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Stand-Alone Project: Case Study in Managerial Accounting (250 points)

You should begin working on the Stand-Alone Project early in the course. Each assignment provides a benchmark for completing the Stand-Alone Project in a timely manner while working through the course. You will find this information in the “Stand-Alone Project Benchmark” section of each assignment.

Your Stand-Alone Project responses should be both grammatically and mechanically correct and formatted in the same fashion as the project itself. If there is a Part A, your response should identify a Part A, etc. In addition, you must appropriately cite all resources used in your response and document them in a bibliography using APA style.

Each assignment in this course focuses on a different concept in managerial accounting. These concepts apply whether a firm is involved in manufacturing, merchandising, or service, as well as non-profit organizations. The purpose of this project is to help you understand the use and application of the concepts covered in the course. You are being asked to study an actual firm and to report on its use of the concepts covered in this course. (250 points) (A 20-page response is required.)

Part A    Select a firm that is publicly traded. This ensures you can access the needed data and information from published financial disclosures and articles found in various business journals such as Strategic Finance, Management Accounting Quarterly, etc.

Note: For large firms, you may want to study only a segment of the firm. If so, ensure that you break down company data for the segment chosen.

Provide the following background information on the firm you selected. (25 points)
1.    Firm Name
2.    Description of the Industry in Which the Firm Operates
3.    Type of Business or Segment of the Firm (manufacturing, merchandising, service, or non-profit organization)
4.    General Description of the Firm’s Operations, Organization, Products, and Markets

Note: The rest of the report will deal with the concepts covered in this course. Following are concepts that should be discussed in your report. Although some discussion relating to each concept is expected, please feel free to place a greater emphasis on topics of special interest to you. You may also want to place an emphasis on an area of weakness that may result in corrective action by the firm.

Conversely, for your benefit, you may want to explore in depth a topic in which the firm has a real strength. Your study may find areas in which the firm needs improvement. A “no” answer for many of the questions would indicate a weakness in the firm’s systems. In those instances, you should make recommendations. Provide complete details of the recommendations that you make, including why the recommendation is being made and the benefits to be gained. Each of the following components of your report requires a minimum of two (2) pages. This allows flexibility for you to emphasize your areas of specific interest.

Part B    Cost Behavior and Cost-Volume-Profit (CVP) (Lesson #1): Assess your firm’s use of these tools. (45 points)
1.    Does the firm break down their costs by behavior?
2.    Do they determine their break-even point?
3.    Do they use these concepts in the decision-making process? Do you have any recommendations to make?

Part C    ABC, Job Order, and Process Costing and Cost Allocations (Lesson #2): Describe the cost system used by your firm. (45 points)
1.    If your firm is not using ABC costing, do you think that it is a good candidate to do so? Why or why not?
2.    Do you have any recommendations to make?

Part D    Budgeting and Variance Analysis (Lesson #4): Describe the budgeting process used by your firm. (45 points)
1.    Does the process follow the responsibility concept?
2.    Can you ascertain how employees view the process?
3.    Is a flexible budget concept used? Do you have any recommendations to make?

Part E    Cost, Profit, and Investment Center (Lesson #5) (45 points)
1.    Is decision making centralized or decentralized?
2.    How is performance evaluated?
3.    Does the firm follow the decision-making and evaluation concepts covered in this course?
4.    Does the firm use a balanced scorecard?
5.    Do you have any recommendations to make?

Part F    Decision-Making Policies (Lesson #6): You were given a number of examples showing how relevant financial information was used in decision making. Review the firm’s policies regarding these decisions. (45 points)
1.    Does it follow the concepts covered in this course?
2.    Do you have any recommendations to make?

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brief a case

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Evaluating a Professional Code of Ethics:

Public or community safety profession – ideally the profession you are planning to work in or already work in: Emergency and Security Management

Description

You will find online an example of a Professional Code of Ethics from a public or community safety profession. You will evaluate the Code of Ethics by answering a series of structured questions.

Specification

Each question should be answered in one or two paragraphs.

Process

1. Find a relevant Code of Ethics for a public or community safety profession – ideally the profession you are planning to work in or already work in. To find a relevant Code of Ethics start by searching in the Illinois Institute of Technology Centre for the Study of Ethics in Professions: Codes of Ethics Online at

http://ethics.iit.edu/index1.php/Programs/Codes%20of%20Ethics

If you aren’t able to find anything in the IIT website, try Googling the name of your current or future profession plus “code of ethics”. Here’s a site for a U.S. Firefighters Codes of Ethics in Palm Beach found that way:

http://www.pbcfr.org/pdfs/TrainingAndSafety/COPD/FireFighter/QS_FireServiceCodeofEthics.pdf

And another for the Code of Ethics for the International Association of Emergency Managers:

http://www.iaem.com/about/IAEMCodeofEthics.htm

Here’s a code of ethics for family mediators in Canada: Members Code of Professional Conduct

If you are really not able to find a Code of Ethics for your current or future profession, e-mail me and I can perhaps suggest some search terms.

2. Read Exercise 8.2 in McLachlan , Ethics in Action: Making Ethical Decisions in Your Daily Life, pp. 268-269. Answer the questions McLachlan poses.

Look at additional materials for upload exercise 8.2

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one page summary for each article
here are 12 articles and i need one page summary for each one, so the total is 12 pages

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For this assignment, you will research servant leadership and apply it to your current or a previous work environment in a paper (8-10 pages). You must use at least eight scholarly references to support your writing.

When writing your paper, you should address the following:
1) Analyze the concept of servant leadership.
2) Compare and contrast servant leadership with at least two other models of leadership.
3) Describe the organization (e.g., industry, number of employees, vision, goals).
4) Describe how servant leadership can be applied to your organization.
5) Explain how implementing servant leadership would impact the ability of the organization to realize its vision and accomplish its goals.
6) Explain how you might go about implementing servant leadership within your organization or within a specific part of the organization if you were the leader.
7) Identify the following (relating to implementing servant leadership within your organization): (a) Stakeholders who would be advocates or supporters. (b)Potential challenges or obstacles and how you would overcome them.

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INFORMATION TO ASSIST IN WRITING THIS PAPER

1. Organization = American Family Insurance
2. I worked at the call center in Phoenix, Arizona
3. Position I held = Investigating Claims Adjuster (I have attached a copy of my Job Description)
4. Total Number of Employees = “American Family Insurance contracts with nearly 3,500 independent contractor agents and employs about 7,500 people in a variety of professional areas, including: actuarial, brokerage, claims, communications, education, government affairs, human resources, information services, investments, legal, marketing, office administration, product design and underwriting.”
5. Estimated Number of Employees in my department – AZ Claims Office = 100
6. Mission Statement = “Our mission at American Family Insurance is to be the most trusted and valued customer-driven insurance company.”
7. Vision = “To maximize customer value through industry-leading service, exceptional claims experiences and products that build long-term relationships.”
8. Values = Caring, Ease & Convenience, Fairness, and Helpfulness
9. Problems with the department = Lack of Training for all Managers, Lack of ongoing training, no consistency (all managers will give you different answers), Lack of team players, People only there for a paycheck, Lack of compassion from superiors, Extremely short staffed, Lack of Recognition, Lack of communication, Low employee morale, Employees only know the people on their immediate teams and maybe a few others, Most employees were forced to move to AZ if they wanted to keep their job because AmFam shut down numerous claims offices around the US causing hostile employees who hate living here and most of their family is in the mid-west.

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For this assignment, you will research servant leadership and apply it to your current or a previous work environment in a paper (8-10 pages). You must use at least eight scholarly references to support your writing.

When writing your paper, you should address the following:
1) Analyze the concept of servant leadership.
2) Compare and contrast servant leadership with at least two other models of leadership.
3) Describe the organization (e.g., industry, number of employees, vision, goals).
4) Describe how servant leadership can be applied to your organization.
5) Explain how implementing servant leadership would impact the ability of the organization to realize its vision and accomplish its goals.
6) Explain how you might go about implementing servant leadership within your organization or within a specific part of the organization if you were the leader.
7) Identify the following (relating to implementing servant leadership within your organization): (a) Stakeholders who would be advocates or supporters. (b)Potential challenges or obstacles and how you would overcome them.

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INFORMATION TO ASSIST IN WRITING THIS PAPER

1. Organization = American Family Insurance
2. I worked at the call center in Phoenix, Arizona
3. Position I held = Investigating Claims Adjuster (I have attached a copy of my Job Description)
4. Total Number of Employees = “American Family Insurance contracts with nearly 3,500 independent contractor agents and employs about 7,500 people in a variety of professional areas, including: actuarial, brokerage, claims, communications, education, government affairs, human resources, information services, investments, legal, marketing, office administration, product design and underwriting.”
5. Estimated Number of Employees in my department – AZ Claims Office = 100
6. Mission Statement = “Our mission at American Family Insurance is to be the most trusted and valued customer-driven insurance company.”
7. Vision = “To maximize customer value through industry-leading service, exceptional claims experiences and products that build long-term relationships.”
8. Values = Caring, Ease & Convenience, Fairness, and Helpfulness
9. Problems with the department = Lack of Training for all Managers, Lack of ongoing training, no consistency (all managers will give you different answers), Lack of team players, People only there for a paycheck, Lack of compassion from superiors, Extremely short staffed, Lack of Recognition, Lack of communication, Low employee morale, Employees only know the people on their immediate teams and maybe a few others, Most employees were forced to move to AZ if they wanted to keep their job because AmFam shut down numerous claims offices around the US causing hostile employees who hate living here and most of their family is in the mid-west.

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Must persuade the reader to raise the legal drinking age. Must have at least five rhetorical devices. Must employ persuasive appeals of logic, credibility and emotion.

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