Order Essentials of Academic Writing Assignment 1. When quoting someone directly from a website. 2. When using statistics or other data that are freely available from an encyclopedia or reference book. 3. When summarising the cause of past events, where there is agreement by most commentators on cause and effect. 4. When paraphrasing a definition found on a website and when no writer, editor or […]

Order Reflective Writing Assignment Where in paragraphs 2 and 3 above can you see examples that further address each of these reflective questions? Write one answer in the right hand column against each question. Again, one example has been done for you: Reflective question Evident in paragraph number … A. How were you affected by what happened? 2: … intense pressure … caused me to […]

The Nature of Organization Control Assignment With the exception of depreciation, all fixed and semi-variable overheads will increase by 5% with effect from 1 January 2005. (a) Prepare flexible budgets for monthly output levels of 55,000 and 65,000 units for the year ended 31 December 2005. (b) Explain the principal benefits that firms obtain from the preparation of flexible budgets. 2. Great Lakes Co. is […]

Order Aspects of Standard Costing Assignment 4. Discuss the key factors that would be considered in determining whether a cost variance should be investigated. 5. Examine the interrelationships of budgeting, creativity and culture and discuss the implications of such interrelationships for management control systems. 6. Contingency theory has played a significant role in the management accounting literature of the past two decades. Critically examine the […]

Order Linear Programming Assignment (a) An enquiry has been received from a wholesaler in Kazakhstan who has indicated that he is prepared to take 12,000 units at a price of £16 per unit, with Submarine Cables paying the carriage and customs charges estimated at £2000. Submarine Cables has never previously dealt with this wholesaler or this distant market. (b) Reduce selling price by 10%. It […]

Discus The Nature of Strategic Decision Making 1. A company is considering the following investment projects. Both would involve purchasing machinery with a life of 5 years. • Project 1 would generate annual cash flows of £150,000; the machinery would cost £350,000 and have a scrap value of £45,000. • Project 2 would generate annual cash flows of £250,000; the machinery would costs £800,000 and […]

Discus Strategic Aspects of Performance Measurement 1. Discuss the extent to which ‘strategic management accounting’ represents a new dimension of management accounting. 2. Critically examine the interrelationships between motivation and performance appraisal and discuss the implications of such interrelationships for management control systems. 3. Examine the extent to which it is possible for a multinational organisation to specify an optimal transfer pricing system. 4. For […]

Discus Environmental issues in conventional accounting 1. Explain how the notions of effectiveness, efficiency and equity are related to decision-making, sustainable development and accountability. 2. What is the difference between an accountor and an accountee? Is it important for the needs of both to be taken into account when designing an accounting system? Provide reasons for your view. 3. Environmental accounting systems have been proposed […]

Order Introduction and framework Assignment 1. Why has the importance of environmental accounting to business grown in the past ten years? 2. What is an external stakeholder? Provide an example of a situation where pressure from external stakeholders has pushed managers to engage with environmental issues. 3. What mechanisms are available to help provide stakeholders with an assurance that a company complies with environmental regulations? […]

Order Corporate eco-efficiency Assignment 1. Distinguish between syntactics, semantics and pragmatics. Are these perspectives independent of each other or are they interwoven? 2. What is the critical test for any accounting system? Does this test rely on syntactic, semantic or pragmatic perspectives? 3. Define the two main environmental objectives proposed for management of companies: sustainable development and eco-efficiency. Are these objectives related? 4. Is sustainable […]