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ProjectAs part of the course you must do a project on a topic that you choose and produce a presentation for 10 minutes and a paper, of length less than four pages. The topic must relate to some management accounting issue and if possible to subjects that we cover in the course. Some suggestions as to how a topic can be chosen follows.Choose a firm or industry that you are interested in and study their cost structure, pricing strategy, growth options etc. Once you choose a topic you can do deeper research and focus on one or two specific areas to write a report.Two major topics that we will be covering are Activity Based Costing (ABC) and Economic Value Added (EVA). Two major consulting firms in these areas are: ABC/M Authority and Stern Stewart Co. The links to their web sites are in course home page. They have published numerous case studies and white papers. You can choose one of these two topics and choose one industry and read what they say about their implementation experiences. Make some calls to find out if what they claim is really true and write a report.I have also collected some article sets on different topics and kept them under project readings link. You can choose one set and write a report on those papers.General GuidelinesYour presentation should tell a listener something interesting about the topic. They have not read the papers that you have read and you will be providing a useful service if they pick up two or three insights from your presentation. Do present a lot of ratios, numbers etc., unless they are relevant. Use the first page articles in the Wall Street Journal as your model.Please tell me about your choice as soon as possible as I do not want any replication. The presentations should end on the last day of the class. If you choose a topic like ABC, you can present earlier and that will make the other students more receptive as they will not be forced to listen all presentations in one class. the written reports are due by the day of the final examination. |
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