Assignment: Comprehensive Decision-Making Paper
Length: 7-10 pages.
Select a publicly held manufacturing company. For this company, complete a balanced scorecard that includes metrics from each of the following modules:
1. Pricing Decisions and Customer profitability: Select a gross margin percentage for your company and a pricing strategy. Justify your strategy.
2. Support Department Cost Allocation: Provide two departments that require tracking and present the target cost for those departments as a percentage of sales in total. Provide your selected percentage and rationale.
3. Allocation of Joint Products and Byproducts: Indicate a potential byproduct that is realizable from your company's operations. Express the total cost of the byproduct as a percentage of sales. Justify your selection.
4. Spoilage, Rework, and Scrap: Indicate the expected percentage level of spoilage and rework for the company as a percentage of sales. Justify your selection.
5. Quality Analysis: Develop a target of quality acceptance that is justified based on requirement 4. Justify your selection.
6. Balanced Scorecard: Provide a learning and growth metric of your choice for the scorecard. Justify your selection.
7. Inventory Management: Presume you will implement JIT. Project the decrease in percentage of inventory investment that will be realized. Justify your selection.
8. Management Control Systems, Performance Measurement: Include two of the following management performance metrics: return on investment, residual income, and Economic Value Added®. Justify your selection.
Present your scorecard in a supporting table. Include an executive summary of one page and your justification of each selection. Include an operational approach that would represent a primary initiative to achieving the expected level of performance.
Your paper should meet the following requirements:
• 7-10 pages in length including supporting tables.
• Formatted according to CSU-Global Guide to Writing and APA Requirements.
• Include at least four outside sources in addition to your textbook. The CSU-Global Library is a good place to locate these sources.