Strategic Management Accounting assignment - suggested report structure

Some Strategic Management Accounting (SMA) students ask me to offer a suggested report structure for the SMA assignment: [September 2013]


Essay title

Table of contents

1. Introduction ["Introduction" section of the assignment essay is to briefly explain your essay purposes and what you intend to talk about; thus it is very brief.]
2. Background of the company under review
2.1 Scope of businesses for the company as a whole
2.2 The external environment facing the company
2.3 Company vision and mission
2.4 A SWOT review of the Strategic Business Unit (SBU) under review; also see: http://www.slideshare.net/joh5700/vision-mission-goals-and-objectives-whats-the-difference
2.5 An examination of the business strategy of the SBU under review and its sources of sustainable competitive advantage
3. Formulation of the Balanced Scorecard for the SBU under review, with business and theoretical justifications
4. Formulation of the Strategy map based on the proposed SBU balanced scorecard, with business and theoretical justifications
5. A discussion of the interface of the proposed Balanced Scorecard with the company's Management Accounting/ Performance management function
[Interface is about: coordination; communication; streamling of process; distribution of tasks and responsibilities, etc, to achieve holistic performance improvement]
6. A discussion of the considerations and impacts as related to the implementation of the proposed Balanced Scorecard to the SBU under review as well as to the company as a whole
[Implementation is about: change management; stress and tension arising from change; resistance to change; and a project to computerise BSC, etc.]
7. Conclusions
References
Appendix


In my estimate: % distribution of content is, roughly:

Section 1. 2%
Section 2. 26%
Section 3. 25%
Section 4. 20%
Section 5. 14%
Section 6. 11%
section 7. 2%






Reference
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