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Week 2 - Discussion
Prior to beginning work on this discussion forum,
Read Chapter 6: Operating Budgets from
Using Accounting and Financial Information: Analyzing, Forecasting, and Decision Making
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.
Watch
Budgetary Control for Managers
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.
Watch
(L029) Basic Budgeting Concepts - Leadership and Management
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.
For your initial post, share an example from your own experience about how your workplace established spending and hiring goals. Please summarize:
What worked well and what did not work well?
How might the forecasting processes be improved?
Guidelines:
Your post must be at least 250 words.
Please avoid naming the actual company or any person. Your experience and analysis of the situations are important, not the names.
If you do not have relevant experience in your professional life, you can use your experience from your personal life. For example, have you planned an event, done budgeting, and hired people for the event? What worked well there, and how do you think forecasting be improved?
You can create an imaginary situation for writing the post if you do not have relevant experience in your professional or personal life.
Refer to
Citing Within Your Paper
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and
Formatting Your References List
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.
Week 3 - Discussion
Prior to beginning work on this discussion forum,
Read
Understanding the competitive advantages of full service outsourcing in the make vs. buy decision
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.
Read Chapter 8: Capital Budgeting from
Using Accounting and Financial Information: Analyzing, Forecasting, and Decision Making
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.
For your initial post, describe a situation in work or home life where you needed to seek approval for a project or significant purchase. At work, examples include a new opportunity, a large purchase, or to hire and fill a
new position. For a home life situation, examples include buying a new home
or car or taking a big trip. In your post,
Describe the information you need to support your proposal.
Describe the data you collected and how you presented the data.
Explain how you presented the pros and cons of moving forward with your proposal.
Describe if your project or proposal was accepted and the reasons why.
Guidelines:
Your post must be at least 250 words.
You can use spreadsheets to present data and upload it to the discussion forum.
Refer to
Citing Within Your Paper
Links to an external site.
and
Formatting Your References List
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.
Week 4 - Discussion
rior to beginning work on this discussion forum,
Read Chapter 6: Analyzing Financial Reports from
Financial Decision
Making: An Introduction to Financial Reports
.
Read Chapter 2: Financial Ratio Analysis—Calculating and Graphing Ratios from
The Fundamentals of Financial Statement Analysis as Applied to the Coca-Cola Company
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.
For your initial post, assume you are creating an income statement and a balance sheet for your own personal financial situation.
What information would be in each statement?
How could you use the information if you were planning to buy a new car?
Guidelines:
List at least five categories (such as cash or stocks) that might appear on your income statement and balance sheet.
Your post must be at least 250 words.
Refer to
Citing Within Your Paper
Links to an external site.
and
Formatting Your References List
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.
Week 5 - Discussion
Prior to beginning work on this discussion forum,
Read
Create KPIs That Reflect Your Strategic Priorities
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.
Read
How to Make Sure You’re Not Using Data Just to Justify Decisions You’ve Already Made
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.
Read
What Are Your KPIs Really Measuring?
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For your initial post, create a balanced scorecard for yourself for the next three years in a spreadsheet. You need to:
Name five goals and two key performance indicators (KPIs) for each goal.
Make a forecast for each of the goals in the next three years.
Upload the spreadsheet to the discussion forum.
Give a brief overview of the information in the spreadsheet in your post. However, do not give too many details, as your classmates will
check the spreadsheet.
Guidelines:
Your original post should be of 70 to 100 words and the details should be present in the spreadsheet.
In the spreadsheet, write the goals and the KPIs for each in the first tab.
Create additional tabs for each goal and make the forecast.
Week 6 - Discussion
Prior to beginning work on this discussion forum,
Read Chapters 10, 11, and 12 from
Key Performance Indicators: Developing, Implementing, and Using Winning KPIs
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.
Watch
Financial Management and the Planning Cycle
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.
In your initial post,
Explain what you learned from the course and how it might be useful to you in your future career.
Explain briefly your recommendation for Fox Factory and your reasons for it, including highlights, lowlights, and areas that might remain unclear to you.
Revise and upload the Balanced Scorecard Excel sheet,
OMM622_Balanced Scorecard_Template.xlsx
, created in Week 5 with any feedback from your faculty.
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Revise the sheet only for the recommended option.
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Include five goals and associated KPIs using the recommended template.
Guidelines:
Your post must be a minimum of 250 words.
Avoid religious, cultural, gender bias, or insensitive words towards your instructor or classmates in your speech/post.
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