Advanced Management Accounting Research Assignment-
Objectives - To provide each student the ability to:
- critically assess management accounting tools.
- accept that management accounting is a rapidly changing skill set.
- demonstrate investigative and research skills.
- refine writing skills.
- make written recommendations to management (board)
- critically challenge the recommendations of others.
Your main tasks - Choose one of the two topics from the list provided below for your research assignment.
The two topics represent some problems and difficulties in the management accounting field in today's business environment.
- Performance measurement and management
- Indirect cost allocation in product costing
Requirements - Select one of the above topics and research the following:
1. What are the problematic aspects/areas of your chosen topic.
2. Write a 'literature review' of the topic, that is, what the literature is saying about the topic (by way of researches done by different researches and writers).
3. Provide a critical analysis of your chosen topic.
4. Summarise the findings of the researches done on your topic.
Prepare your report in a professional, academic writing, manner/format. Demonstrate what you have researched and learned in a coherent fashion and communicate your ideas clearly. There are no 'ideal' or 'recommended solutions' to the topic areas you chose.
For this assignment you are free to make any assumptions which help you to display your knowledge. Obviously, these assumptions need to have the effective reinforcement of referenced research.
1. For this research essay, gather information from library databases or the Internet about your chosen topic so that you are able to prepare a 2,500 word (approximately) report.
2. Your report should summarise the findings from your research.
3. Your assignment must be in your own words. You are hereby reminded of the MIT Faculty of Business policies on cheating (in particular plagiarism). I would expect that you are able to reference your materials accurately. You are to use the APA Referencing Style.