Complete the Strategic Analysis assignment which focuses on the cost behavior, decision-making, and the balanced scorecard.Your studies this week focus on cost behavior, decision making, and performance analysis using the balanced scorecard. In this assignment, you will apply these concepts to hypothetical business situations.Complete Parts I and II.Part I. Decision MakingIn the reading this week, you’ve learned about a variety of management decisions including:Make vs. buy (outsourcing)Accepting a special orderSell as-is or process furtherKeep or discontinue a product or operating segmentProduct mix when there are capacity constraintsKeep or drop an existing customerPart I Requirements:Select two of the decision types listed above. For each selected decision type:Create a hypothetical situation in which management is faced with this decision type.Explain the circumstances including both quantitative and qualitative factors which will be considered.Evaluate relevant costs including differential costs, avoidable costs, and opportunity costs.Identify irrelevant costs including sunk costs and fixed costs.Recommend the most appropriate decision for management based on your analysis.Part I of your assignment should be two to three pages and should include at least one scholarly resource outside of the textbook.Part II. Balanced ScorecardSelect one of the industries listed below:ManufacturingTechnologyConstructionHealthcareTransportationHospitalityRetailChoose a company (real or hypothetical) within the selected industry to use for this part of the assignment.Part II RequirementsProvide a brief overview of the company that you’ve chosen including the industry, core operations, location, and estimated number of employees.For each balanced scorecard perspective: 1) Financial perspective; 2) Customer perspective; 3) Internal-Business-Process perspective; and 4) Learning-and-Growth perspective, identify a minimum of eight metrics that the company might use to evaluate performance. For each perspective, explain why you’ve chosen the eight metrics and how they will enable management to better understand the operational and financial performance of the business.Part II should be two to three pages and should include at least one scholarly resource outside of the textbook.The Week 6 Business Perspective paperMust be two to three double-spaced pages in length (not including title and references pages) and formatted according to APA Style as outlined in the Ashford Writing Center’s APA Style (Links to an external site.) resource.Must include a separate title page with the following:Title of paperStudent’s nameCourse name and numberInstructor’s nameDate submittedFor further assistance with the formatting and the title page, refer to APA Formatting for Word 2013 (Links to an external site.).Must use at least one scholarly source in addition to the course text.The Scholarly, Peer-Reviewed, and Other Credible Sources (Links to an external site.) table offers additional guidance on appropriate source types. If you have questions about whether a specific source is appropriate for this assignment, please contact your instructor. Your instructor has the final say about the appropriateness of a specific source for a particular assignment.Must document any information used from sources in APA Style as outlined in the Ashford Writing Center’s APA: Citing Within Your Paper (Links to an external site.) guide.Must include a separate references page that is formatted according to APA Style as outlined in the Ashford Writing Center. See the APA: Formatting Your References List (Links to an external site.) resource in the Ashford Writing Center for specifications.

Prior to beginning work on this assignment, read Chapter 4 of your textbook, including the Brief Case “Cost of Living” at the end of Chapter 4 on page 143 and access the Numbeo Northern America: Current Cost of Living Index by City (numbeo.com) (Links to an external site.) In this assignment, you will be analyzing the Cost of Living Index and the Groceries Index for seven U.S. cities and creating a scatterplot to identify the relationships between the variables.  You may choose any seven U.S. cities you wish. Go to the Numbeo Northern America: Current Cost of Living Index by City (numbeo.com) (Links to an external site.)  and then follow directions below to get started: Identify seven cities and note the “Cost of Living Index” value and the “Groceries Index” value. Develop a table with three columns: City Groceries Index (independent variable) Cost of Living Index (dependent variable) Complete one row for column titles (City name, Groceries Index, and Cost of Living Index) and seven rows that show the city name, Groceries Index and the Cost of Living index. In your Excel spreadsheet or tool of your choosing you will have developed a table with three columns, one row for titles, and seven rows containing data for each city you selected. In Excel or the software of your choosing:  Insert or draw a scatterplot of the selected data set. Display the regression line (also called the trend line, linear model, or line of best fit). In Excel click anywhere in the scatterplot.  Click on the plus sign and at the bottom of Chart Elements select “Trend line.” Display the equation for the trend line and R2 value on the graph. In Excel right click on the trend line.  View the options on the right of the chart under “Format Trendline” and scroll to the bottom to select the boxes for display equation on chart and display R-squared on chart options. In your paper: Cite the URL and complete an APA reference for the URL. Provide the table with your data and your spreadsheet of the graph with the equation and R2 Analyze your findings of the best and worst cities that predict the relationship between the Groceries Index and Cost of Living Index. Assess the relationship between the Groceries Index and Cost of Living Index in the cities you studied. The assignment Must include a separate title page with the following: Title of paper in bold font Space should appear between the title and the rest of the information on the title page. Student’s name Name of institution  Course name and number Instructor’s name Due date Must utilize academic voice.  Textbook Reference  Sharpe, N. D., De Veaux, R. D., & Velleman, P. F. (2019). Business statistics (4th ed.). Retrieved from https://www.redshelf.com