*** June 2022 ACCA SBL exam – Instant Poll and comments ***

@grahamegan
At least you did attempt the question, I skipped it and when returned to it was too late 🙁

Offer from Delta
Risks something something …

@islamovakamila. Sorry to hear that. I toyed with idea on a couple of questions but I knew I’d get bogged down and forget about it.

@avnish92 I think you were to consider that it was 1 June 20×8. Well that’s what was on my version.

@chipomakore

Rant away-I’m sure people are sick of seeing my name so many times in this thread! 🙂

Haha don’t worry, the feeling I’m getting from a lot of people is the same. I reckon the pass rate for this one will be well below the normal 50%

I felt the machine learning was nearly geared towards customer segmentation and the data that the machine could gather to identify different areas. I think they mentioned that YBC didn’t know who had paid for licenses etc and I said that machine learning could be implemented to understand this area better, again like so many other questions, I struggled to come up with enough points to match the marks.

The risk question was a total mess for me.
KPIs I also struggled with

The Delta proposal was weird because (if memory served me correctly) they asked for the opportunities to YBC if they went ahead of it but I think I answered my own question and gave the risks of using the streaming platform that Delta offers.

At this stage I’m getting around 25% out of 100% 🙂

We are all in the same boat, I hope they will review and lower the pass mark…2nd time sitting for this exam Lol…..I just want it out of the way so I can do the few left and finish this.

Is this ACCA’s most difficult exam?

@chipomakore

I’m not sure. Going on their pass rates, it would appear historically AAA is the hardest as it has the lowest pass rates.

Personally I feel SBL is hard because it’s open to interpretation and could lead to many variations of answers being right.

I tried with POPIT but struggled so I completely changed and went for areas like financials (based on the fact it said it needed to be funded by equity), resources (human), readiness (time as the tenure was due to be up in 2 years) and management (such as are they capable) and just tried to write as in depth as possible

Was their mission to provide programmes that inform, educate and entertain or did I totally go off on something else? : Answer to this :That was one missions, there are other 3 missions also for YBC, that also should be scrutinized with KPIs.

I said the KPI’s didn’t relate to their mission as I said their mission was what I wrote above :
Answer to this YBC has a higher screen timing as compare to its competitor so definitely the programmes are entertaining but if they are informing or educating to the public this is not given in and captured in any KPI (need to show some skepticism).

Hope this helps.

I felt I didn’t use many models apart from the mendlow matrix.

ACCA recommend not using any models.

How long were yer answers?

there was a different icon in the left top corner that had to be changed- ic hanged it and could highlight and copy.

So confused with the paper too. The same here, the only model that I actually used was Mendelow Matrix.

Conflict between protesters as one stakeholder- claim that they shouldn’t pay for something they didn’t use- manage them by releasing official statement, government- they claim the license fees from public and usually don’t have that much interest but now government is in conflict with the public as strikes happened- should be managed by independent committee; Independent commitee- they are the link between YBC and government. Additionally employees may lose staff morale as work for company with worsening reputation.- official meeting led by senior managers should take place….. something like that

Leadership style change was tricky- i used my own words for that. I don’t think there was anything mentioned about current style- I believe it was about the CHANGE implementation- not leadership itself.

Governance – board of directors- structure could stay the same as the best practice to have balanced board, government and public the principal vs in commercial one the shareholders would have the final word, public interest vs shareholders wealth etc

KPI’s- i think some of them where in line with the mission- like volume of new programmes released etc. I also suggested two or three that they could use…also if comparison to commercial company is good if the only one they compare to- would be good to compare to public organisation but from neighbouring country?

Machine learning platform and how customer relationship could be improved- i answered that YBC would gain a lot of information about the customers which would allow them to exceed their expectations, find out more about their habits and preferences but also what kind of people use the account- gender, age etc. Also I said it was good solution to rebuild relationship with young generation as currently wasn’t very interested with what YBC offered.

About Risks i think i used strategic(different mission) operational(staff with long time in service- no training and fresh look) technologic(poor technology and implementing new one will be costly) and something else.

Delta-used mainly the exhibit- like they would loose broadcasting rights, bad reputation of delta etc, delta focused on number of views where YBC is about educating, anything that was in the scenario.

Internal controls would benefit stakeholders by increasing their confidence in how company is managed(risk etc)- Government and public would have access to information of how the company is managed which would help to avoid strikes- i think 2 points was enough as total task was 8mrks and there was another subtask which I cant remember 🙂 important if new platform starts running- confidence if their personal data being secured- something like that.

i got YBC which was a generic question, requirement were similar to this:

the difference between YBC and commercial subsidiary
– leadership styles
– claims and interests of different stakeholders
– machine learning
– Internal Report
– are the current KPIs are in line with the mission

the generic nature of the question was perfect for me because only prepared for just a 4 days for the exam, so i didn’t have book knowledge and Models, and i think i did well enough to get a pass.

the only concern i have is the Exhibits were practically useless i barely used them at all, so i might not score high marks because my points were not tied to the case.