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i found question 2 a little confusing, but other than that the paper was manageable
Q2’s based on the latest tech article on option pricing.
Did anyone think that the annuity factor formuia in Q1 was wrong?
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P4 included achievable questions. But I did not well 🙁
Q2 was a complete disaster! I am aiming at 5 marks for that. Other than that, it was okay. I felt like all the hard topics were unfortunately skipped, which I knew oh too well.
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Well, in my opinion, all the exam war a great disaster!!! There were really nothing from question banks and non of the the duscursive questions were covered in the textbooks. I am very-very-very angry….
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It was useless to study finally…
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It was real disaster, it seems that all non core topics were examined. I was hoping for Options pricing question but not in a form in which it came up also for hedging question but it did come up.
I feel I failed it with a safe margin…. Roll on December….
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the nastiest exam i ever had! Feeling awful.
For Q2 topic there is only article and question in exam KIT from Mock 3, which is 2009 December exam. Nothing more!!!!! Text book covers this in 2 different chapters separately…
There was nothing i really was ready for:(great disaster …….i don’t know what do they teach in class and what the hell they given in paper…….i hardly believe i can score more than 10 marks………
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Before the exam I was feeling quite confident that I was fully prepared for it. Unfortunately when I looked at the question paper I felt like I had been given the wrong paper or had studied for the wrong exam!
Apart from Q1 there was nothing that I was expecting. Feeling very disapointed.
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hats off to people who have voted for it as an easy paper…that too abt 8%.My God what a disaster… feeling so low as think all the efforts put in preparing for it has gone down the drain….oh dear 🙁 …….time for call option me thinks:)
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wow..well that was a bit of a disaster, i really feel like i have wasted the last few weeks studying as i dont remember coming across allot of the stuff on the exam, i reckon most of it was not the most technically difficult but its only easy when you know how!!
well time to move on, p5 awaits tomoro..chin up all!!!does anyone know what the hell is securitized certificates and how to estimate its return?it’s in Q3…
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I think i was lucky to be able to read the handouts so that i cud answer bits about Q2 and Q3…in any event though, the rest of the paper was a true disaster….just wishing i get 50
No forex No apv bunch of crapy questions …… soo angryy….. the worst paper in All acca.
I felt Q4 and Q5 were ok, but if I pick up 10 marks combined from Q1 and Q2 I am happy. Dissappointed none of the hedging techniques came up, spent so much time on it….. 🙁
I applied correct approach to Q2, however, I screwed up calculations and received unexpected output. Anyway, I was expecting question on hedging with currency futures/options.
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a perfect xmple of a super disaster..!! if i pass i will be the P4 international prize winner with the highest score worldwide of “50”
Wht is Monte Carlo..?? i heard of Monte Cresto…but wht ws tht..????
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P4 has never been easy, but I feel that this exam wasn’t as difficult as past papers that I practised. Question 1 was sraight NPV calculation and sensitivity. Second about Black and Scholes model a bit more difficult, but it was easily predictable, since there was an article in SA and post in Bob Ryan’s blog about it. Discursive question 4 seemed a bit strange, with so little information provided for analysis. I hope to pass, but not at all sure. If not, I already spotted a few books that I might read to do better next time:)
think monte carlo was f9 topic…. none of the major P4 topics were examined though… where was MIRR’s? APV’s? WACC’s? Forex and Interest rate hedging techniques?! I just hope I got 50%!:(
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This was the toughest paper i have seen in ACCA no doubt about it and ACCA is being so unprofessional i mean the examiners. In one sitting they give you such easy questions and then they give u nightmares and i mean this time it was 5 out of 5 none of the question was easy specially question 2 ,3 & 4 . I have never seen black scholes in company valuation before and the terms in question 3 i cant even pronounce it never heard of it before. conclusion too harsh
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I request all of you to please give feedback for this exam on ACCA so that they know this examiner has been too harsh this time. https://accastudent.newsweaver.co.uk/1eh1vqewday-18el93vg7f
I think the questions were fair. ACCA brands its qualification to be of the same standard as a masters programme. Hence it wouldn’t be right and fair if students can pass just by scanning through the text kit and attempting a few questions, hoping that questions of similar sort will reappear.
Bob Ryan, the examiner, sets tough papers to uphold standards. Read his blog post and comments to understand why he’s doing this.
https://professorbobryan.blogspot.com/2009/11/fools-p4radise.html
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