Assignment task: Let's look at an example. For a college, one of the objectives is to prepare students for a successful career and a successful life. However, it takes years to determine whether a particular instructor has been successful in a specific course during a given year in regards to that long-term objective. However, it is possible to immediately measure the hours spent in a classroom, the student evaluations of the instructor, the extent to which the average grades given by the instructor deviate from the average of the college, and so on. The assumption is that if these things that are measured meet the desired standards, then the long-term objective will be met - though it may be very difficult to prove whether such is the case (Mhhe, 2011). This would constitute a very useful model of financial control. Do you have any examples of a successful measuring model in this case?