Resubmission Queries

no I have compare year by year of Target (3 years of Target)
but I also included Year by year analysis of competitor ( 3 year of Competitor)

Thank you again trephena, i think you were right. I called again the university for the second time for clear confirmation and I was told clearly taht they do not need my SLS. I told them the system won’t allow me to send without it and they advised me to write just a note to say I have passed the self relctiin and upload it in place of the SLS

Hey
I submitted my RAP and SLS in Period 21 (2010-2011). i was able to pass the SLS but i failed in Research Report. The main reason for failure was because of

1. Information gathering and referencing
2. Evaluation of information, analysis and conclusion.

In both these areas i received a fail grade. My topic was financial analysis.

Now after a long period i would like to re submit a research report but change the organisation because previously i selected the wrong companies and i couldnt find a suitable competitor. There was also not much press coverage and i didnt have access to information so i was unable to get much information. The marker commented that most of the information was from annual report and this was one of the reasons for my failure.
Can someone please help me answering the following questions

1. Can i change the organisations and if i do should i also make a new SLS ?
2. Should i get in touch with mentor again because i dont want to contact her again as she didnot really help me much in the first time ?

@usman009 – as you are talking about nearly 5 years ago you will find the requirements for the RAP have changed considerably since then. You really need to famaliarise yourself with the latest Information Pack before you begin. I suggest you also look at our homepage http://www.opentuition/boy where we have articles and FAQs that in particular deal with evaluation and analysis.

The areas you failed are the most common but the standard is even higher now to meet the assessment criteria than it was back in P21 so you need to use our search facility for questions you may have and read the answers. Please post any queries to the relevant forum topic (it is not necessary to open a new topic each time).

You will need a mentor to verify the work is your own

@sfarhan06

You will not have to load your SLS / Presentation at all. However one of the main purposes of the mentor is to certify that the work you are submitting is your own and this applies to all work submitted for the BSc.

For P30 ONLY you may use a mentor who fits the qualification requirements under the ‘Old Rules’ i.e. they do not have to have done the online mentoring course but they either have to be a fully paid up ACCA member, college tutor or workplace supervisor (in the last two cases you need to email the OBU office and forward the mentor’s CV to get OBU agreement that the mentor is suitable unless they are already on the listed mentor list).

From P31 ALL mentors must be on the listed mentor list

(As you have failed on Evaluation & Analysis I suggest that you read my article on our homepage http://www.opentuition.com/obu as this may be useful for your resubmission and also my article on the Resubmission statement)

@sfarhan06 – yes the position re mentor details will be the same as for P29.

You will have to use the 2014 data as it was available more than 90 days before the submission period opened (in fact you should have used it for P29 surely or do you mean it was published on April 2015 not April 2014?)

@sfarhan06 – Yep thought that’s what you probably meant!

This is a bit awkward as the comparator FS aren’t available and as the main company 2013 accounts have now been superseded but are now a bit dated. This is the approach I would do bearing in mind you are not compelled to use 2014

1. Use the 2013 for both companies and base your comparisons on those
2. Make a statement in the Limitations section and state the actual date 2014 FS were published for main company
3. Introduce a section at the end called ‘Update’ and again mention that the accounts were only made available in April 2015 and 2014 was not available for the comparator.
4. In this updated section I would cover Revenue, GP, NP and EPS for the main company and make relevant comments and try to do a few good explanations
5. You could (if appropriate/feasible) use the 2014 FS for the SWOT and PESTLE
6. Base your Conclusion on both the main analysis and the update

Note: if you are struggling with the word count then trim Parts 1 & 2 of superfluous material – the marker on a resubmission will be focusing on Part 3 if you failed E & A and will be wanting to see that you are looking at what has driven performance rather than just mentioning that one company has out performed the other (let the graphs show that)

@sfarhan06 – The very last part you should trim is the Findings section as that is the ‘clever part’ that shows you can think for yourself and is what is key to getting a pass. Parts 1 & 2 are the areas you need to edit first (is anyone really bothered why you chose company XYZ? – I doubt it!). There is one thing you need to do if you have failed section 3 Evaluation, Analysis and Conclusions and that is Explanations, explanations and explanations! Ratio Analysis is merely a tool to assist with evaluation and too many figures without demonstrating what really has driven those figures will lead to another fail.

As I advise time and time again SHOW the ratio results in a graph and then you do NOT need to state lots of figures – readers/markers are fully capable of seeing the position for themselves and what they want is for you to tell them the factors (from the SWOT & PEST for example or the management strategies) that have caused movements in the trends.

I suggest that you read my article on Evaluation on our homepage http://www.opentuition.com/obu where I try to explain how to adopt the correct approach

@zeest – certainly you need to give the marker some in depth explanations – that is much better than lots of ratios. If the organisation is a service entity then the quick ratio is next to useless and unless the asset ratio / turnover shows anything significant those two would be the first I would chop out. The investor ratios are usually very important for the market so I would include gearing and probably keep ROE. You could take out some and (those that you are not going to explain as there is no real information just as graphs in the appendices.

However you do need to explain profitability ratios and dividend policies and EPS in as much detail as possible. From comments in the student feedback what the markers absolutely hate are (a) comments that just say that one company has outperformed the other (without explaining why this should be so) (b) statements of the obvious (something the markers can see for themselves from the graphs) and (c) ‘explanations’ that read like notes to the accounts -so avoid making these types of mistakes and research well so that you can explain things properly.

@trephena
please ignore the previous message it was re-posted by mistake….
and thank you for the above reply …..
although i do want to mention here that my chosen company is a manufacturing company.
what would you suggest relating this to the previous query i.e. which profitability ratios will be relevant?

Hi @trephena

I am resubmitting in May and in my results it says:

Skills & learning statement

Graduate skills
8. self reflection – pass
9. communication skills(inc. presentation) – pass
skills & learning statement – pass

So, my question now is am I required to submit SLS/presentation this time?

I understand that re- submission statement is a must this time.

Thank you

Thnx for your quick reply @trephena. I am submitting on a different company this time, so SLS/ presentation is required?