*** P5 June 2015 Exam was.. Instant Poll and comments ***

If it helps I think the units for q1 was around 107k.. q1 was crazy, using a SWOT to create metrics, assessing qualitative and quantitative data and value chain for performance management?? Q3 and 4 were much kinder but we will see. Did anybody talk about over milking cows, invest in stars, R&D should be a cost centre and Baby be an investment centre?? Reading this back, it does sound weird..

i have messed up everything on this paper. Evrythng just went wrong though i know the full syllabus plus its my second attempt…will acca reduce pass mark? Am so depressed. Should o giv up here..ive passed all my previous paper fitst attempt only.so what is wrong now.

Any1 did that? Used 2015 figures ie operating profit and current roce, solved for x to get capital employed.Then added the new investment cost(i took the w.c as well not sure about that) to the c.a and used the 103m /new c.a to get the new roce for the proposal of setting a factory.
overall the paper was fair but required a lot of quick thinking in order to make logical connections among all the info given. Anyway im pretty sure its 2nd round for me lol since i did only 70% of the paper.
i wanted to write ‘ see you next sitting :)’ on my paper lol

As far as i understood, it asked how the current metrics on the dashboard will be affected by the 1st or 2nd proposal, i forgot which 1 it was.

I didnt like the style of the paper how do you deal with four appendix in one qs when its already so long. It too jumbled up i would much prefer if section was divided in two like p7 it can be very off putting. What choice do you really have do you decide to do section B first. To me i feel you need at least mins to ready qs 1. I wouldnt say it was hard i feel the style of the qs was confusing thus time wasted decipher. I guess Acca will be getting another £100

I am giving up changing to tax can’t pass this

Did anyone use maximax, minimax etc when calculating the profits for the three different units? Im sure i done a couple of similar questions from the exam kit which required the same. As from what i can remember it was talking about risk in the profit calculation bit?

I have been sitting Mock exams every weekend and my tutor marking them but came the exam time its like i haven’t done anything. i stopped in the middle of answering a question to ask myself if am answering the requirement, worse enough the lady sitting next to me was writing so quickly i could here her pen scribbling on the paper and calling for two extra answer sheets. she finished 15 minutes early, i was like are we doing the same exam. I felt so intimidated.

Does anybody know if the results are going to be out in time to register for the September session. Am not putting my books away yet so help me God.

That ‘s great it is better than waiting till December, am gonna rest for a week and start again. If I pass thank God if not will go back with vengeance what can we do, we are at the mercy of ACCA.

I was surprised when I read through all the comments, I think last sitting got more positive feedback mostly saying paper was easy blabla, and then when results came out, only 30% passed. Whereas for this sitting, most feedback complained how vague the requirements are. It is so interesting, I am wondering what will be the pass rate for this sitting? Will still be the lowest among the 14 papers, that is no doubt for sure.

hi.i got this ans as well.but i think we should have deducted the r & d cost as well because it is nt controllable

Well I believe Q1 was half straight forward and half compllex…. A lot of appendixes given to analyse…. Using SWOT analysis to suggest metrics well nt tht tough…. Q4 was pretty much straight forward with Assessing EVA giving its advantages and disadvantages…. However i dnt knw whether some one noticed tht the company was a family owned company…with only family shareholders….Was EVA suitable to assess performance… I did mentioned this point…other than tht reward system was really straight forward….Q3 was relatively easy as well also nt too complex using KPI to calculate customer perspective…. and commenting on the suggested KPI’s…. This is what i understand from it….Did the whole paper in time… tht can be a plus point fr me I hope… lets hope for the best….