better. There was also a question on environmental stuff and the requirement was “which is MOST LIKELY” to be affected when referring to stakeholders. Very very poor from ACCA.

I agree… Let’s see what happens when the dust settles!

I would have said all stakeholders would have been affected. However I had to pick government as I could only pick one. But how the government could be interested, yet the shareholders apparently not so…..is beyond me.

@jimbob1212 said:
Oh yeah, what did you guys write for the stakeholder question?
I too didn’t really understand the question, so I guessed government

Thanks for remembering this. Yes, for me it was a toss-up between customers who might buy more environmentally-friendly products or the government that dictates environmental law. Although customers would consider environmental impact when purchasing a product, there is no guarantee of this. Government would primarily consider environment legislation. So I went for government. (Although I still think customers is a good answer.) Open to other opinions…

Quite agree with everyone about the MCQ’s, they seemed really tough this time and took forever, written questions seemed fairer than June 2015 however the minimax question was just horrendous!!

@barryhastings said:
Quite agree with everyone about the MCQ’s, they seemed really tough this time and took forever, written questions seemed fairer than June 2015 however the minimax question was just horrendous!!

I’m glad I’m not the only one who didn’t get the minimax regret question. I’ve got a degree in maths, for what it’s worth!

so was this a 94 marks exams am i right?

@hoangduchung1903 said:
Yes, I got 600 with a regret of $180

Can you remember what’s your contribution?

For the MCQ relevant cost one, I picked 110. Since in US, we differentiate between wage and salary. Wage is used for hourly work (which could be varied month by month), salary is the fixed amount for the month.

I don’t know if those British guys has the same definition 🙁 🙁

@yuemin said:
Can you remember what’s your contribution?

Contribution per unit sold : $5.20 – $1.80 = $3.40

First I set up a payoff table for each possible daily demand and each possible daily supply

For example :

If supply is 500 and demand is 500 : contribution = (5.20 – 1.80) x 500 = $1,700
This amount is the same for demands of 550, 600, 650

If supply is 550 and demand is 500 : contribution = 5.20 x 500 – 550 x 1.80 = $1,610

And so on for other combinations of supply and demand…..After that I set up a regret table based on the payoff table

Unbelievably hard Acca understand the situation differently, that is very bad reputation for AccA, section B in second I thought I’m not in F5

can anyone tell exactly which topics were tested in the paper? plz

@goddey90 said:
what answer did you get for relevant costing? i had 40. i dont know if its correct

Yes I did to, as lost contribution. hope it’s right as need every mark possible.