MAC exam. What do you think?

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Fiorellino
Fiorellino Registered Posts: 82 Regular contributor ⭐
in AAT Level 4 (Level 8 in Scotland)
I have just sat the MAC exam. It was ok... roll on three o'clock for anyone who want to compare the answers.
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  • Cyfarthfa
    Cyfarthfa Registered Posts: 62 Regular contributor ⭐
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    Hi There,

    I've just sat MAC too, is it 3 o clock that we can discuss it?

    I found the paper surprisingly ok, so much so I'm starting to worry big time that I missed some really obvious points!
  • DaveIOW
    DaveIOW Registered Posts: 85 Regular contributor ⭐
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    likewise, and I was quite cautious about it, I only finished with 10 mins to spare. Id like to put it down to all the studying I did!

    But...time to move on DFS on Wednesday, I hope it goes the same way!
  • Fiorellino
    Fiorellino Registered Posts: 82 Regular contributor ⭐
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    Yes we have to wait until three o'clock to discuss the paper... well only 20 minutes to go
  • Fiorellino
    Fiorellino Registered Posts: 82 Regular contributor ⭐
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    After studying index, all sort of budgets, life cycle etc ... there was any of this stuff. At the begin I got confused with the spices...
  • Tinkerbell007
    Tinkerbell007 Registered Posts: 64 Regular contributor ⭐
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    Yeah I got confused with that too, not seen anything like that on any of the pat papers from what I remember...
  • Fiorellino
    Fiorellino Registered Posts: 82 Regular contributor ⭐
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    yes it wasn't too bad. What did you get on the flexed budget? I have got 5000 of profit I think
  • Shoe Fairy
    Shoe Fairy Registered Posts: 15 New contributor 🐸
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    ....the flexed budget question threw me completely....
  • Fiorellino
    Fiorellino Registered Posts: 82 Regular contributor ⭐
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    Shoe Fairy wrote: »
    ....the flexed budget question threw me completely....

    Why? for the variable cost calculation?
  • Tinkerbell007
    Tinkerbell007 Registered Posts: 64 Regular contributor ⭐
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    Me too!! Really wasn't expecting it and I think I made a bit of a hash of finding the variable parts of the costs!!
  • Shoe Fairy
    Shoe Fairy Registered Posts: 15 New contributor 🐸
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    yep...how did you work out the fixed cost element of both labour and energy? i sooo messed that up!!!
  • Fiorellino
    Fiorellino Registered Posts: 82 Regular contributor ⭐
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    Shoe Fairy wrote: »
    ....the flexed budget question threw me completely....
    Shoe Fairy wrote: »
    yep...how did you work out the fixed cost element of both labour and energy? i sooo messed that up!!!

    I used the hi-lo method
  • Cyfarthfa
    Cyfarthfa Registered Posts: 62 Regular contributor ⭐
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    I think i got 500 profit as the actual was 5000 adverse and i can remember that the total variance was 5500 adverse.

    It through me at first as i thought do i flex the fixed costs but then as there was 2 lots of volumes you couldn't.

    I thought the last question was odd. Did it make any difference how much chicken people ate?? also did you get a utilisation of about 85%?? I put as a reccommendation to inclrease the tables avaiable so it would be less crowded?
  • Tinkerbell007
    Tinkerbell007 Registered Posts: 64 Regular contributor ⭐
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    I think I had 550 adverse too.

    Didn't like those chicken/restaurant questions at all!! Yeah 85% sounds like what I put too
  • Tinkerbell007
    Tinkerbell007 Registered Posts: 64 Regular contributor ⭐
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    5500 adverse even!!!
  • Fiorellino
    Fiorellino Registered Posts: 82 Regular contributor ⭐
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    Yes I got 85% for the utilisation and my reccommendation were to give some training to the staff, to increase the price per meal, and to add increase seats from 48 to 60
  • umerali2003
    umerali2003 Registered Posts: 400 Dedicated contributor 🦉
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    i dont know if its only me or there were 2 many written question on both sections they were not tough but very lengthy .. and specially that chicken question all the information was given in the question i dont why they still wana know wat was difference between london hotel and average hotels
  • umerali2003
    umerali2003 Registered Posts: 400 Dedicated contributor 🦉
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    i messed up da 1st figure on task 1.1 a and carried out that figure to part c . i hope so i will get penalised once if not 2 be then i messed up the whole task
  • Tinkerbell007
    Tinkerbell007 Registered Posts: 64 Regular contributor ⭐
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    The written questions took too much time I thought. I said to train the staff, increase the number of tables and change prices for that last question
  • umerali2003
    umerali2003 Registered Posts: 400 Dedicated contributor 🦉
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    i have attempted the whole paper not missed a single task .. dats bit of a positive i can take from dis paper .. i think i will make it or may be not lolzz lets see finger crossed
  • carolyn
    carolyn Registered Posts: 28 Regular contributor ⭐
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    reconciliation

    My variance reconciliation was out, Who remembered the answer
    ?
  • Tinkerbell007
    Tinkerbell007 Registered Posts: 64 Regular contributor ⭐
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    I didn't miss anything out was just so pushed for time and was writing up unttil the very end!

    What did you get for question 1.1?
  • Cyfarthfa
    Cyfarthfa Registered Posts: 62 Regular contributor ⭐
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    those chicken thing's were stupid, did you do simply the cost of materials for the chicken divided by 4 to give the no. of chicken meals? and then the no. of chicken meals divided by total meals provided to get the %?

    I did the exact same for the chocolate pudding. Was it this simply or did you have to incorporate the other meals?
  • Fiorellino
    Fiorellino Registered Posts: 82 Regular contributor ⭐
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    I have got 210 for the first 2 weeks and 420 for week 3 and 4 if I remember right
  • umerali2003
    umerali2003 Registered Posts: 400 Dedicated contributor 🦉
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    i made a silly mistake it should have been 30x7x1 for the 1st 2 months and 30x7x2 for the last 2 months but i dont know why da heck i took 150x1x30 for the 1st 2 months and 150x30x2 for the next 2 months and carried out till part c .. i hope so i get penalised once in part a for my mistake wat do u reckon ?
  • Cyfarthfa
    Cyfarthfa Registered Posts: 62 Regular contributor ⭐
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    yeah 210 and 420 sounds right.

    one bit i was unsure of was that with the raw material, with the closing stock it said 3 days of following months demand. Which I did based on the demand/7 * 3 as the restaurants were open 7 days. But i noticed that the production was run over 5 days so did they mean restaurant demand or production demand?
  • Cyfarthfa
    Cyfarthfa Registered Posts: 62 Regular contributor ⭐
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    umerali2003 wrote: »
    i made a silly mistake it should have been 30x7x1 for the 1st 2 months and 30x7x2 for the last 2 months but i dont know why da heck i took 150x1x30 for the 1st 2 months and 150x30x2 for the next 2 months and carried out till part c .. i hope so i get penalised once in part a for my mistake wat do u reckon ?

    you should be fine, they should just penalise you the once for that, it just means the examiner will have to recalculate the rest on your figures
  • umerali2003
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    Fiorellino wrote: »
    I have got 210 for the first 2 weeks and 420 for week 3 and 4 if I remember right

    yea dats right but unfortunatley when i jumped into the train i realised it should have been like dat i wish if i have changed dat .. Gosh i am panicking now do u think its enough 2 give me a fail in section 1 i did other parts quite well
  • Arina
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    Cyfarthfa wrote: »
    I think i got 500 profit as the actual was 5000 adverse and i can remember that the total variance was 5500 adverse.

    It through me at first as i thought do i flex the fixed costs but then as there was 2 lots of volumes you couldn't.

    I thought the last question was odd. Did it make any difference how much chicken people ate?? also did you get a utilisation of about 85%?? I put as a reccommendation to inclrease the tables avaiable so it would be less crowded?

    I also have 500 profit for flex budget, and total 5500 adverse. And utilisation of 85%!
  • umerali2003
    umerali2003 Registered Posts: 400 Dedicated contributor 🦉
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    Cyfarthfa wrote: »
    you should be fine, they should just penalise you the once for that, it just means the examiner will have to recalculate the rest on your figures


    yes but i made a terrible mess lot of tipex and crossing out .. just only in that question i have crossed out 2 times .. well i dont think so he will bother 2 look in to my mess he will simply put a big cross wat u think ?
  • Fiorellino
    Fiorellino Registered Posts: 82 Regular contributor ⭐
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    Cyfarthfa wrote: »
    yeah 210 and 420 sounds right.

    one bit i was unsure of was that with the raw material, with the closing stock it said 3 days of following months demand. Which I did based on the demand/7 * 3 as the restaurants were open 7 days. But i noticed that the production was run over 5 days so did they mean restaurant demand or production demand?

    I can remember what I did, but the figure was nice and round so I did not think too much

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