Discussions Assignment

Subject: StrategicManagement

Discussion Question

Panera Bread operates more than 1,600 bakery-cafés in 44 states and Canada. How many of the four tests of the competitive power of a resource does the store network pass? Explain your answer.

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Subject: Managerial Accounting

Discussion Question 1

What limits the usefulness to managers of fixed budget performance reports? How can these limits be overcome?

Discussion Question 2

Explain the importance of departmental income statement in an enterprise in which several separate departments function. Provide an example of a departmental income statement in which at least three shared indirect costs are divided according to three different appropriate allocation bases.

Provide a departmental return on investment analysis based on the template given in Exhibit 9-17 of the textbook.

Note: 2 References must