Assignment details

Select one or more newspaper/website/magazine article(s) (written in English) which raise management accounting issues about a particular organisation. The articles must be written recently (after 1 January 2022) and taken from an appropriate source, such as the ABC, the BBC, Australian Financial Review, The Australian, The Wall Street Journal (US), Financial Times (UK) and Economist (UK).

Required

1) A reliable link and reference to the relevant article(s) so that senior management can access it/them. (3 Marks)

2) Consideration of the management accounting issues raised by the article(s), including any potential strengths/opportunities and any weaknesses/threats identified. (11 Marks)

3) Consideration of management accounting techniques or tools that lead to solutions/courses of action/lessons learned that you would recommend how the issues identified can be tackled or how the organisation concerned can improve its performance. (11 Marks)

The article(s) that you find are merely a starting point, and your research into the organisation needs to go much further. Adopt a report format which means having the following sections:

Executive summary

Introduction

Body of the report

Conclusion

Recommendations

References