CompetenciesIn this project, you will demonstrate your mastery of the following competencies:Describe how managerial accounting supports management information systemsUtilize managerial accounting techniques and models to support an organization’s strategic planExplain how managerial accounting is used to make decisions about short-term business opportunities, capital investments, and evaluating operational performanceScenarioYour business has been open for a month, and you have prepared an income statement and completed a variance analysis on the data. Now you will meet with investors and a few other internal stakeholders to share your company’s progress over the past month and how it has performed with respect to your cost and budget projections. The investors would like to see the thought process behind your financial strategy and how your company has performed in its first month. They have therefore asked you to present a report that includes the costing and income data from your Project Workbook.DirectionsSubmit a detailed report to your potential investors and other stakeholders to explain and defend your costing strategies and to share your business’s performance to date. Your report can be in the form of a PowerPoint presentation or a Word document (based on the templates provided in the What to Submit section). In either format, be sure to effectively communicate with your stakeholders by breaking down concepts and using investor-friendly language to build their trust and confidence. If you choose to do a PowerPoint presentation, you’ll need to include speaker notes for each slide.Introduction: Provide a short overview of your company and the purpose of this report. Business Overview: Name your company and describe its business and your vision for its future.Purpose of the Report: Explain the purpose of the report and describe why the information is important.Methods and Approach: Explain the management accounting methods you used for generating the information that you are about to share in terms of your adherence to industry standards and the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA) code of ethics.Financial Strategy: Review your original business plan and costing strategies.Costing System: Justify the use of job order costing for this business. Be sure to compare and contrast the various costing systems you learned about in this course as part of your defense.Selling Prices: Share and explain the selling prices you established for each of your products. Be sure to reference your cost-volume-profit analysis in your defense.Contribution Margin: Share and explain your contribution margin per unit. Be sure to reference your cost-volume-profit analysis in your defense.Target Profits: Identify your break-even points for achieving different target profits. Then explain the target profits you selected for each area of your business. Be sure to reference your cost-volume-profit analysis in your defense.Financial Statements: Using the information in the Milestone Two Market Research Data Appendix, assess your financial performance to date.Statement of Cost of Goods Sold: Share the statement of cost of goods sold and logically interpret the business’s performance against the provided benchmarks.Income Statement: Share the income statement and logically interpret the business’s performance against the provided benchmarks.Variances: Illustrate all variances for the direct labor time and the materials price.Significance of Variances: Evaluate the significance of the variances in terms of the potential to impact future budgeting decisions and planning.What to SubmitTo complete this project, you must submit the following:PowerPoint Template: Investor ReportUse this template to submit a PowerPoint presentation with speaker notes. Sources should be cited according to APA style.ORWord Template: Investor ReportUse this template to submit an 8- to 10-page Word document. Sources should be cited according to APA style.Supporting MaterialsThe following resource(s) may help support your work on the project:Tutorials: PowerPoint Office 365This set of tutorials from Infobase provides helpful information on the basic features of Microsoft PowerPoint. Use the table of contents to select the tutorials that best suit your needs.

To begin, go to the Week 6 Final Assignment and read it all the way through. The Organizational Change Intervention Proposal is the culmination of what you will learn in this course. You will be working toward finalizing this assignment every week. This week you will select a company that needs change intervention and draft a 1 page overview of the company, and include the resources used to compile the overview. Search for a company that you have read about either in the newspaper or online that you feel should undergo an organizational transformation (Examples: Apple, Bank of America, Wal-Mart, Comcast, Chevy, Wachovia Bank, Aetna, etc.). You will research the organization and propose a change intervention later in this course. This process will help you to understand how the organizational change process works. The University of the Rockies library is a good place to start researching. Keep track of your resources as you collect them. You will be required to assemble an annotated bibliography as part of the final assignment submission. Review the assignment rubric for grading criteria of the deliverables for this week.This week you will submit the following:Point Value: 10 PointsWeekly Learning Outcome Alignment: 1, 2Course Learning Outcome Alignment: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6Carefully review the Grading Rubric (Links to an external site.) for the criteria that will be used to evaluate your assignment.

Real property, personal property, and intellectual property laws each contain unique legal requirements. For this activity, select one of these areas to research. Find a recent example (within the past five years) that illustrates the impact of these laws on either consumers or businesses. For example, you may wish to discuss current litigation arising from a homeowner’s real estate transaction. Alternatively, you may wish to focus on a story involving a corporate intellectual property dispute.Initial PostExplain your chosen story or news article. How are the materials relevant to either real property, personal property, or intellectual property laws?Reply PostRespond to at least one classmate’s post. What are your impressions and thoughts regarding the information? What legal issues or points do you recognize in this content?Please remember to acknowledge any source you use.ResourcesSuggested Library Databases:Fastcase (legal research)Fastcase helpDiscovery (articles and eBooks)