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HOLMES INSTITUTE FACULTY OF HIGHER EDUCATION Assessment Details and Submission Guidelines Trimester T1 2020 Unit Code HI5017 Unit Title Managerial Accounting Assessment Type Assignment Assessment Title Individual Assignment Purpose of the assessment (with ULO Mapping) Students are required to develop their understanding of the purpose and use of management accounting systems, and its usefulness in aiding managers make informed decisions. You are to critically evaluate the literature (using journal articles) to analyse the practical use of management accounting systems by contemporary companies, in terms of their relevance to the decision-making by managers and achievement of business goals (ULO 1,2,3,4) Weight 30% of the total assessments Total Marks 30 Word limit Not more than 3,000 words. Please use “word count” and include in assignment. Due Date Week 9 Sunday the 31st May at 11.59 p.m. Submission Guidelines • All work must be submitted on Blackboard by the due date along with a completed Assignment Cover Page. • The assignment must be in MS Word format, no spacing, 12-pt Arial font and 2 cm margins on all four sides of your page with appropriate section headings and page numbers. • Reference sources must be cited in the text of the report, and listed appropriately at the end in a reference list using Harvard referencing style. • It is the responsibility of the student who is submitting the work, to ensure that the work is in fact her/his own work. Incorporating another’s work or ideas into one’s own work without appropriate acknowledgement is an academic offence. Students should submit all assignments for plagiarism checking on Blackboard before final submission in the subject. For further details, please refer to the Unit Outline and Student Handbook. Page 2 of 6 HI5017 MANAGERIAL ACCOUNTING INDIVIDUAL ASSIGNMENT T1 2020 HI5017 MANAGERIAL ACCOUNTING INDIVIDUAL ASSIGNMENT T1 2020 Individual Assignment Specifications Purpose: This assignment aims at developing your understanding of the purpose and use of management accounting systems, and its usefulness in aiding managers make informed decisions. You are to critically evaluate the literature (using journal articles) to analyse the practical use of management accounting systems by contemporary companies, in terms of their relevance to the decision-making by managers and achievement of business goals. Assignment Task: Journal Article Critique (30 Marks) You are required to conduct a literature search and discussion in this assignment. You are to choose a peer reviewed journal article (from any country) on the: -Use of Budgeting as a management technique for managing resources. The article should be published between 2010 – 2020. Choose your article only after you have accessed several relevant articles, and then choose the best articles that will answer the assignment question below. Required: Critically evaluate the relevance and challenges of budgeting systems by answering the 5 questions below: Questions: 1. Briefly discuss the budgeting process. (5 marks) 2. Based on your selected journal article, discuss citing examples whether the budgeting process satisfies the purpose of planning, controlling and evaluating performance. (5 marks) 3. The two widely used practices in preparing budgets are ‘top down’ budgeting and ‘bottom up’ budgeting. Identify and explain the practice adopted by the organisation discussed in your selected journal article and further explain the behavioural implications of adopted practice. (5 marks) 4. Based on your literature findings (above), critically evaluate the comment that ‘traditional budgeting practices are constraint on creativity, and the time and energy spent on budget formulation is better spent elsewhere’. 5. Based on your literature findings (above), would you recommend budgeting for contemporary organisations for planning and control purpose? Explain (5 marks) Additional Information: a) You are encouraged to choose the journal article from the following Accounting and Management Accounting Journals: Accounting, Auditing and Accountability Journal; https://search.proquest.com/business/publication/publications_31671?accountid=30552 https://search.proquest.com/business/publication/publications_31671?accountid=30552 Page 3 of 6 HI5017 MANAGERIAL ACCOUNTING INDIVIDUAL ASSIGNMENT T1 2020 Journal of Management Accounting Research Journal of Applied Management Accounting Research b) You can access these journals in ProQuest Database by clicking on the above links. Log in details for ProQuest are - Username: Holmes2004; Password: Holmes. These journals can also be accessed via the ProQuest Database link available via the Student Login page in the Holmes website. You can also use Google Scholar. Don’t use Google. c) No student can choose the same article as another student from the same class, else both students may receive a zero mark, at the Lecturer’s discretion. d) The journal article must be uploaded (as a separate PDF file) together with your assignment (as a MS WORD file format) in Blackboard under the folder . 5 marks will be deducted if you do not submit the articles with your assignment. Assignment Structure: The report should include the following components: a. Assignment cover page clearly stating your name and student number b. Abstract (one paragraph) c. Table of contents d. A brief introduction or overview of what the report is about. e. Body of the assignment with appropriate section headings f. Conclusion g. List of References. Marking Criteria Marking Criteria Weighting Journal Article Critique 1. Briefly discuss the purposes of budgeting process. (5 marks) 5% 2. Based on your selected journal article, discuss citing examples whether the budgeting process satisfies the purpose of planning, controlling and evaluating performance. (5 marks) 5% 3. The two widely used practices in preparing budgets are ‘top down’ budgeting and ‘bottom up’ budgeting. Identify and explain the practice adopted by the organisation discussed in your selected journal article and further explain the behavioural implications of adopted practice. (5 marks) 5% 4. Based on your literature findings (above), critically evaluate the comment that ‘traditional budgeting practices are constraint on creativity, and the time and energy spent on budget formulation is better spent elsewhere’. (5 marks) 5% 5. Based on your literature findings (above), would you recommend the use of budgeting for contemporary organisations for planning and control purpose? Explain (5 marks) 5% Overall Presentation of Assignment 5% TOTAL Weight 30% https://search.proquest.com/business/publication/31820/citation/6A92B992C7C74BC4PQ/3?accountid=30552 https://search.proquest.com/business/publication/31820/citation/6A92B992C7C74BC4PQ/3?accountid=30552 https://search.proquest.com/business/publication/publications_40108?accountid=30552 https://search.proquest.com/business/publication/publications_40108?accountid=30552 Page 4 of 6 HI5017 MANAGERIAL ACCOUNTING INDIVIDUAL ASSIGNMENT T1 2020 Marking Rubric Excellent Very Good Good Satisfactory Unsatisfactory Journal Article Critique Briefly discuss the purposes of budgeting process (5 marks) (4.1 - 5 marks) Present an excellent discussion of the purposes of budgeting process. (3.6 - 4 marks) Present a very good discussion of the features of budgeting process. (3.1 - 3.5 marks) Present a good discussion of the features of budgeting process. (2.1 – 3 marks) Present a reasonable discussion of the features of budgeting process. (0 - 2 marks) Unable to explain the features of budgeting process. Based on your selected journal article, discuss citing examples whether the budgeting process satisfies the purpose of planning, controlling and evaluating performance. (5 marks) (4.1 - 5 marks) Present an excellent discussion of the relevance of budgeting process as a planning, control and evaluation system, with examples provided from the organisation discussed in the selected journal article (3.6 - 4 marks) Present a very good discussion of the relevance of budgeting process as a planning, control and evaluation system, with examples provided from the organisation discussed in the selected journal (3.1 - 3.5 marks) Present a good discussion of the relevance of budgeting process as a planning, control and evaluation system, with examples provided from the organisation discussed in the selected journal (2.1 - 3 marks) Present a reasonable discussion of the relevance of budgeting process as a planning, control and evaluation system, with examples provided from the organisation discussed in the selected journal company. (0 - 2 marks) Unable to explain the relevance of budgeting process as a planning, control and evaluation system, with examples provided from the organisation discussed in the selected journal The two widely used practices in preparing budgets are ‘top down’ budgeting and ‘bottom up’ budgeting. Identify and explain the practice adopted by the organisation discussed in your selected journal article and
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Running Head: HI5017 — MANAGERIAL ACCOUNTING    1
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HI5017 — MANAGERIAL ACCOUNTING
NAME AND STUDENT NUMBER: ____________________
Abstract
The report has been done on the concept of the budgeting and its implications in the respective organisations. The report highlights the various norms and the considerations it will be taken into for the purpose of the work. The features had given a proper alignment for the whole study.
Table of Contents
Abstract    2
Introduction    4
Answer to Question 1    4
Answ
er to Question 2    5
Answer to Question 3    6
Answer to Question 4    8
Answer to Question 5    9
Conclusion    10
References    12
Introduction
    The report is based on the one of the most vital part of the organisation is the concept of the budgeting. The main purpose for choosing this topic as a part of the discussion is to identify its relevance and challenges in the current scenario. The topic is being broken into various parts. A better explanation will be provided for each of thing demanded from the paper. First, the concept and the discussion of the budgeting processes have been there.
In the next part of the report, how this budgeting has been interrelated and regulated with the purpose of the controlling, planning and performance management will be given in details. The report will be further identifying the adoptions, which has been required by the organisations. The behavioural implications of the adoption will be discussed well. Additionally, an answer would be given, how the budgeting will reflect on creativity and formulation along with a suitable conclusion.
Answer to Question 1    
As already discussed in the previous stanza, the term budgeting is the most significant for the organisations. It has its purpose of its own. The purpose of budgeting process is to provide a model of how the businesses might perform for the organisations. The model many have been carried out for the purposes of the financial aspects (Gachoka, Aduda, Kaijage & Okiro, 2018). The purpose of the budgeting helps in the determination of the strategies, events plans of a particular project. The interactive and the diagnostic budgeting have been taken into view. For example, in Czech Firms, construction of the business plan, a manager attempts to forecast income and expenditure and calculate its profitability in a yearly basis.
    To accomplish purposes, the Interactive budgeting process aims in attaining of several objectives (Cuganesan, 2017). First, it helps in the prognostication of the firm’s sales of the future and looking in to the matters of the cost of production and other expenses of the firm. This will help to have the calculations and the earnings of the desired income. It will also help in the minimising the possibility of the losses of the business. The budgeting processes helps in keeping a note of the export and the import facilities, revenues and the terms of the investments.
The Diagnostic budgeting process, which has been followed by the Czech Firms, is firstly setting of the realistic goals. These goals will be used for the making of the smart spending choices. Next is the identification of the income and the expenses, which has been done in a yearly wise manner. The income and the expenses have been related to the production and the manufacturing processes. This purpose of the processes of the budgeting is also used for the designing of the budget. The processes have also led to the putting of the plan in the actions.
Answer to Question 2
    Based on the journal article, it be said that the process of the budgeting satisfies the purpose of the planning. It has been done through the mechanism theories. The citing examples, which can be given for this is that, in Czech Firms involves the future profitability as the earning a reasonable return is used as a primary company objectives. The company, at first, devises methods to deal with the uncertainty of the future. The purpose of budgeting has led to the chalking out of the plans in order to meet the crisis, which the company has been faced previously (Pousthomis et al., 2017). For example, cost of power, falls suddenly, which has been suddenly adjusted by lowering of the budgets.
    The different concepts of the Budgeting of the Czech firms such as the interactive and the diagnostic aimed at encouraging the dialogue and leaning and used for the product innovations. This has been done in a systematic way and with the use of the contingency theory in order for the development of hypothesis. The budgeting processes have been done with the partial settlement of the empirical survey of the data and through the interactive usages of the data. This planning has involved the frequency budget preparation, which is used for the contingency factors such as the perceived environmental uncertainly and strategies.
    The purpose of thee budgeting processes helps in the controlling of the Czech firms by facilitating the interactive use of the budgets concerned. This can be fruitful enough for the controlling of the strategic change, esurient of the liquidity or through the identification and analysing of the sales trends. Interactive budgeting processes use the timely data and they are used for the facilitations of the discussion where the information of the company has been truly shared (Popesko, Dokulil & Hrabec, 2017). The...
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