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Look up the following references online or in your school’s library. Using the criteria and specific questions from the UMUC Web site referenced in the chapter, evaluate and discuss the quality of each reference. “Xelltec Reports Laptop Security Microchip.” Wireless News, 25 February 2011. Bollinger, M. “Implementing Internal Controls.” Strategic Finance, January 2011. Cascone, J., et al. “Equipped to Sustain.” Internal Auditor, December 2010. Johansmeyer, T. “Top 4 Small Business Accounting Software for 2008.” CPA Magazine, November 2008. Weisman, A., and M. Brodsky. “Fighting Fraud with Both Fists.” The CPA Journal, January 2011.

List three strategies for communicating with people for whom English is not their first language.

Assessment 1: Business Report
Weight: 25%
Due date: Monday 2 September, 10am (Week 6)
Length: 1,100 words (including in-text citations; excluding reference list)
Topics: Week 3 Lecture (Strategic) planning, management & decision-making
Submission type: Via Turnitin
Resources:
Writing a Business Report Prezi – click here to access
Harvard Referencing – click here to access
For “Recommended popular (non-academic business and management) publications” please scroll down this page to the “4) Business Report Research Guidelines” section that displays the list of articles with hyperlinks to each article.
Task Overview:
In the Report, students will perform an environmental analysis of an Australian organisation and provide recommendations for the organisation’s strategic direction(s).
Business Report Objectives
This assessment supports the development of knowledge of management theories and analytical and research skills.
This assessment expects students to:
Conduct independent research on the chosen Australian organisation
Apply a theoretical model to the studied organisation to analyse its internal and external environments and identify its challenges
Provide recommendations for the organisation’s strategic direction(s)
Business Report Task Description
Your client* (list below) is recalibrating its strategy and hired you, as an expert in strategic planning and management, to create a Business Report which will analyse the organisation’s task and general environments, identify the main challenges the organisation faces, and produce a set of recommendations for its strategy formulation.
Using Figure 3.1 in the Textbook (Kinicki et al., 2018) as a starting point, with the support of the subsequent research, you are expected to analyse the organisation’s external stakeholders and the forces which influence how these operate.
The
body
of your Business Report will consist of the three sections (see full information on the Business Report’s structure in the section “Business Report structure and tips”).
In the Environmental Analysissection (the section must start with the heading), you must answer the following analytical questions (consider turning these questions into appropriate sub-headings to structure your Business Report):
Which two external stakeholders in the task environment are
currently
most impactful for the organisation and why?
Which two general environment forces mostly influence the organisation
currently
and why?
In the Identified Challengessection (the section must start with the heading), you must build on the analysis from the previous Section to identify two mainchallenges that the organisation currently faces.
In the Recommendations section (the section must start with the heading), you must build on the analysis
from the previous two sections
to generate and justify a set of four recommendations for strategy formulation.
* You must choose one from the two companies provided below as your client:
Chemist Warehouse
Australian Reptile Park (the Central Coast, NSW)
To write your Business Report, you must conduct thorough research on your client using available internet sources (e.g., the company’s website, its social media profiles (e.g. Facebook, LinkedIn), the industry reports; and the media reports). Once you familiarise yourself with the organisation and its environment, perform the academic research on the company, its industry and its task and general environments, whatever available. Be mindful that there might be a limited or no academic research on a specific company but many peer-reviewed publications on a certain industry and some non-academic (business and management) publications on the company. The recommended sources are listed on the Leganto reading list on iLearn.
Your client uses your services because of your credibility as an expert. Therefore, your analysis must demonstrate and draw on your thorough academic and industry research.