This assignment provides an opportunity to apply your knowledge of budget and ethical concerns, including handling prot centers. Based on the following scenario, you Will . discover ethical and unethical behaviors in meeting corporate objectives, as well as their ethical implications. Scenario The Plant Shack Bistro is a franchiser in the highly competitive food industry. The company, which has been in operation for one year, is headquartered in Atlanta, GA. Each Plant Shack Bistro franchise is locally operated and owned but required to adhere to franchise performance measurements set by headquarters. ll allow it to estimate units of sales for January. The unit price of otato fries for Headquarters needs to develop a budget that wi vegan burgers beginning with 650,000 per quarter beginning in each burger is $6.50. The food chain would like to estimate 675,000 units of p each quarter. The unit price per serving of potato fries is $3.79. ecentralized, each manager is measured on the basis of netration, and return on investment. gement for these lted in the dismissal of an Since each franchise location is d prot contribution in his/her prot center, market pe Failure to meet the objectives established by corporate mana measurements has not been acceptable and usually has resu investment center owner. An anonymous survey of managers in the organization has revealed that local owners feel pressure to compromise their personal ethical standards to achieve corporate objectives for prots in the face of steep competition. For example, during an incident of poor weather conditions and not enough truck drivers, owners felt pressure to reduce quality control to a ~ level that did not assure the rejection of all unsafe products. Also, local restaurant managers were encouraged to use questionable sales tactics (such as overcharging customers) to increase the amount of the sales, charge for catering events but not provide the services, and collect money for coupon books with no delivery date scheduled for the books. Plant Shack Bistro's chief executive ofcer is disturbed by the survey ndings. in his opinion, this behavior cannot be condoned by the company. He concludes the company should do something about this problem. For this assignment, you will act as a consultant who has been hired by Plant Shack Bistro headquarters to provide recommendations regarding the budget type, benchmarks, a cost system that will be used to support an increase in sales, and ethical considerations. You will provide your ndings to the clients (Plant Shack Bistro) in a PowerPoint presentation that you complete in the Budget Dilemma template provided. Instructions ( Download the Week 8 Assignment Template [PPTX]. Complete the following in your presentation: Slide 1: Add your name, the date of submission, and the professor's name to this sl cg title of the presentation has been provided for you. The title page should look profe a. Follow SWS PowerPoint guidelines. ' Slide 2: Describe the role of all three stakeholders in the case. Be sure to list each stakeholder and briey describe their role in the scenario. Slide 3: Explain 4 factors from the scenario that contribute to the dilemma. Slide 4: Recommend a budget type appropriate for the scenario and describe the benets that Will result from this budget type. Rely on the course readings about budget types fort information. Slide 5: Recommend 2 benchmarks to increase sales so that the Plant Shack Bistro headquarters and franchise owners can monitor and adjust their strategy each month as needed.'Ihembenchmarks must be measurable in dollars or percent change
