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Individual Case Project

Individual Case:

Each student is required to submit an individual case study; this assignment will be given in two parts. The first part of this assignment will be to identify a recent (within the last 3 years) business article (i.e. Wall Street Journal, BusinessWeek, Strategic Finance, Harvard Business Review, Sloan Management Review, New York Times and/or comparable business source) that discusses a managerial accounting concept. Your article should be submitted via pdf file to the blackboard by week 4 by Thursday, January 29th @ 11:59 pm; this part of the assignment is worth 10 points. I will approve or ask you to find another article that meets the criteria. The second part of the assignment (i.e., the case article write-up) is due week 8. You are required to submit the individual case paper in Microsoft Word by Thursday, February 26th @ 11:59 pm via the Turnitin link in Wk 8 of Blackboard only; this part of the assignment is worth 90 points The purpose of this assignment is for you to think about current issues and relate managerial accounting topics to those issues. More details will be provided later.

· Paper must be 2 complete pages single-spaced

· Font – 12-point (Times New Roman – Microsoft Word); APA Format for References – identify your references (if you don’t it is plagiarism)

· It should be based on a Managerial Accounting Concept that has been (or will be discussed in the course – any topic from your text) from a credible business source (e.g., CFO .com, Businessweek; Sloan Mgmt Review; Harvard Business Review, NY Times , Forbes). If you are unsure how to find an article, go the library and ask the business reference librarian to assist you.

· Summarize the article (i.e., 1st paragraph -Provide your summary of the article in the first paragraph – do not copy the executive summary; 2nd Paragraph - write a critique (i.e., analyze and discuss the argument(s) of the paper – you must defend why you agree or disagree with the argument and use facts to support your position); 3rd Paragraph - express how you can apply the concepts for decision making in your life, career and/or other endeavors.

· Due Thursday, February 26th @ 11:59 pm

· Put your name, student # and the section (e.g., 001, 002, 900) in the heading that should show up on each page

· Provide a hyperlink to the article

· No late submissions; no exceptions – articles can only be submitted via the Turnitin Link in Blackboard in the week 8 folder