Overview:
The assignment encourages students to acquire an understanding about importance of finance function in an organisation and fundamental concepts of budgetary techniques used for organisational planning, control, and decision making.
Description of task:
You are required to produce an essay on accounting and budgeting functions and their relationship with internal and external stakeholders of an organisation using a wide variety of research materials. You must show evidence of research by giving in-text-citations and a complete references list. It is an excellent practice to provide in-text citations after every 5 - 6 lines at level 0.
Essay Guidelines
An essay of approximately 1500 words that discusses the following:
Use a variety of research materials to produce an essay, where you are required to:
- Define and discuss the fundamental concept of budgeting and its role in organisational planning, control, and decision making.
- Define and discuss the finance function and its relationship with three other functions within the organisation such as Marketing, Production and Human Resources.
- Discuss how financial statements are used by the relevant stakeholders such as owners, managers, or other external parties e-g; Suppliers, Banks and HMRC.
The essay must include the following paragraphs
a) An introduction - ( 150 words )
The purpose, contents’ structure, and flow of the essay for reader
b) Discuss the concepts of budget and its use in planning, control and decision making ( 400 words )
- Define and briefly explain, what is budgeting?
- Discuss three different types of budgets.
- Briefly explain, how budgets are used for in planning, control and decision making?
c) Define and discuss the finance function and its relationship with three other functions within the organisation such as Marketing, Production and Human Resources ( 400 words )
- Define and briefly explain, what is finance function in an organisation?
- Discuss the relationship of finance function with marketing, production, and human resource management functions.
d) Discuss how financial statements are used by the relevant stakeholders such as owners, managers or other external parties e-g; Suppliers, Banks and HMRC ( 400 words )
- Explain how financial statements are used by owner, manager, supplier, HMRC etc
e) Conclusion - ( 150 words )
A suggested format would be to create one paragraph of approximately 400 words each, within the main body of the essay for each of the questions. The remaining 300 words should be used for the introduction and conclusion of the essay.
Cover Page - Must be the first page containing:
ü Student-ID number:
ü Module name:
ü Tutor name:
ü Campus:
ü Group:
Headings are allowed: It is strongly recommended to use template available on moodle.
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