*** P5 June 2012 Exam was … Comments and Instant Poll ***

Hey guys, could somebody please share the topics? what came in exam? your feedback is highly appreciated.

Come on guys, share your experience, what topics came in the exam?

@lobong… What else?

hope do you well!!!! what is MIRR???

Qn 4 about benchmarking on university

Qn5 difficulties on performance management and performance measurement.

the topics were easy for me..
npv, mirr, eva, benchmarking, performance prism, 6 sigma..
but the requirements very confusing man!!!
‘what gets measured gets done’ ive read somewhere but totally forgotten!!!! 10 marks i lose freely! damn…
but as a whole it was disaster for me as well!
hoping ive interpreted the requirements correctly….

@jamestang said:
Eva,mirr, report presentation, benchmarking,perforamce prism, six sigma – dmaic

it is disaster for me. What the heck means by assess progress todate of benchmarking? I don undertand……..

It means there are incomplete information. And the question wants us to find out what other information is relevant but not in the question.

Q.1 – Performance reporting & EVA, MIRR(i assume its just IRR, and did that) 40 marks
Q2. – Performance prism 25 marks
Q3 – Six Sigma 20 marks
Q4 -Benchmarking 20 marks

Give or take a few marks, the 3 & 4 may have been 17 marks actually – my head is mushy now.
Q5 – single ques, that scared everyone off

For me it was a disaster – but the 4 others I spoke to said the same.

For some reason – nothing flowed for me. It was a strain all the way through to come up with ideas. Which was very off-putting.

Also, due to the examiners recent patronising article relating to students not reading what the question – I kept constantly second guessing myself.

Am I answering the question, or just what I think the question is ??

Cause I failed in Dec with 38% even though I felt I had a good pass, I was also low on confidence, hense the above.

Im sure I failed !!

Q1 a) criticise current performance REPORT prepared and suggest improvement in the content and presentation (12m)
b) evaluates : – proposed perf measures (npv eva mirr)
– other profit based measures (14 m)
c) assess the quote ‘what gets measure get done’ (10)

Q2 a) analyse 3 airlines co performance(12)
b) performance prism (14)

Q3 a) 6 sigma (8)
b) DMAIC (9)

Q4) Benchmark

Q5 Perf measure and perf management in turbulent environment

I also found the topics and scenarios easy, but the requirements just daunting.

Did anyone else find that there were very few questions, but high marks per question ?? ie. mostly double digit requirements, and the “quicker” requirements were closer to 10 marks that 5.

8 + 5 + 3 making it easier to pick up the easy marks ??

So for me, an 8 marker is 8 points, a 12 marker is 12 points. On the 8 marker I struggled to get 4 points, and on the 12 marker I struggled to get 7 points.

Am I making any sense ?

Understandable scenarios, difficult requirements >.<

@nish69 said:
i do have the same problem, smidsy.
i am so looking forward to give feedback relating to this exam at accaglobal…
alex watt is crazy!

Although, as proven by the Dec exam, it wont make a difference, seeing as this exam was much harder in my opinion.

Maybe P4/P6P7 is more achieveable – seems to be what others are doing.