Chapter 10: Strategy and the Master Budget
Chapter 11: Decision-Making with a Strategic Emphasis
Chapter 12: Strategy and the Analysis of Capital Investments
Chapter 13: Cost Planning for the Product Life Cycle: Target Costing, Theory of Constraints, and Strategic Pricing
Watch: Analytic Hierarchy Process
Real World Application: Planning and Decision-Making Assignment
REAL WORLD APPLICATION: PLANNING AND DECISION-MAKING ASSIGNMENT
INSTRUCTIONS
OVERVIEW
This assignment provides students with an opportunity to utilize their knowledge of planning and
decision-making by applying a specific cost technique / concept to a selected organization.
Students will combine knowledge obtained from the textbook and peer-reviewed journal articles
in applying the selected technique / concept to the organization and showing how it improves /
impacts the organizations strategic allocation of financial resources.
INSTRUCTIONS
Select a technique/concept from the reading regarding Planning and Decision-Making and
develop a real-world application paper. Select a company that you work for now or have worked
for in the past, or a company in your community of which you have sufficient knowledge. Show
how the selected technique/concept would be applied to that particular business in its strategic
allocation of financial resources. Your paper must be in current APA format and must include
references from at least 7 peer-reviewed journal articles. The paper must be at least 5–7 pages,
not including the title page and reference page.
Note: Your assignment will be checked for originality via the Turnitin plagiarism tool.