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APC 309 Assignment Jan 2014

This document provides instructions for an individual assignment assessing a strategic management accounting module. Students must write a 3,000 word report answering two questions. Part A asks students to advise on the best approach for measuring manager performance - cost centre, profit centre, or investment centre management - providing a critical review of each. Part B asks students to critically evaluate three costing approaches - marginal/variable costing, full/absorption costing, and activity-based costing - identifying situations where each is more appropriate and justifying their choices. The document provides guidance that the aim is understanding key strategic management accounting areas in a large international company through critical analysis and evaluation rather than descriptive reproduction.

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APC 309 Assignment Jan 2014

This document provides instructions for an individual assignment assessing a strategic management accounting module. Students must write a 3,000 word report answering two questions. Part A asks students to advise on the best approach for measuring manager performance - cost centre, profit centre, or investment centre management - providing a critical review of each. Part B asks students to critically evaluate three costing approaches - marginal/variable costing, full/absorption costing, and activity-based costing - identifying situations where each is more appropriate and justifying their choices. The document provides guidance that the aim is understanding key strategic management accounting areas in a large international company through critical analysis and evaluation rather than descriptive reproduction.

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SUNDERLAND BUSINESS SCHOOL Module: Strategic Management Accounting APC 309 Individual Assignment Hand in Date:- 6th January

2014 General Information Weighting 100% of the marks for this module This is an individual assignment of 3,000 words (+/-10%), excluding appendices and bibliography. The word count MUST be shown on the front of the assignment. There are TWO questions to be answered in this assignment. Each question carries a maximum mark of 50%. All of the learning outcomes for the module are being assessed in this assignment. The learning outcomes are shown in the section entitled Marking Guide, which is further on in this document. The Universitys policy on cheating collusion and plagiarism will be applied to this piece of work. You are required to produce a report which answers the following TWO questions: Requirements: Part a. You have just been appointed to the position of Finance Director for a large multinational corporation. The business operates in about 20 countries around the world and has a very diverse product, service and business portfolio. Some of the businesses within the group buy from one another. You are looking at ways to maximise profits for the corporation as a whole and as such you are investigating different ways to measure the performance of individual managers who each have responsibility for one part of the portfolio. As the organisations Finance Director you have been asked to advise the Board of Directors as to which of the following three approaches to measuring performance is best for the organisation: 1) Cost Centre management; or 2) Profit Centre management; or 3) Investment Centre management? Your answer should include a critical review of each approach.

Part b. Organisations need to know the cost of products or services they provide for a variety of decision making situations. Critically evaluate the following three approaches to costing products or services: 1. Marginal or variable costing; 2. Full or absorption costing; 3. Activity Based costing (ABC). For each approach, identify two managerial decision making situations where that approach is more appropriate than the other two and justify why you have chosen that approach over the other two approaches in a particular decision making situation.

Guidance:

Students are encouraged to be inquisitive and innovative in their approach as to what should be included in this report. The following may be of some use in providing guidance as to what could possibly be included, although this is in no way meant to be prescriptive.

The aim of the assignment is to help you understand how key areas of strategic management accounting are demonstrated in practice by a large, international company. This will include investigating topics from throughout the course linked to the above issues. Some of the principles, concepts and models will be more relevant to your chosen approach than others and so it is likely that different students will formulate different approaches to the problems. This is normal, it is not expected that all of the course content will be used in the analysis, concentrate on that which you feel is most important.

As part of your work you might find it helpful to briefly explore the underlying theory behind the key areas of investigation that you identify before applying them to report. With a total of 3,000 words you do not have a lot of room for long introductions so assume you are writing to a sophisticated audience who has a working knowledge of strategic management accounting and is well versed in business theory. Numerical examples for illustrative purposes may be of use but should not be the main thrust of the work. If used they should be to provide evidence to support your findings from your other analysis of position and policies. If other sources are used remember to reference everything!

Please avoid relying too heavily on descriptive sections reproducing information available from course material or the set text. It is your own logical, evaluation of the situation, the interpretation of course material and presentation, with critical analysis, of a coherent strategic plan that will attract high marks.

APC309 JANUARY ASSESSMENT MARKING GUIDE

Marking Guide The learning outcomes for this module assessed by this piece of work are Knowledge 1. Critically evaluate a range of key strategic management accounting models and concepts. 2. Critically understand of specific analytical skills in key areas within management accounting at local and international level 3. Critically understand of the role and limitations of management accounting theory. Skills

4. Applied the key management accounting concepts and methodologies in order to


contribute to successful decision making in an organisation.

In light of this the assessment criteria in the grid below will be used when assessing your work.

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