How many cap 2's will you be repeating?

MrMatisse

Maybe its just me but im pretty pis*ed off with the CAP 2's

SFMA? WTF nightmare paper, audit you just never know, financial reporting i did shi* in that too. Roll on tax.

Reckon im a dead cert for repeating at least two.

The people who set the papers dont seem to be too familiar with the textbooks or the lectures.

Mat85

dunno if id be sayin roll on tax judgin by how **** the past two have been, they really are liable to put anything on it!

MrMatisse

Mat85 wrote: »

dunno if id be sayin roll on tax judgin by how **** the past two have been, they really are liable to put anything on it!

Too right about tax, im waiting for jimmy lives in zimbabwe and has inhetited a cow in chile from his aunt in nigeria, how much zimbabwean CAT does he owe?

maddogcollins

Really-Stressed wrote: »

Too right about tax, im waiting for jimmy lives in zimbabwe and has inhetited a cow in chile from his aunt in nigeria, how much zimbabwean CAT does he owe?

Made me smile!!

Its been a rotten week..The exams are really not relevant to what has been in the text books or covered in lectures.. Looking forward to end of exam feedback form we will get from them. Hopefully Tax is ok,I cant go back to work and say i failed all 4!

Hanley

maddogcollins wrote: »

Its been a rotten week..The exams are really not relevant to what has been in the text books or covered in lectures.. !

Agree with this... I don't know if it's a failing of the lecturers to communicate the syllabus in the correct manner, or whether the examiners are just being unnecessarily awkward.

I thought Audit was ok, it was a challenging paper where you needed to understand the subject - exactly what they were hoping to achieve.

SFMA - wtf.... completely unrepresentative of pretty much anything anyone covered. I've spoken to one person who was happy!!

FR - I thought it was a fair paper.... started with Q4 and Q2 before tackling the case study. Q4 was an extremely generous question. Q2 was alright... manageable I thought. The EPS part of Q1 was very similar to the summer 2006 prof III Q5, but the rest of the question.... wtf????? Soooo random... 8 marks for ethics related Q's?? The adjustments in the consol itself were so random as well. That big one with the sale of the plants was horrific.

I THINK I may have done enough to scrape the 3.... really not confident at all with that.

Tomorrow's gonna suck... I'm just gonna try do the simple things right and pick up marks after that!!

prinz

At least 2 possibly 4. Has been the worst set of exams I think I've ever sat. Fingers crossed on scraping a pass on Audit & SFMA.

Fin Rep = Epic Fail. Always struggled with it, but had put a lot of time into it at the expense of tax and now today was a nightmare. Had let tax slide so tomorrow wont be much fun either.

Had said beforehand I'd actually be ok with passing 2, but I'm not 100% on getting the 2 I planned on. Passed Audit and SFMA in the mocks but found the real papers more difficult, just vague in Audit and largely irrelevant to the course material in SFMA.

ahtfulal

I only did SFMA and probably failed it. The lecturers are not good in my opinion. Jim Daly is very poor lecturer. I did the prof 3 MABF and he just seems to do the same things in every lecture like variances should have cost but did cost etc. He's a pure chancer. The other lad his name escapes me but like in all fairness if you didnt go to any of his lectures you would probably be better off. Its unreal and I heard that both lecturers are given the paper in draft by the examiner to review to see if its fair before its printed.

Hackysack

maddogcollins wrote: »

Its been a rotten week..The exams are really not relevant to what has been in the text books or covered in lectures.. Looking forward to end of exam feedback form we will get from them. Hopefully Tax is ok,I cant go back to work and say i failed all 4!

Yeah, I can't wait until they say that question 1 in Finance was a straightforward question and that students who studied it should do well in it.

prinz

I never understood why consolidations weren't done as a Continuous Assessment test early in the year, leaving everything else in there. It was just way too confusing for me and threw me off for the whole paper, was raging.

prinz

Definitely two failed, and two up in the air could go either way. Not a great return on the investment put into lectures, study etc.

Hanley

prinz wrote: »

Definitely two failed, and two up in the air could go either way. Not a great return on the investment put into lectures, study etc.

I lol'd at that.

You could say you invested in non-value creating activities!!

Hackysack

Lads are ye seriously making accountancy jokes?

prinz

Hackysack wrote: »

Lads are ye seriously making accountancy jokes?

:pac: been so totally immersed in it for weeks i cant help it. badly need time away from accountancy.... but back to work monday

manafana

tell you one thing if i get 100% ROI it will be by avoiding an audit of my work lol

Hanley

Hackysack wrote: »

Lads are ye seriously making accountancy jokes?

Sorry... having put so much into those exams and not getting anything back it was always gonna be a liability that that would happen.

Hackysack

Next there'll be accountancy chat up lines ("Why don't you show me your GAAP?" "Can I liquidate your assets?")

Ideo

or how about,

'you have a great figure, and I'd know, I'm an accountant...' :P

prinz

Hackysack wrote: »

Next there'll be accountancy chat up lines ("Why don't you show me your GAAP?" "Can I liquidate your assets?")

Ideo wrote: »

or how about,

'you have a great figure, and I'd know, I'm an accountant...' :P

Nice lines I'll be sure to use them.

maddogcollins

Just wondering if people emailed institute or what was done to show your annoyance! I was out of country since after exam and only back now..who was it that you email if you did so?

King Keano

Is somebody gonna take the opportunity to indulge in a few "double entry" jokes here while were at it .... ?!!! :P

Hackysack

maddogcollins wrote: »

Just wondering if people emailed institute or what was done to show your annoyance! I was out of country since after exam and only back now..who was it that you email if you did so?

Basically you emailed the 'students union' and they comprise a report and send it to the examiners summarising the bulk of people's issues I think. Well that's the understanding I got.

King Keano wrote:

Is somebody gonna take the opportunity to indulge in a few "double entry" jokes here while were at it .... ?!!!

That'd be a bit TOO easy now

prinz

Heard today a story that at least 2 of the big 4 have made representations to the Institute over the exams. Theym won't listen to us IMO but if the firms get involved they'll take notice.

Ideo

yeah i heard that two. everybody see the report by the student assoc yeah? theres emails knocking around with it attached

Dell2009

What report?

wardso84

Ideo wrote: »

yeah i heard that two. everybody see the report by the student assoc yeah? theres emails knocking around with it attached

is there any way you could attach it onto the forum?

Ideo

Attached!

prinz

That report pretty much nails it. Bit late in the day now though. Agreed with everything for Audit,SFMA,Fin Rep. Couldn't comment on Tax because failing that was my own fault.

I think I'll be forwarding that on to my boss prior to results coming out as a warning!