Business Finance – Management Real World Application: Cost Management and Cost Systems Assignment BUSI730: Strategic Allocation of Financial Resources (D02)

 Read: Keller & Alsdorf: Chapters 5, 6

Chapter 1: Cost Management and Strategy

Chapter 2: Implementing Strategy: The Value Chain, the Balanced Scorecard, and the Strategy Map

Chapter 4: Job Costing

Chapter 5: Activity-Based Costing and Customer Profitability Analysis

Chapter 6: Process Costing

Watch: Strategic Management: Value Chain Analysis

Real World Application: Cost Management and Cost Systems Assignment Instructions

Overview

This assignment provides students with an opportunity to utilize their knowledge of cost management tools and cost systems 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 regarding Cost Management and Cost Systems 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.