PM*** March 2022 ACCA PM exam – Instant Poll and comments ***

I also got the same but didn't get what it exactly want how you dealt with that

after 6 weeks of exam

Hi, those who had mix and yield and noviland. How did you tackle in mix and yield question the waste? Did you calculate also mix and yield for specific material or only total? I used standard formula SQSP (actual number of batches x material per batch x standard price of material). Then calculated AQSmixSP. Basically I only recalculated actual qty based on standart mix and multiplied by standard price. And the last one AQSP. Yield variance was fav. Aroung 1mil and mix adv around 100k. If a did this question correctly I may pass the exam, but I am not sure because I did not know how to tackle waste and I also did not calculate variance per material only total. How did you approach this question? I did only selfstudy with LSBF and I basicilly found everything in this book to answer 95% of question. Section A, B very easy, but suprisingly comparing to other exams, very time consuming..

I skipped this part B to answer part C cos I was time pressured! How did you attempt part C? I guess it was not tied to part B. The change of mix must have made the more expensive component to be greater in the new mix hence the adverse mix variance.

@nikolavintrova with the rolling budget I think I added 2% to the cost of the actual and used that as the basis for the Q2 budget as the question stated that 2% was accurate. I personally thought the labour variance was a red herring and I didn't adjust for that - probably wrong. I cant remember what I put for the MOS - I think I put the selling price at 22.50 or something, I took the $3000 revenue budgeted and divided it by the total number of units that was stated on the graph - I couldn't see anywhere else what the bud no., of units was..... - again probably wrong. I hadn't done a lot of practice on this question area, as I was more focused on linear prog, relevant costs and PED etc etc which none came up....

When was your exam ....is it morning or afternoon session.

@pavolbondra Yea I calculated mix and yield for the specific materials and then added them up to get the total favourable/adverse variance. Your numbers sound like mine, i remember getting 1 milliom something for one and around 100k for the other. Hope its right but cant be sure. If not ive definitely failed lmao.

@brushydragon do you remember what level of output you did for the payoff table question?

@tomstrong96 The pay off table was probably the bit I struggled with the most (I was ready for a nasty linear programming question) .... I put the table together, set it up etc worked out the contribution per unit. I think I applied 80% to the supply units as only 80% produced could be sold and that was about it, then moved onto the next bit about maxi min.... had to manage the time, I could of spent an hour just doing the payoff table, sadly. So just cut my losses and moved on! 12 marks on the table I think, maybe I'll get 1 or 2 marks for that question!! How did you get on with the balance s/c?

@keisuke Batch is when a group of units are produced together. i.e there are 10 units per batch. So if you had 100 units and the batch size is 10, there would be 10 batches. Component is just the element of the final "product" it was referring to.... component 1, 2 and 3 are just parts of the final product....being a tech company, working out the costs for each component that make the final product.... I think.

I think we got the same set of questions. I just rambled for the balanced scorecard question. Didn't consider the adverse variance either for the rolling budget. My Mos was 16.67%. That one was truly God directing me. That question took me a while to figure out.

@brushydragon yeah I think I basically did that I put the full production lines at the top which were 2000,3000,4000 and then the 1600 etc on the side and calculated the contributions taking into account that 20% wouldn’t be sold. Then I did a separate table for values taking into account the probabilities as it asked for the production based on expected values. I ended up choosing 1600 I think but I’m not sure how that added to 12 marks I’m assuming I missed a lot of steps. The balanced score card was okay. Luckily I revised the perspectives of innovation, financial, internal and customer. I don’t think I explained them very well so the 4 mark one might have been poor but I think I put in a few decent examples on the 16 marker. I’m expecting a fail to be honest but we’ll see haha!

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hey can we discuss pets4all question in detail?

Hey do you remember what was your answer I'm section c variance long . With learning curve and without???

Hey .. can we discuss variance long question. Learning curve one??

It was okay. Way better than December's exam. Had a full question on balanced scorecard for one part of section C and also expected values with minimax, minimax regret and maximax question. Section A and B were okay just that I had a little problem with a PV curve that was give in section B. I totally forgot to revise on that one

@tomstrong98 Hey I got the same questions as yours. Yeah that payout table was very confusing. It almost took away my morale because I had spent so much time on sections A and B

i have pm exam on next week, anyone guide me to pass in the exam..?

I couldn’t believe how heavily featured learning curves were, one of the areas that I was least confident with so it was really deflating. Having said that, by the time I got to the section c question, I only had 5 minutes left so just rushed the variances and wrote a sentence on part (c). I just hope the Pets4All question covered any shortcomings, I wrote a lot on this but didn’t cover everything in detail so hopefully it’s not just marked as waffle. Fingers crossed

Robby.Jnr wrote:@tomstrong98 Hey I got the same questions as yours. Yeah that payout table was very confusing. It almost took away my morale because I had spent so much time on sections A and B

Hey mate, yeah I was doing that a lot too I kind of rushed section B so I’ll be very surprised if I did well on that section haha! I think there was some sort of decision tree to do in section A but I had no idea. Did you see that one?

Hey, did anyone of you remembered in Section B lifecycle costing requirements and its answers?

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Hyy @sakshi23456 in which phase breakeven was recovered? Options were Phase 2 Phase 3 Phase 4

@sakshi23456 Hi, if you know this requirement's answer, can you message me in this no : +91 7560845694

anyone wants to discuss noviland ques? what was the answer for difficulties with stated objectives in noviland ques

@sakshi23456 - I wasn't 100% sure on this one, think I mentioned something about the goals not being time specific or measurable. Don't know if this is correct though as the question kind of stated that they hadn't got around to doing this yet. It was a really weird question tbh.