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Title: How did everyone go?! Thoughts?
Post by: lanancieee on November 11, 2011, 01:47:18 pm
It was long yeah? But goood. (:
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Post by: xXjAmEZXx on November 11, 2011, 01:52:44 pm
It was long, i finished with 5 minutes to go as opposed to the half an hour in unit 3. I thought it was a relatively easy, straightforward exam, however, there were many sly tricks which i picked up on during writing time which i didn't in reading time, such as why the creditors turnover increasing was bad (as the restriction was you could not use because it is not taking advantage of discounts.)
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Post by: kamb0z on November 11, 2011, 01:55:39 pm
Long, but relatively straight forward.
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Post by: Mario on November 11, 2011, 02:24:13 pm
too easy to the point im worried the A+ cuttoff will be ridiculously high
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Post by: MaddehZ on November 11, 2011, 02:38:12 pm
pretty good, feel sorry for ESL students as some questions were worded like shit
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Post by: Mario on November 11, 2011, 02:45:08 pm
i don't feel sorry for the ESL students.......
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Post by: MaddehZ on November 11, 2011, 02:48:05 pm
i don't feel sorry for the ESL students.......

good on ya champ
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Post by: andyzpipe on November 11, 2011, 02:49:40 pm
hope A+ cut off is low tho..
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Post by: Mario on November 11, 2011, 02:50:17 pm
i don't feel sorry for the ESL students.......

good on ya champ


FUAAARK thanks man i feel pretty good about it  feelsgoodman.jpg
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Post by: MaddehZ on November 11, 2011, 02:54:29 pm
i don't feel sorry for the ESL students.......

FUAAARK thanks man i feel pretty good about it  feelsgoodman.jpg

defs mirin, SS = 50 brah
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Post by: nacho on November 11, 2011, 02:55:12 pm
i don't feel sorry for the ESL students.......
i dont get it
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Post by: abzzzz on November 11, 2011, 02:59:11 pm
Nacho was your writing legible :P
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Post by: nacho on November 11, 2011, 03:01:36 pm
Nacho was your writing legible :P
Let's just say;
im accounting on the fact
that it was ledgerble
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Post by: _avO on November 11, 2011, 03:09:45 pm
Nacho was your writing legible :P
Let's just say;
im accounting on the fact
that it was ledgerble

damn son! wpwp

sounds like the exam was pretty good, i'd relaly like to see the CFS question
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Post by: likeialwaysdo on November 11, 2011, 03:27:27 pm
long, but straight forward. good exam :] i really llikeed it.

oh hhey matty and kang LOL
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Post by: abzzzz on November 11, 2011, 03:38:15 pm
I'm dreading the A+ cut off >< perhaps 80?
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Post by: mikesguns on November 11, 2011, 03:56:26 pm
Did anyone pick up the putting the stock gain and stock writedown in where it told about other expenses cos it was in the same period.
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Post by: mikesguns on November 11, 2011, 04:00:30 pm
Also how bad was it that the capital in the budget for the period did not equal 72000 the book was wrong
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Post by: nacho on November 11, 2011, 04:10:47 pm
I'm dreading the A+ cut off >< perhaps 80?
wooah crap,
i didnt find it hard, but i didnt find it that easy either! >.<
praying i didnt make sillies in budgeting i dont even know what mikesguns is on about.. :/
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Post by: RossiJ on November 11, 2011, 04:14:29 pm
Did anyone pick up the putting the stock gain and stock writedown in where it told about other expenses cos it was in the same period.

What the ?
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Post by: Anon123 on November 11, 2011, 04:16:16 pm
Did anyone pick up the putting the stock gain and stock writedown in where it told about other expenses cos it was in the same period.

I did this.

But my friend said you weren't supposed to (he did another exam where a similar thing showed up, and if it wasn't part of the same question like 1.2.1 and 1.2.2, as opposed to 1.2.1 and and 1.31)
really thats fucking unfair though...
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Post by: mikesguns on November 11, 2011, 04:17:48 pm
thats farkin bs its the same period and the same business, im gonna put in a complaint to vcaa haha.
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Post by: nacho on November 11, 2011, 04:18:57 pm
sucks to be you guys
that's what you get when your TOO good at accounting bahahah
na im sure you'll smash the exam anyway (u might even be right and anon's friend is trying to psych him out)
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Post by: soggie on November 11, 2011, 04:20:20 pm
Anyone who took the stock write down and the stock gain over will not get penalised, same as the people that didnt do it.
Considering it was only worth one mark it was a ridiculous mark allocation for that question anyway, even without carrying forward previously derived information!

For the Prepaid Rent question...1.5.3
I got..
37000 dr Prepaid rent revenue
37000 cr Rent revenue
37000 dr prepaid rent revenue
37000 cr p/l summary
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Post by: mikesguns on November 11, 2011, 04:25:00 pm
the sales revenue gets closed to the profit and loss summary bad luck, i think it should be 37200
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Post by: soggie on November 11, 2011, 04:25:04 pm
#37200** my bad
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Post by: soggie on November 11, 2011, 04:27:00 pm
nah man rent is an expense of course it has to be closed to the P/L summary, bad luck
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Post by: Anon123 on November 11, 2011, 04:27:34 pm
Also how bad was it that the capital in the budget for the period did not equal 72000 the book was wrong

oh man, just too fucking ambiguous

wasnt sure whether to use the old capital + profit - drawings, or to just use the figure they provided....
the figure they provided "should" be correct, so I just used it...fuckkkkKFIOWHSG*(WYHIOGfwagtweasv 33rf
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Post by: Anon123 on November 11, 2011, 04:28:16 pm
@soggie, not prepaid rent revenue

it would have been rent revenue

which i didnt do anyway

yay more marks lost
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Post by: mikesguns on November 11, 2011, 04:28:56 pm
ii meant rent revenue not sales
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Post by: soggie on November 11, 2011, 04:29:26 pm
the sales revenue gets closed to the profit and loss summary bad luck, i think it should be 37200


I obviously meant rent revenue should be closed not prepaid rent revenue
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Post by: iderf on November 11, 2011, 04:32:30 pm
what are you guys talking about? the accounting exam stunk......coz i took a dump on it. MUHAHAHAA
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Post by: soggie on November 11, 2011, 04:33:00 pm
Did everyone include the $10000 trade in allowance in the general journal, 2.3.1
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Post by: Furbob on November 11, 2011, 04:36:02 pm
yeah I did

Delivery Vehicle                     
Prepaid Insurance Exp
GST Clearing
   Sundry Creditor - King Motors

Sundry Creditor - King Motors
   Disposal of Delivery Vehicle

AMIDOINITRITE :(
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Post by: Anon123 on November 11, 2011, 04:36:57 pm
ofc
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Post by: soggie on November 11, 2011, 04:40:06 pm
In terms of the 'other expense question'
you would have also have had to deduct the sales return from question 1.1.1 in order to make net sales
there is no way this is for one mark
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Post by: Anon123 on November 11, 2011, 04:41:23 pm
In terms of the 'other expense question'
you would have also have had to deduct the sales return from question 1.1.1 in order to make net sales
there is no way this is for one mark

vcaa is fucking with you. why do you act surprised?
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Post by: soggie on November 11, 2011, 04:42:24 pm
vcaa clearly had no intention of that information from 1.1.1 being carried forward. they arent fucking with me, they are just retarted
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Post by: mikesguns on November 11, 2011, 04:43:14 pm
isnt total sales net sales
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Post by: Furbob on November 11, 2011, 04:43:55 pm
for the "Other Expenses" question

Sales were given as 320,000 or something (meh, lets just call it that)

GPR = Gross NP / 320,000 = 30% ---> go figure out Gross NP
NPR = NP / 320,000 = 10% ----> go figure out NP

NP - Gross NP = Other Expenses... right? D:

cant remember the figures exactly but that's what had to be done no?
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Post by: _avO on November 11, 2011, 04:45:12 pm
isnt total sales net sales

Total sales = credit + cash sales
Net sales = Total sales - sales returns

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Post by: nacho on November 11, 2011, 04:47:27 pm
everytime i come back to this thread i realise i forgot something =.=
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Post by: Anon123 on November 11, 2011, 04:48:45 pm
everytime i come back to this thread i realise i forgot something =.=

yeah i really need to get banned,

after exam: yeah did alright
now: whfi8hweo2aghiioegw3etg
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Post by: mikesguns on November 11, 2011, 04:49:08 pm
same haha i noticed with the rent rev i forgot to put jan in so i had 34200 instead of 37200, stupid oh well
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Post by: 24309 on November 11, 2011, 04:49:24 pm
This is what i did but i didnt include the stock write down and stuff cos it seemed that wouldve made it too confusing for a 1 mark questiom
Sales was 320000
GP was 30% so 96000

NP was 10% of sales so 320000

so i just did 96000-32000 = 64000 other expenses
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Post by: soggie on November 11, 2011, 04:52:43 pm
for the "Other Expenses" question

Sales were given as 320,000 or something (meh, lets just call it that)

GPR = Gross NP / 320,000 = 30% ---> go figure out Gross NP
NPR = NP / 320,000 = 10% ----> go figure out NP

NP - Gross NP = Other Expenses... right? D:

cant remember the figures exactly but that's what had to be done no?

there was a stock gain, a stock write down and a sales return from 1.1.1 that could have been used in that calculation
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Post by: MaddehZ on November 11, 2011, 05:15:52 pm
wtf 2.1.3 only wants operating outflows? GG me, did whole of operating activities
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Post by: Anon123 on November 11, 2011, 05:16:56 pm
wtf 2.1.3 only wants operating outflows? GG me, did whole of operating activities

omg...same

gg my life
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Post by: Shiverz360noscopez on November 11, 2011, 06:02:02 pm
for the "Other Expenses" question

Sales were given as 320,000 or something (meh, lets just call it that)

GPR = Gross NP / 320,000 = 30% ---> go figure out Gross NP
NPR = NP / 320,000 = 10% ----> go figure out NP

NP - Gross NP = Other Expenses... right? D:

cant remember the figures exactly but that's what had to be done no?

there was a stock gain, a stock write down and a sales return from 1.1.1 that could have been used in that calculation

Surely not... It was a change of question. Plus it was only one mark
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Post by: Saur11 on November 11, 2011, 07:48:04 pm
Did everyone fill there cash outflows, i was sitting there for like five minutes wondering if i had an alien
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Post by: kamb0z on November 11, 2011, 08:15:50 pm
LOL, I was so relieved when it said that it was only operating outflows...
couldn't be fucked doing the whole cash flow
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Post by: jimbothebest on November 11, 2011, 08:53:12 pm
Yeah thank god it was only a midget cash flow, if like passed years it was a whole page of cash flow and then a whole page of profit and loss I would have shat myself
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Post by: nacho on November 11, 2011, 09:04:55 pm
this year was a bit of a spoon feed.. they gave us what a profit and loss statement looked like.. who does that :/
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Post by: abzzzz on November 11, 2011, 09:07:21 pm
What happened to the 43mark stock card?
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Post by: fitzm11 on November 11, 2011, 09:17:25 pm
for the "Other Expenses" question

Sales were given as 320,000 or something (meh, lets just call it that)

GPR = Gross NP / 320,000 = 30% ---> go figure out Gross NP
NPR = NP / 320,000 = 10% ----> go figure out NP

NP - Gross NP = Other Expenses... right? D:

cant remember the figures exactly but that's what had to be done no?

well first it's a percentage so you had divide 30 by 100, and what if you had other revenue? it doesn't make sense to just subtract gross profit you had to work out COGS and total expenses and then subtract COGS to give you other expenses
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Post by: BoredSatan on November 11, 2011, 10:16:31 pm
for the other expenses calculation..

did we have to remember to included the stock write down and stock gain from before.. cause thats A LONG WAY BACK..

cause i completely forgot and just did GP-NP... -1 mark? :(
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Post by: dylanb48 on November 12, 2011, 09:35:13 am
did the whole operating cash flows shit was in such a rush. How much is that gonna cost me.... probably my 40 :(
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Post by: abzzzz on November 12, 2011, 11:16:04 am
Oh my god. The more i think about it the more i realize how much i screwed it up. 80% were credit purchases and 20% were cash, i didn't add the cash purchases of stock in my cash flow! aarrghh
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Post by: nicceeeonee on November 12, 2011, 11:19:59 am
i am so happy accounting is over :)
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Post by: nicceeeonee on November 12, 2011, 11:25:22 am
for the other expenses calculation..

did we have to remember to included the stock write down and stock gain from before.. cause thats A LONG WAY BACK..

cause i completely forgot and just did GP-NP... -1 mark? :(

I didnt, and not many people did. That question was definitely not worth only 1 mark, shoulda been at least 2...
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Post by: BoredSatan on November 12, 2011, 12:14:01 pm
for the other expenses calculation..

did we have to remember to included the stock write down and stock gain from before.. cause thats A LONG WAY BACK..

cause i completely forgot and just did GP-NP... -1 mark? :(

I didnt, and not many people did. That question was definitely not worth only 1 mark, shoulda been at least 2...

no we should be happy its only 1.. otherwise we would lose 2 for not including
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Post by: molllz on November 12, 2011, 12:27:30 pm
for the other expenses calculation..

did we have to remember to included the stock write down and stock gain from before.. cause thats A LONG WAY BACK..

cause i completely forgot and just did GP-NP... -1 mark? :(

I didnt, and not many people did. That question was definitely not worth only 1 mark, shoulda been at least 2...



wait did we have to include the stock gain??

no we should be happy its only 1.. otherwise we would lose 2 for not including
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Post by: molllz on November 12, 2011, 12:28:28 pm
for the other expenses calculation..

did we have to remember to included the stock write down and stock gain from before.. cause thats A LONG WAY BACK..

cause i completely forgot and just did GP-NP... -1 mark? :(

I didnt, and not many people did. That question was definitely not worth only 1 mark, shoulda been at least 2...

no we should be happy its only 1.. otherwise we would lose 2 for not including



are you sure we had to include the stock gain?
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Post by: soggie on November 12, 2011, 12:31:40 pm
for the other expenses calculation..

did we have to remember to included the stock write down and stock gain from before.. cause thats A LONG WAY BACK..

cause i completely forgot and just did GP-NP... -1 mark? :(

I didnt, and not many people did. That question was definitely not worth only 1 mark, shoulda been at least 2...

no we should be happy its only 1.. otherwise we would lose 2 for not including



are you sure we had to include the stock gain?

It you had to include the stock gain, then you also had to include the stock write down under gross profit, and you also had to deduct the sales return from sales to make 'net sales'...
there is no way VCAA were intending for all of the information derived in 1.1.1 to be carried forward into the other expense question for only 1 mark. Anyone who did it the way it with or without this information will get the mark
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Post by: Anon123 on November 12, 2011, 12:40:38 pm
The answer is NO, you were not supposed to carry forward that information.

I did - but my friend said he did another exam where something similar happened, and as they were not part of the same question [as in 1.1.1 and 1.anythingbut1.x] you were not supposed to...

really i think its unfair if they take marks off though...if you showed correct working then IMO you should get the mark
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Post by: abzzzz on November 12, 2011, 02:17:28 pm
I hope its one of those questions we all get a mark for
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Post by: BoredSatan on November 12, 2011, 02:26:42 pm
The answer is NO, you were not supposed to carry forward that information.

I did - but my friend said he did another exam where something similar happened, and as they were not part of the same question [as in 1.1.1 and 1.anythingbut1.x] you were not supposed to...

really i think its unfair if they take marks off though...if you showed correct working then IMO you should get the mark
you wont lose a mark for including it thats for sure..

but yeah im sure not many people would have remembered that far back.. so im hoping its right to not included as well
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Post by: Hodgeyhodgey on November 12, 2011, 09:42:48 pm
Pretty sure I included the stock write down and maybe even the gain, but not the sales return. Would I get a mark or lose it for including only some of the previous information?