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*** June 2025 ACCA FM exam – Instant Poll and comments ***

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  • This topic has 19 replies, 9 voices, and was last updated 2 weeks ago by a4395107.
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  • June 6, 2025 at 7:46 am #717683
    opentuition_team
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    How was your June 2025 ACCA FM exam?

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    (Comments will be opened after 5PM UK)

    June 6, 2025 at 6:19 pm #717744
    tasnim29
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    How was the exam for everyone?

    June 6, 2025 at 8:33 pm #717753
    specimenk
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    Afternoon paper was way too difficult

    Sec was simple NPV, Sensitivity and other one was Ratios for working capital and discussion on overtrading plus theory.

    Section B was the most annoying – Bond valuation, Fx rates and I don’t recall the other one

    Section A was tough as well, weird graphs of NPV and 4-6 marks questions on Islamic finance, a bit to govt policy and cost of equity calc

    Does anyone remember the other section B question that I don’t recall?

    June 6, 2025 at 8:47 pm #717754
    rhomer01
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    Did the morning exam.

    Section C was a cashflow question – hadnt revised this at all really
    Section C was also a NPV calc – Strange wording and I ended up with a negative NPV

    Section B Forex – interest rate parity
    Section B Working capital formulas (I think)

    Section A seemed ok apart from Marginal average cost of capital I had never heard of this before

    June 6, 2025 at 8:47 pm #717755
    rhomer01
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    Did the morning exam.

    Section C was a cashflow question – hadnt revised this at all really
    Section C was also a NPV calc – Strange wording and I ended up with a negative NPV

    Section B Forex – interest rate parity
    Section B Working capital formulas (I think)

    Section A seemed ok apart from Marginal average cost of capital I had never heard of this before

    June 6, 2025 at 9:12 pm #717756
    Dmitryks
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    Could anyone share how a good answer for part c question regarding working capital should look like? And which ratios count?

    June 6, 2025 at 9:12 pm #717757
    Dmitryks
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    Could anyone share how a good answer for part c question regarding working capital should look like? And which ratios count?

    June 6, 2025 at 9:13 pm #717758
    Dmitryks
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    Also in part c question about sensitivity – was IRR too high? 45% as I remember

    June 6, 2025 at 9:23 pm #717759
    Akihiro
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    I calculated IRR it was around 18%-19%

    June 6, 2025 at 9:25 pm #717760
    Akihiro
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    Can anyone tell me whether Gro co in section C was overtrading or not?

    June 6, 2025 at 9:57 pm #717761
    specimenk
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    Yes it was since revenue was shooting up but profits weren’t and they had increased overdrafts.

    June 6, 2025 at 9:57 pm #717762
    specimenk
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    Yes it was since revenue was shooting up but profits weren’t and they had increased overdrafts.

    June 6, 2025 at 11:05 pm #717763
    Akihiro
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    But I remember the PAT was more in 20X7 then 20X6

    June 7, 2025 at 12:08 am #717764
    laist
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    Overtrading signs

    Rapid increase in revenue
    Rapid increase in receivables, inventory and payables days (As I calculated the above I quickly did the cash operating cycle as well)

    Sudden large reliance on ST finance – they used $11m of overdraft and none in the prior year
    Liquidity ratios would have also indicated a fall in liquidity which is another sign of overtrading.

    All of the above boxes were ticked for 20X7!

    June 7, 2025 at 9:22 am #717773
    tasnim29
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    I got the same paper, the other section B was cost of capital I think.
    Some of the multiple choices from section A was abit tricky

    June 7, 2025 at 12:30 pm #717777
    Ellis-Sad
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    I think you had pretty much the same questions as i did.

    I too found it hard and was pretty much guessing for around half of it. This comes off the back of me going through the BPP revision kit, and TWICE! While i would do some of the questions in that kit around 5 times because of their difficulty and the need to remember.

    In reply to the other section B question, i think we had irredeemable preference shares? Something About the “Brothers” looking to invest? There was something about needing to find the Floor Value of the shares, along with the MV too.

    I think we had across section B; Foreign X-Rates/Interest Rate Parity Theory, then there was Bonds, and i think the other was Irredeemable Pref Shares…

    It was a tough exam. By the time i got section C, i was totally deflated (pardon the pun). But i think i answered my section C better.

    I have to say that i am disappointed with how much i put to being ready for this, and most of the questions, rather than be a healthy challenge, were more designed to throw you off at just about every turn. So i’m questioning now why bothered with most of the revision kit.

    June 7, 2025 at 12:51 pm #717778
    Ellis-Sad
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    It was a tough exam. I have to say that i am disappointed with how much i had put in to being ready for this, and most of the questions, rather than be a healthy challenge, were more designed to throw you off at just about every turn. So i’m questioning now why i bothered with most of the revision kit.
    Hours and hours poured in. Committing to memory, textbook fashion the long pure knowledge questions across Working Capital Management and Investment Appraisal Methods, that involves discussion and explanation. And none of them came up!!

    I suppose where it did help was that i could pull a few points out from that knowledge committed to memory to make a few points in what was being asked; such as:

    1. Discuss the advantages of a conservative working capital approach as opposed to an aggressive approach… (on one question, and..)
    2. Discuss how the business would take account of future inflation in implementing them to DCF method based investment appraisal techniques (something like this)

    Perhaps you can see my disappointment and why i would be. Hopefully, with some sensible guessing for half of the exam, along with a better answered section C, i may just get over the line.

    June 9, 2025 at 9:51 am #717816
    chc11
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    Anyone else got negative NPV for section C (june 2025)?

    June 9, 2025 at 10:10 am #717817
    chc11
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    did you get negative NPV?

    June 10, 2025 at 8:52 am #717855
    a4395107
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    I got a negative NPV in section C

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