Planning: Limiting Your Scope [LO-5] Suppose you are preparing to recommend that top management install a new heating system that uses the cogeneration process.

The following information is in your files. Eliminate topics that aren’t essential and then arrange the other topics so that your report will give top managers a clear understanding of the heating system and a balanced, concise justification for installing it. Submit a clear and concise outline to your instructor.

• History of the development of the cogeneration heating process

• Scientific credentials of the developers of the process

• Risks assumed in using this process

• Your plan for installing the equipment in the headquarters building

• Stories about the successful use of cogeneration technology in comparable facilities

• Specifications of the equipment that would be installed

• Plans for disposing of the old heating equipment

• Costs of installing and running the new equipment

• Advantages and disadvantages of using the new process

• Detailed 10-year cost projections

• Estimates of the time needed to phase in the new system

• Alternative systems that management might want to consider