Reference no: EM133071327
Interpret core managerial finance concepts and data.
Analyze operational budget drivers and variances.
Interpret financial decision-making criteria.
Evaluate financing strategies for business operations.
Evaluate operational performance using analytic and comparative techniques.
Devise risk mitigation strategies in financial management.
Scenario
You are a department manager for a distribution team that packages and ships products from a warehouse location to fulfill customer orders. Your company has been acquired by a larger firm. The new owners are requesting that each department manager prepare a master budget for the upcoming year and submit it for approval. The submission must include a written justification of the requested amount and at least one risk mitigation action to control or reduce costs. The information available to meet this request includes:
The department's expenses, staffing, and output for the past 12 months;
Metrics, financial and operational, that can be used to compare the department's performance and output to a department that provides similar distribution support to another division of the company;
One potential efficiency project with two available financing options;
Data on the company's historic employee practices such as annual raises and bonuses; and
The level of output that the department must meet in the upcoming year based on the new owners' sales goals.