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Gearing, which method is correct?

Forums › Ask ACCA Tutor Forums › Ask the Tutor ACCA FM Exams › Gearing, which method is correct?

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  • June 7, 2016 at 10:17 pm #320635
    dumonde
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    Evening John,

    I’ve just been looking at examples of operating gearing and using the OT notes (which are awesome by the way) a slight discrepancy has arisen between OT and Kaplan.

    Operating gearing in OT examples is fixed cost / variable cost as an example yet Kaplan have used contribution / PBIT.

    Any chance you explain please?

    Thanks

    June 8, 2016 at 8:22 am #320712
    John Moffat
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    As I explain in the free lecture that goes with the notes, there is no standard measure of operating gearing, and so either measure is valid.

    In Section A it now appears you are best to use contribution/PBIT unless told differently, but in section B is doesn’t matter at all – it is the discussion about it that matters in Section B. (The examiner himself has used different measures in his own answers)

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