Assignment 1:

1.1: Max 500 words a) Importance of cost b) Describe principle form of costing for companies who use: --- Marginal, fully allocated, ABC, relevant c) Explain pros n corns of each 1.2: Max 300 words a) Design a costing system : marginal costing for a cartoon of 400 packaged airfreshners 1.3: Max 200 words a) Propose improvements to the costing and pricing systems: prepares fully allocated costing Of airfreshners

Assignment 2:
2.1: Max 600 words a) Apply forecasting techniques to make cost and revenue decision in an organization i) How will sales grow over the next 2 years, what will be margin, amount of interest and tax ii) How much cash will be left over except depreciation iii) How much they invest in new capital expenditure iv) Will they need funding? 2.2 Max 400 words a) Assess the source of funds available for a specific project i) Will the co. use more equity ii) Can they use more debt? iii) Where can they raise debt from? Bank or bonds? 3.1 Max 100 words a) Select appropriate budgetary targets for an organization i) Use one of the methods in assignment 1 consider what are realistic sales level for a Product: explain reasons

3.2 Max 100 words a) Participate in creation of master budget for an organization i) What master budget look like considering assignment 1 based on assumption about future sales. 3.3 Max 500 words a) Compare actual expenditure and income to the master budget of an organization i) Calculate the effect of changes to the sales level or fixed cost or variable cost ii) Show the variances e.g.: sales, cost of labour, raw materials cost, productivity assuming some actual results and why they have occurred 3.4 Max 300 words a) Evaluate budgetary monitoring process in an organization i) Consider the problems and completing pressures on those ii) How your company responds on those problems

Assignment 3:
4.1 Max word 600 a) Recommend processes that could manage cost reduction and how your company applies some of these techniques i) Cost driver analysis, supplier changes and tendering, customer consolidation, outsourcing, capital investment, Automation etc. 4.2 Max 400 words a) Evaluate activity-based costing using example of your company from assignment 1 i) Explain possible effects and benefits ii) Explain problems

Assignment 4:
5.1 Max 400 words a) Apply financial appraisal methods to analyze investment projects in public and private sector i) Explain payback, NPV, IRR using an example of new factory or call center or other major investment projects. Use two projects to compare later ii) Develop basic forecast of investment cost and cash flow over five years iii) What do forecast and investment cost look like? Give an example of your company to build a new plant in France or Slovenia 5.2 Max 300 words a) Justify strategic investment decision for an organization Using relevant financial information i) Analyze your proposed investment using above method and explain which is better? ii) Carry out and investment appraisal on the two projects 5.3 Max 300 words a) Report on appropriateness of a strategy investment decision using information from a post audit appraisal i) Explain meaning of post audit Appraisal ii) Show outcome of your projects differ if the actual outcomes different from the forecast and analyze what the results are especially sensitive to. iii) How would be the payback preiods, NPV, IRR of the projects Change if the actual results were 10% below forecast?

Assignment 5:
6.1 Max words 300 a) Analyze financial statement to assess financial viability of an organization. i) Consider the absolute changes in results for your choosen company eg: Sales, profits, Debt label working capital growing or sinking ii) Why is this happening and what are the commercial reasons behind the changes? iii) Your company trying to restructure and cut cost- how and is this producing to the desired results 6.2 Max words 400 a) Apply Financial Ratios to improve the quality of financial information in an organization of financial statements. i) Calculate profitability margins, gearing levels, Return on capital employed and Return on Equity. ii) Comment on the changes and their importance in the context of previous discussion iii) Example your companys financial ratios-low profitability, sensitivity to material cost 6.3 Max words 300 a) Recommendations on the strategic portfolio of an organization based on financial information i) Calculate performance of business segment- Product and Geography ii) Which are most successful areas? What are the t rends- should company continue with all existing products or reasons iii) Example your company has different product lines and geographic market and how do they compare?