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F9 Exam tips – June 2012 sitting

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  • May 19, 2012 at 8:43 pm #52744
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    More tips will be added in a while. Keep checking for updates.

    Opentuition

    1 a) Investment appraisal – lease v buy decision
    b) Written on replacement

    2 a) economic order quantity calculation
    b) cash budget

    3 a) Capital asset pricing model (ungearing an equity beta)
    b) foreign exchange risk management – forward rates and money markets

    4 a) calculation of effect of raising finance (i) from equity and (ii) from debt on the earnings per share, interest cover, and gearing ratio of a company
    b) written on other ways of raising finance.



    LSBF

    Investment appraisal – tax and/or inflation with working capital, possibly roce and payback.
    Cost of capital – WACC calculation with a bit of capital structure and project specific discount rates.
    Valuation – DGM and PE ration method.
    Risk – FMH and MMH.
    Business finance – analysis of performance.
    WCM – overtrading or cash budget.

    source for tips from other publishers – PQ Magazine
    https://www.pqaccountant.com

    best of luck with exam!
    ansi

    May 23, 2012 at 6:25 pm #97805
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    updates:

    ATC

    • The Miller-Orr model and Baumol model.
    • Islamic finance – for more detail refer to the March 2011 SA article.
    • SME finance – see September 2011 article ‘Business finance and the SME sector’.
    • Interest rate risk.
    • Overtrading.

    BPP

    • Sources of finance – problems such as gearing.
    • Ratio analysis – be prepared to discuss the numbers.
    • Islamic finance – yet to be tested! Straightforward and for a few marks first time out.
    • WACC – cost of equity, preference shares and debt.
    • NPV with tax and inflation is the norm. May be asked to calculate weighted average cost of capital.
    • Inventory management and receivables management.
    • Exchange rate risk – money market hedges and forwards.

    First Intuition

    • Discussion of the economic environment and the impact on interest and exchange rates.
    • Working capital management.
    • Investment appraisal/cost of capital.
    • Business valuations.

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