*** September 2022 ACCA SBL exam – Instant Poll and comments ***

I agree a lot of the questions were related to impact on strategic objectives so I felt like a lot of my answers were very repetitive

Any else feel like they were repeating similar points in each task?

yes it was 16,15,28,25,16

I dont remember what as the second questio but I think the SWOT analysis was mainly for the division perfomance analysis

shirinshana wrote:Quality homes
Q1 – resources and competences that would be a competitive advantage- didn’t use any model thought about PESTEL half way through and there was no time to change.

I agree with you in most of the things, IR you could apply it in the question where it was mentioned that stakeholders want more info besides teh financial one

Thank you very much. I spent 3 minutes deciding this. It was more of factors to consider than how we should report to them.

Scott5190 wrote:Same, I felt my question related to more how we should approach each stakeholder I.e power vs interest and also what information needed to be included and why we needed to include it I.e transparency/proactive for gov legislations/regulations not the ways we should report to them

tara19 wrote:As far as I remember the stakeholder question was phrased like ‘ what factors should QH consider when deciding how and what is reported to the stakeholders’
When I first read this question I wrote down integrated reporting and the 6 capitals so when I came to write I would remember.<br>But when I came back to write I read the question again and took the stakeholder matrix route – keep informed, keep satisfied etc. because it mentioned what factors I thought it was asking more how do we know what to report to the stakeholders ie how involved are they rather than what reports do they get – but I could be wrong??<br>I guess now I am thinking about it maybe it could have been leaning more towards they should adopt IR and the advantages. Can someone enlighten me?

I used exactly the initially approach that you suggested in my understanding it was IR as with this you can tackle covering info for abroad number of stakeholders and related it with the financial perfomance of the organisation

I don’t think it was IR. I stand to be corrected. You would have to classify the stakeholders into Power and Interest using the stakeholders theory, thereafter you will classify each of the stakeholders and decide how to report to them.

dipatil wrote:

tara19 wrote:As far as I remember the stakeholder question was phrased like ‘ what factors should QH consider when deciding how and what is reported to the stakeholders’
When I first read this question I wrote down integrated reporting and the 6 capitals so when I came to write I would remember.<br>But when I came back to write I read the question again and took the stakeholder matrix route – keep informed, keep satisfied etc. because it mentioned what factors I thought it was asking more how do we know what to report to the stakeholders ie how involved are they rather than what reports do they get – but I could be wrong??<br>I guess now I am thinking about it maybe it could have been leaning more towards they should adopt IR and the advantages. Can someone enlighten me?

I thought Tows Model should be more appropriate since the exhibit did give us the strength, weakness, opportunities and threat. Thought using Tows to evaluate the competencies of QH is the best approach??

How did people respond to the question about comparing the performance of the two divisions? Felt like there wasn’t a lot of info to go from

agboolakenny84 wrote:I don’t think it was IR. I stand to be corrected. You would have to classify the stakeholders into Power and Interest using the stakeholders theory, thereafter you will classify each of the stakeholders and decide how to report to them.

Definitely no this what you have applied doesnt make sense in this question that was included in the exam. It was definitely IR as there was not info about the power & interest of any of the stakeholders, plus with the IR you can tackle the capitals, if I remember good it was mentioned something about how to improve reporting or to give more info to the stakeholders

saif2589 wrote:For stakeholder question I used power/interest and how to approach them apart from focusing a lot on annual reporting I used the form of email, letter, website. Am I correct ?

did you have QH company in your exam? beause if you did definitely not there were reports, brief note, slides, memorandum and one briefing report if I remember good

veexk wrote:How did people respond to the question about comparing the performance of the two divisions? Felt like there wasn’t a lot of info to go from

I agree with you I used the info from the SWOT analysis and add some further info

I disagree. How then would you classify the stakeholders using IR ?. Of course you can use power and interest to classify the stakeholders. The government has high power and high interest as they can implement regulations and legislations and they want to ensure that housing was good in Moria.

Employees have high interest as they would depend on QH for salary payments and could even have high power as skilled staff has been identified as a weakness.

You could do the same for all the remaining external stakeholders.

dipatil wrote:

agboolakenny84 wrote:I don’t think it was IR. I stand to be corrected. You would have to classify the stakeholders into Power and Interest using the stakeholders theory, thereafter you will classify each of the stakeholders and decide how to report to them.

It is possible we are talking about 2 different questions. The Q I had was what factors should QH consider when deciding how and what is reported to the stakeholders.

The annual report had both financial and non-financial info and was more of an IR report rather than purely financial anyway so would have been difficult to cover more regarding IR.

The question asked how do we know what to report to them & what factors to consider of the stakeholders when deciding how and what to report – if the question asked to suggest what reporting for them IR would have probably been appropriate but the question was about how do we decide ie their power & interest