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@kainosvik said:
Q4 was about life cycle? Really? I don’t think so.
4a was financial performance. Required ratio analyses and explanation of the ratios
4b was about a learning organization (there is a technical article on it)
4c was about knowledge management.
4b and 4c were on People and OrganizationsI think it was, see 06/2009 Q2. Of course supported with financial ratios, but that was not all in my opinion.
Learning organization –> I guess the company failed to learn in all aspects about the current trends … until maturity phase.
Knowledge management –> company should have known what ist currently expected from music suppliers
But whith b and c I am not sure, I derived it from part a
The exam was basically designed to fail students how could the exam become so different over9t has the p3 examiner been changed?
I found myself bringing my own personal knowledge about the Mobile network operator market rather than wholly from the scenario for the 5 forces. Which is clearly unfair, but I felt I had to because I had used a lot of the information provided in the PESTEL as people have already stated.
Avishhi5 – I reckon Porter’s Diamond would be useful yes, I was going to use it myself but opted for 5 Forces in the end and didn’t see the point in doing another given the time pressure!
I think, answering this whole exam paper in bullet point would have rewarded us more points than trying to solve each question at 100% 🙂
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I attempted first part of q1, q2 and q3. Did not have enough time to finish q1. Exam too time pressured and too much to read.
I hope this doesn’t come across the wrong way, but I’m relieved many of you said this paper was tough, otherwise I naturally assume it’s just me being stupid and incompetent! I hope you all pass though.
Not a bad paper, could have being a lot worse.. A lot of writing. Filled two exam books :O
I wasn’t 100% sure avishhi5, but I said cost focus was low cost, but concentrating on a niche market, so could charge higher price. Or top left on strategy clock.
What did people put for the question on whether or not to outsource production with the company outside the region or continue producing inhouse(q2 IIRC)… I added up the direct and variable overheads and only one of them was cheaper to buy… and over all the products it wasnt cheaper to buy the products either.. based on the monthly output..? and it also goes against their strategy… and would be bad for the image as it goes against their stratgy and the country appears to value national identity as they are trying to become independant.. was it that simple?
@neilsolaris said:
I hope this doesn’t come across the wrong way, but I’m relieved many of you said this paper was tough, otherwise I naturally assume it’s just me being stupid and incompetent! I hope you all pass though.I am pretty sure that no one who proceeded till P3 is stupid and for P3 there are many choices to attempt the questions. I also think you can get full marks with chosing Porters diamond for Q1 to get full marks!
Keep fingers crossed that we all passed 🙂
for me it was that easy too…
I really hope it helps 🙂
I read in so many exam answers of ACCA: many approaches/answers are valid. So I count on this!!
The questions themselves didn’t seem hard: Question 1 – 3. I didn’t really revise the topics in question 4 so I can’t say about that one.
As usual the exam is too time pressured. I don’t understand why the scenario in question long needs to be so long. Whoever designed these questions is evil. This is the one paper I am struggling with and makes me feel to drop out of ACCA after all these years of trying to get to the end.
At least I know I’m not alone regarding the time issues. I just can’t understand their rationale for making this paper so time pressured. It just makes no sense. If they want to make the paper harder do it with content, that’s how you test if someone knows something. Reduce the length of the scenario and ask more content.
“no frills” better suit to a cost leadership strategy, but not to Focus strategy. Focus strategy is targeted to particular customer or particular niche market.
Time pressure. I realize I was running out if time, So I leave part two of question one and do question 2 and 3. Had to rush them and didnt get back to question . I lost 20 marks there. To much to read and analyze in 3 hours.
Damn it, sounds like I should have done question 2 rather than 4.
Question 1 could have been 3 hours on its own!
Ohh. So tough paper in the history of p3. unexpected topics. Less important such as learning organizations. Q1 part b and question 4 part b and c are doubtful. Other parts are well. Time pressure did not allow me to read question 3 to select the best question betweem question 3 and 4. just hoping for passing exam.
Reading the q1 I’ve suddenly realized it’s very interesting in all that details about using telephone and computer networks to organize riots etc, have you noticed that? Think about recent revolutions in Arabic counties and Ukraine. Examiners are also people anyway ))
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The exam was demanding but I liked it, i filled about 80 pages so hoping for 90
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