College Budget

In developing a budget for a postsecondary institution, there are expenditures that can be controlled when the need arises. However, in some cases, reducing certain expenditure items may be difficult. In addition, such reductions cause anxiousness among the affected people about their jobs and benefits. Therefore, you need to be very careful while making such reductions in the budget.

In this assignment, you will assess ways to reduce expenditures in the budget process.

Tasks:

Secure a working budget from a postsecondary institution in your state (Here is the link to the one that I have selected: http://www.alamo.edu/uploadedFiles/District/Employees/Departments/Fiscal_Services/Transparency_%E2%80%93_Financial_Information/2014/Fiscal-Year-2014-2015-b.pdf

Imagine that you have been assigned to develop a research paper that discusses expenditures that the institution has control of when reducing this budget. Research information to find out how each expenditure item included in this budget will be controlled.

Prepare a 3 page paper to make recommendations for reducing the budget. Address the following questions:

From the expenditures in the budget, which expenditure is most difficult to control?

Who should be involved in making decisions on reducing the budget?

Which expenditures will present challenges for those preparing the budget? How can you overcome these challenges?

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BUSINESS MODEL INTERROGATION & DEVELOPMENT

STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT ACCOUNTING

BUSINESS MODEL INTERROGATION & DEVELOPMENT

Pick a company of your choice (probably a public limited company, for easy access to information and verification by me) and then interrogate the business model of this company by telling us how the company makes money showing the interaction between the product market and the capital market. Tell us whether their products are ‘bought’ or ‘sold’. You can use any known framework e.g. the Boston Consulting Group Matrix or Product Life Cycle approach to describe their product/service portfolio (product market). Be careful to stay more in the financial and strategic side of the debate and not necessarily stray off to other functional areas like marketing or HR (not a marketing or HR essay). Whenever possible and you talk about product portfolios, talk about their relative profitability and that is how it may differ from a marketing or HR essay.
Also, tell us what internal structures or architecture needs changing or revising to give it a needed boost. You can tell us what could go wrong with their current business model in the light of other competitions and new product developments from rivals and how your chosen company should respond.
As additional guide, always think in terms of how your critique affects the bottom line (whether from revenue or cost side).
Further Guidelines:
• A background to the company’s current operations and architecture would be very useful.
• You should evaluate the company’s current business model (strategy operating and financial architecture) and whether it should be changed or modified.
• Evaluate how the company’s business strategy affects its organisational structure.
• Is the current organisational structure right for the business in the light of their model and the changes you may propose?
• Has any technological changes disrupted their business model and operating architecture (or would it impact on their model if there were such a technology)?
• Think about avenues to reduce their cost and/or improve quality.
• Use of visual representations using key graphs/charts is highly recommended.

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Creating a Flowchart

Workflow analysis aims to determine workflow patterns that maximize the effective use of resources and minimize activities that do not add value. There are a variety of tools that can be used to analyze the workflow of processes and clarify potential avenues for eliminating waste. Flowcharts are a basic and commonly used workflow analysis method that can help highlight areas in need of streamlining.
In this Assignment, you select a common event that occurs regularly in your organization and create a flowchart representing the workflow. You analyze the process you have diagrammed and propose changes for improvement.
To prepare:
Identify a common, simple event that frequently occurs in your organization that you would like to evaluate.
Consider how you would design a flowchart to represent the current workflow.
Consider what metrics you would use to determine the effectiveness of the current workflow and identify areas of waste.
To complete:
Write a 3- to 5-page paper which includes the following:
Create a simple flowchart of the activity you selected. (Review the Sample Workflow of Answering a Telephone in an Office document found in this week’s Learning Resources for an example.)
Next, in your paper:
Explain the process you have diagrammed.
For each step or decision point in the process, identify the following:
Who does this step? (It can be several people.)
What technology is used?
What policies and rules are involved in determining how, when, why, or where the step is executed?
What information is needed for the execution of this step?
Describe the metric that is currently used to measure the soundness of the workflow. Is it effective?
Describe any areas where improvements could occur and propose changes that could bring about these improvements in the workflow.
Summarize why it is important to be aware of the flow of an activity.
Remember to include a cover page, introduction, and summary for your paper.
Type your paper here. The references belong on a page of their own. So does the title page. This is your introduction so tells us about the process you are going to use in your diagram.

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economics of health care

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Robotic Surgery

The team member will elaborate on the evolution of the science and illustrate the time line that has developed from the genesis of robotic surgery. The team member’s focus on the subject will continue as the member interprets how religion, culture, beliefs and language collaborate and/or coincides with robotic surgery. This will give the reader of the paper and viewers of the presentation the history behind the science along with potential factors affecting other individual’s trust and certainty of the scientific topic and practice.

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Comparative analysis of slavery

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