Resubmission Queries

hi,
if someone could give me advice. im supposed to resubmit..my prev analaysis was between 2011-2013. do i need to update it to include 2014 too now?

also in the feedback the moderator remarked: “you cannot compare EPS and DPS in absolute terms”..i have no idea what it means…any idea?? will it be OK if i skip on EPS altogether? or will that be an issue..dun wanna fail again!

thank you so much trephena! ur a life saver! cud u be more clearer perhaps? as to the difference between absolute terms and percentages…i would really appreciate it! and yes u were correct i did use monetary figures..

@hassanhere – absolute refers to using actual figures – you probably said for example that ABC plc’s EPS was 40 cents per share and XYZ’s was only 20 cents. Absolute figures do not help you make proper comparisons everything needs to be turned into percentages then you can make better judgements about their significance.

– on its own EPS is not particularly helpful but if combined with other ratios it might be. For example in the case I cite above – if the share bases are significantly different this will tend to skew the effect of EPS. So you need to look at P/E and dividend yields etc. to get the complete picture. No you certainly do not need to divide differences as per your first suggestion although a graph showing the year by year trend in EPS would be relevant in the investor ratio section

Hello, is it imperative to stick to the 500 word requirement for the re-submission statement? I currently have 569 words.
Thank you 🙂

@sonria – I suggest you (and anyone else who is re-submitting) read my article on the Resubmission Statement on our homepage http://www.opentuition.com/obu

as unfortunately the whole purpose of the resubmission statement is misunderstood. It is supposed to be for YOU to help you pass not for OBU to mark. The word count for it is merely a guide – if a student has only failed on something ”minor’ such as the Presentation they can possibly only write about 300 words. If you have written more than 500 no problem as long as you have addressed the issues raised and corrected them in your RAP – that is the main thing.

Thank you Trephena… Apologies for initially posting in the wrong spot. Your help and kindness is most appreciated 🙂

@Ha – this is probably more appropriate to the topic OBU Marker-speak, so I”‘ll move it there in a few days.

Your main problem clearly was referencing. There are several ways that this impacts on the RAP result. From the citation from the marker – because you only showed references that related to the annual reports it appeared that your analysis was too narrow and one-sided – in other words it did not demonstrate adequate research and evidence of sufficient information gathering as it seemed to just rely on company sources. Now the marker has hinted that this may not have been the case but may have been just a general lack of referencing in your financial analysis e.g. you did use other sources but simply did not reference them.

Now to address your actual questions

1. By ‘overall referencing’ – I think this is just the wording and possibly is better stated as ‘referencing overall’. In other words the marker felt references were possibly missing in many places in the whole of your report. In short your in-text references were inadequate

2. It seems to just mean that you referenced your business analysis much better e.g. more references and showed sources other than just annual reports. It does not express an opinion other than this.

3. The SWOT and models need to be integrated into the financial analysis – the business & financial analyses are inter-related – they do NOT stand alone (see my article on our homepage http://www.opentuition.com/obu
where I explain this

4. Some of this has really been covered in (3) above. If you keep the same topic and company the passes are carried forward. As to whether the models you have chosen are the best to integrate with your financial analysis depends on your company. Certainly SWOT is good but I cannot say either way for the Value Chain.

5. For technical reasons you may need to load your slides but it will not be remarked as you passed.

Good luck!

@trephena: Thanks 🙂

@tina22

I think you should focus on Q1 & 2 but also re-evaluate your replies for Q3 & 4 and see it you can strengthen them. The resubmission statement: 500 words are merely a guide and if you have failed on self-reflection it would be impossible to write that much without waffling! 🙂 There is no prescribed format but if you look at my article on our homeapage I suggest how I would do it.
https://opentuition.com/obu/resubmission-statement/

Sometimes the system makes you submit the Presentation even if you have already passed it – just have it at the ready to load to avoid any frustration when uploading. However only the Self-reflection will be re-marked.

I think this feedback that I saw for another student who failed the same areas may help you with this as it suggests you try to look at the whole process and think about how you developed (academically and as a person):

“The purpose of self-reflection is for you to evaluate your whole learning experience of how you went from a being an ACCA student only accustomed to studying for and sitting exams to learning how to research, analyse and think for yourself in producing an academic piece of work. This normally means that you have to acquire a new skill set and overcome many challenges and set-backs. You need to evaluate the process from the point of view of how you were affected and what you learned from both an academic point of view and also any life lessons. Your current responses are very descriptive – you list out what you or your mentor did/said but do not reflect on its further significance or give specific examples (e.g. what were the difficulties encountered and resolutions?) Q2 rather than list what you did, consider whether these techniques were appropriate or whether with the benefit of hindsight you would change anything or could have taken a different or better approach. You should assess your own strengths and weaknesses and try to apply these throughout and also to Q3 & 4 too as again these read more like a list rather than an self-assessment.”

I cannot comment on the Moderator’s comments but these would probably have been made in the light of the electronic checking process indicating that passages of your work greatly resembled previously submitted work.

I always suggest to students that the best statements are those that are written “from the heart” – not as a diarised list of what happened, not as a made-up statement of what you think an idealised student would have done but how ‘little you’ were presented with the daunting task of producing a 7,500 word academic report based just on the Information Pack and a mentor. Place that in the real world of work and social life demands and lack of little or no experience in researching and analysing or semi-formal academic style writing and there must have been many challenges. You have come a long way baby and so tell them how you have developed and changed and how useful the whole learning process has been and will be for you both in your career and life generally.

(Take a look at my reply dated 2 Nov 2014 to alfred halfway down p.5 of Topic 17 Corporate Governance and also that to ruva dated 2 May 2015 on Topic 19 as I make a few suggestions to these students which may give you some inspiration)

No don’t bother running it through Turnitin – if you reflect as suggested above and bring in your own experiences and examples it should be fairly original and unique to you.

Good luck!

Hi,
I failed my RAP on topic 6 but I passed my SLS.Do I need to make new presentation slides since I have not changed the topic and organisation though I have made a lot of changes in my RAP?

Hi Trephena,

I am about to submit..and to just to be sure..i failed in RAP and Communication portion of SLS..i havent change the topic/company..so i dun need to update my sls..just the presentation ryt? sorry i went through the initial posts buh most of the ppl had passed RAP with just communication sec failed….could you kindly confirm..thanks in advance 🙂

thanks 🙂