Task C Discussion Criteria 2 – Communication and Structure (PC 3.1) Writing and referencing is concise and accurate. Report is of a professional standard and highly appropriate for the intended audience. All formatting requirements have been adhered to. Writing and referencing is concise and accurate. Report is of a good standard and appropriate for the intended audience. All formatting requirements have been adhered to. Writing and referencing is mostly concise and accurate. Report is of a reasonable professional standard and somewhat appropriate for the intended audience. All formatting requirements have been adhered to. Standard of writing and referencing is fair and mostly accurate. Some attempt at writing for the intended audience. Formatting requirements have been mostly adhered to. Inappropriate standard of writing and referencing. Little or no attempt to address the intended audience. Formatting requirements may not have been adhered to. /4

Task C Discussion Criteria 1. – Budgeting (PC 3.1) Demonstrates professionalism in the application of critical thinking framework to explore the issue and justify the recommendation. Choice of literature is highly appropriate and provides clear evidence in support of the recommendation. Solid application of critical thinking framework to explore the issue and justify the recommendation. Choice of literature is appropriate and provides some evidence in support of the recommendation. A reasonable attempt has been made to apply the critical thinking framework to explore the issue and justify the recommendation. Choice of literature is appropriate and provides some evidence in support of the recommendation. A cursory attempt has been made to apply the critical thinking framework to explore the issue and justify the recommendation. Choice of literature is adequate but the link to evidence in support of the recommendation is weak. Little or no attempt has been made to apply the critical thinking framework to the issue or recommendation. Choice of literature is inappropriate or reference is missing altogether. /8

Task A & B - Correct Use of Excel for Schedules (KS 1.2) Accurate and complete use of formulas. Clear structure and professional presentation. Accurate and mostly complete use of formulas. Clear structure and professional presentation. Accurate but limited use of formulas and unclear structure with reasonable presentation. Excel used without formulas. Limited or no use of Excel. /4

Task B - Correct Use of Excel Graph functions (KS 1.2) Graphs are accurate and appropriate for the data content. Graphs are presented professionally. Graphs are mostly accurate and appropriate for the data content. Graphs are presented professionally. Graphs are somewhat unclear although reasonably presentation. Graphs are unclear and/or unprofessionally presented. Graphs are incomplete or missing. /4

Task B - Flexible budget and variance calculations (KS 1.2) All schedules are completed with total accuracy. All required working is shown throughout. All schedules are completed with only minor errors. All required working is shown throughout. All schedules are completed with varying degrees of accuracy, some significant errors are evident. Most working is shown. All schedules are completed with varying degrees of accuracy, many significant errors are evident. Not all working is shown. Schedules are incomplete or missing and have major inaccuracies. Working is not shown or lacks significant detail. /3

Task A Decision making - Email to Management (HO 2.2) Thorough analysis of the issues related to the facts of the case, demonstrating a high level of judgement and reasoning skills Very good analysis of the issues related to the facts of the case, demonstrating very good judgement and reasoning skills Good analysis of the issues related to the facts of the case, demonstrating good judgement and problem solving skills. Rudimentary analysis of the issues related to the facts of the case, demonstrating fair judgement and problem solving skills. Unsatisfactory analysis of the issues related to the facts of the case, demonstrating limited judgement and problem solving skills. /4

TASK A: DECISION MAKING (Worth 7%) Task A Decision making - Calculations (KS 1.2) All calculations are completed with total accuracy. All required working is shown throughout. All calculations are completed with only minor errors. All required working is shown throughout. Calculations are completed with varying degrees of accuracy, some significant errors are evident. Most working is shown. Calculations are completed with varying degrees of accuracy, many significant errors are evident. Not all working is shown. Calculations are incomplete or missing and have major inaccuracies. Working is not shown or lacks significant detail. /3

• Figures in the schedules (1 and 2) can be entered and checked on Blackboard up to 3 times per student. It will indicate if your answer is correct or not. Zero marks will indicate that the answer is wrong. Research and referencing • Use in-text citations in your discussion in Task C. At the conclusion of your discussion and under the title “references”, give the source of the evidence, i.e. name of the author, year, title, and name of source. Please adhere to the APA or Harvard referencing style.

In addition to the tasks the partners of T&K Solutions have asked you to complete, they have indicated that there are a few issues you are not to include: • Use all data as given, including all the fixed overhead figures without trying to fine-tune those figures in any way. • The partners have stressed that your responses to the questions should be based only on the facts with which you have been provided. Do not go outside these facts.

• You are eligible for up to 4 additional marks for your workings in Excel. • To achieve all 4 marks you need to use formulas in your calculations. The formulas will need to refer to other cells in the worksheet that either contain the original values from the ‘Data’ worksheets or to formulas and calculations from a previous step. This means, every time the values in the data sheet are changed, the results are updated automatically. • To be clear, all worksheets are to be completed using formulas that draw values from the data provided. Cells should not contain numerical values, rather all values should obtained using an Excel formula.

Your submission has three parts. All parts must be submitted to Blackboard by the due date and time for a complete submission of this assessment item. Refer to the instructions on Blackboard under Assessment Item 2 regarding uploading of files. 1) Uploading of Files into Blackboard The following files must be uploaded into Blackboard: a) Email to Partners from Task A b) Excel file containing the completed Schedules from Task A & Task B c) Discussion Question from Task C Make sure you check your files once uploaded to ensure it is readable. No marks will be given for submissions where the file is corrupt and unreadable.