CASE Suppose you are working as a team of the management accounting department in one of the company named Ampol Ltd. A new CEO recently joined your company requires in-depth knowledge of the business for planning and control of the company. Your team is required by the CEO to find facts, explain the implications of the findings, arrive at conclusions and give your recommendations by oral presentation and written report submission to the CEO. (Note that this is a business report, not an academic research paper.) REQUIREMENTS Company and background mission and vision - company's ownership structure and organizational structure (diagrams are preferred) headqurters and branches or subsidiaries company's products/services. What are the company's products/services; where does it sell its products/services, what products/services generate the most profit/revenue? major capital investment projects and/or expansion plan if any. Strategy What strategy does the company currently have in place to achieve its objectives? Identify if the company is using cost leadership strategy and/or differentiation strategy. Assess the company's internal and external weaknesses, threats, strengths and opportunities using SWOT analysis. - Analyse industries and competitors using Porter's Five Forces Model. - Identify and recommend any changes to the company's current objectives and strategy following your position analysis and understanding of the current strategy. - Prepare a balanced scorecard based on current mission, objectives and strategy that you propose (diagram is needed). Specify objectives, measures, targets, and initiatives for each of the four perspectives, i.e., financial, customer, internal business process, and learnings and growth. Performance cest management. e.g., - majer costs and their trend over the past 3 years if data is available. - cost management policies and/or practices, e.go, policies guiding cost management, practices or initiatives to manage or reduce cost, effect of cost management financial performance, e.g. revenue, profit, etc. over the past 3 years if data is available social performance, e.g. donations, employee gender equality initiatives, employee wellbeing, etc. enyironmental performance. egg, environmental damages and/or lawsuits, environmental protection activities, environmental investments. compliance with international environmental standards, etc. if applicable. CASE Suppose you are working as a team of the management accounting department in one of the company named Ampol Ltd. A new CEO recently joined your company requires in-depth knowledge of the business for planning and control of the company. Your team is required by the CEO to find facts, explain the implications of the findings, arrive at conclusions and give your recommendations by oral presentation and written report submission to the CEO. (Note that this is a business report, not an academic research paper.) REQUIREMENTS Company and background mission and vision - company's ownership structure and organizational structure (diagrams are preferred) headqurters and branches or subsidiaries company's products/services. What are the company's products/services; where does it sell its products/services, what products/services generate the most profit/revenue? major capital investment projects and/or expansion plan if any. Strategy What strategy does the company currently have in place to achieve its objectives? Identify if the company is using cost leadership strategy and/or differentiation strategy. Assess the company's internal and external weaknesses, threats, strengths and opportunities using SWOT analysis. - Analyse industries and competitors using Porter's Five Forces Model. - Identify and recommend any changes to the company's current objectives and strategy following your position analysis and understanding of the current strategy. - Prepare a balanced scorecard based on current mission, objectives and strategy that you propose (diagram is needed). Specify objectives, measures, targets, and initiatives for each of the four perspectives, i.e., financial, customer, internal business process, and learnings and growth. Performance cest management. e.g., - majer costs and their trend over the past 3 years if data is available. - cost management policies and/or practices, e.go, policies guiding cost management, practices or initiatives to manage or reduce cost, effect of cost management financial performance, e.g. revenue, profit, etc. over the past 3 years if data is available social performance, e.g. donations, employee gender equality initiatives, employee wellbeing, etc. enyironmental performance. egg, environmental damages and/or lawsuits, environmental protection activities, environmental investments. compliance with international environmental standards, etc. if applicable
