HOW COULD GUILLERMO USE BUDGETS AND PERFORMANCE REPORTS IN HIS DECISION MAKING PROCESS?

21 May HOW COULD GUILLERMO USE BUDGETS AND PERFORMANCE REPORTS IN HIS DECISION MAKING PROCESS?

Week 1

Individual Assignment: Guillermo Furniture Store Scenario

Resource: Guillermo Furniture Store Scenario

Read the Guillermo Furniture Store Scenario.

Write a paper in no more than 700 words explaining the following:

How could Guillermo use budgets and performance reports in his decision making process?

How might ethics influence his accounting decisions?

What accounting information is most relevant for Guillermo to consider when making decisions?

Format your paper consistent with APA standards.

Week 2

Learning Team Assignment: Financial Statement Analysis

Choose three companies, one from each of the following three sectors: manufacturing, service, and retail sales. One company must be foreign.

Compute the quick and current liquidity ratios, the DuPont ratio, profit margin, asset utilization, and financial leverage of each of the three companies.

Write a paper in no more than 1,050 words discussing how differences in the industries and different IASB and FASB measurement conventions affect presentations. If one of the companies uses the cash basis of accounting, how would that differ from the accrual basis?

Format your paper consistent with APA standards.

Week 3

Individual Assignment: Practice Text Exercises

Resource: Introduction to Management Accounting

Complete the following problem sets from the text:

Question 2-48, CVP and Financial Statements for a Mega-Brand Company, on p. 82

Question 2-61, CVP in a Modern Manufacturing Company, on p. 87

EXCEL Application Exercise, CVP and Break-Even, on p. 89

Question 3-38, Mixed Cost, Choosing Cost Drivers, and High-Low and Visual-Fit Methods, on p. 121-122

Learning Team Instructions: Guillermo Furniture Store Paper

Review the Week Six Assignment and begin working on the cost relationships and behaviors section for the Guillermo Furniture Store Paper.

Week 4

Learning Team Assignment: Guillermo Furniture Store Analysis

You are the analyst for Guillermo Furniture Store. You are asked to revise the store’s flex budget by using Excel®. Assume Guillermo continues doing business with his current budget.

Write a budget in no more than 700 words that includes risks associated with sales forecasts and an analysis of ethical considerations in the preparation and subsequent use of the budget. Consider how the organization’s code of ethics requires an ethics analysis for any performance tool.

Format your paper consistent with APA standards.

Week 5

Individual Assignment: Text Exercises

Resource: Introduction to Management Accounting

Complete the following problem sets from the textbook and show your work.

EXCEL Application Exercise 12-59, Allocating Costs Using Direct and StepDown Methods, on p. 584

Question 13-B3, Comparison of Variable Costing and Absorption Costing, on p. 617

Question 13-45, Variable and Absorption Costing, on p. 621

Question 13-48, Overhead Variances, on p. 622

Question 13-49, Variances, on p. 622

Week 6

Individual Assignment: Final Exam

Resources: Final exam and assigned readings from all weeks

Select the link to the final exam on your student webpage. The exam is available from the end of Week Five through the end of Week Six.

Complete the final exam. Only one attempt is allowed, which is timed and must be completed in 3 hours. Results are auto-graded and sent to your facilitator. Note. Final exam questions are adapted from Introduction to Management Accounting.

Learning Team Assignment: Guillermo Furniture Store Paper

Resource: Guillermo Furniture Store Scenario

Review the Guillermo Furniture Store Scenario.

Write a paper in no more than 1,400 words in which you explain the following: