Yesterday's ECR exam - advice please!

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edited June 18 in AAT student discussion
Hello everyone, <BR><BR>I am a bit worried now, cos I know for a fact that I have got the labour costs postings back to front and I even put them the right way first of all!! So annoying. If that, and the defiantion of IRR was the only thing that I got wrong, do you think that would be enough for them to fail me? I even drew a Wages Control Account on my workings sheet so they wouldn't think I was totally clueless about wages, even though my answer proved otherwise! I am so worried, cos apart from that, I think it went ok.<BR>Thanks folks!

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  • System
    System Posts: 100,534 🤖 Admin 🤖
    Yesterday's ECR exam - advice please!

    good question ????? the answer system they use is a bit of a mystery plus when you get your results all it say is sucessful ... i mean you dont get a % or anything ... fingers crossed
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    System Posts: 100,534 🤖 Admin 🤖
    Yesterday's ECR exam - advice please!

    I agree that the pass rate system is a total mystery. As a tutor who has been to many AAT conferences, and putting together all the tips and hints that have been dropped, we can reasonable assume that at Intermediate level the pass mark is about 65%. But you have to be successful in both sections. I suspect that the question about labour costs would not be worth more than 10 or at most 15 marks, so getting that wrong is not on its own so serious.<BR><BR>Best advice, stop worrying about something that is over and cannot be changed and enjoy the Xmas break. You can always retake the damn thing in June (but hopefully that wont be necessary - certainly not if everything else went OK)<BR><BR>Graham Blott<BR>Northampton College
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    System Posts: 100,534 🤖 Admin 🤖
    Yesterday's ECR exam - advice please!

    Hi Everyone and Graham <BR><BR>In regards to the paper we sat on 29th for the ECR. I just wanted to see if you knew if any of my answers were correct or if anyone else got the same answers as I did. <BR><BR> <BR><BR>- For the re-order level I put 75,000kgs. <BR> <BR><BR>- For the labour question I put the: <BR> <BR><BR>£3000 as a CR in the ledger code for â??Work - In - Progress <BR>Employee NI and Employers NI â?? I added these together and put it in the ledger code for â??NI Payableâ?? as a DR. <BR>Net wages went is a DR in the ledger code for â??Net Wages Payable<BR>And the other one, which I cannot remember what it was, went in the ledger code remaining as a DR also. <BR> <BR><BR>- For the break-even I got £52,000 / £52 contribution per unit for Beta = 1000 units <BR> <BR><BR>- We should make more the Beta range and then the Gamma range and then the Alpha range. <BR> <BR><BR>- We should not adopt the policy of making just Beta, as the company would need to make and sell 1000 units of the Beta range, but the demand is only 200 units. Also, the other reason was because it may upset your current clients and therefore they might decide to buy all three of the products elsewhere, thus resulting in a loss of business for China Ltd. <BR> <BR><BR>- For the unit contribution it was £27 for Alpha, £52 for Beta and £43 for Gamma (I think). <BR> <BR><BR>- For the question were it asked if budgeted activity increases then what happens to the cost of overheads charged to an individual product. I put that if activity goes up the cost of overheads charged to one single unit is going to be less than if the activity was less, since you are spreading the cost over more hours. <BR> <BR><BR>- For the memo I put: <BR> <BR><BR>- Payback - is the amount of time it would take us to recover our initial cash cost of this investment. This is used to help us evaluate this project as it lets you know how quickly you will recover your initial investment. <BR><BR>- Internal rate of return â?? is the rate of return which the company would like on its investment. (We didnâ??t actually cover this is class). <BR><BR>- NPV is the net present value of money. It tells you the value of £x received in the future in todayâ??s value, i.e. how much £1 received in the future would be worth now. So, having a positive NPV means that you have cash surplus and that therefore you should go ahead with the project. This method deducts any costs that will be incurred against the initial cash flow, thus leaving the net present cash flow. <BR><BR>- I said that you should go ahead with the project as it has a relatively short payback period of 3 years, and that because it has a positive NPV, thus a cash surplus. <BR><BR><BR><BR> <BR>Look forward to hearing from you. <BR><BR><BR><BR><BR>

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