how are accounting topics 'standard costing and variance analysis' applicable to the industry? You are to search for a recent practitioner-based article on this topic (not an academic article in a journal), and write350words reflectingonand relatingmaterialsfromtheunit(e.g.lecture,textbook,tutorial)tothepractical application as demonstrated by your article.The article can be on any aspect within that weeks topic. Fore example, inweek 7 it may be on shared services, or self-managed work teams among other aspects of that week's topic.

The practitioner-based article must not be more than 3 years old and can be up to 2pages in length. Itmustcomefroma highly reputablesource, suchasTheFinancialReview, FinancialManagement (theAICPA&CIMAmagazine), In TheBlack(theCPAAustraliaPublication),Acuity(theChartered Accountantmagazine), Harvard Business Reviewand other similar high quality publications.