You have just been hired at ABC Manufacturing, and your supervisor has invited you to sit in on today’s budget meeting. You are given a copy of the following proposed budget for next year to review. The budget is being used by ABC to plan for next year. Your supervisor tells you right before the meeting,

• You have almost completed English Composition I; take a moment to congratulate yourself! In as much as reflection is a genre, it is also one of the most important actions of the writing process. Writing a reflection does not mean that you focus only on what you would have changed or what you may have failed at doing; instead, a reflection should be a holistic assessment of an experience so that you can apply those lessons to the next experience.

You have written two essays for this course. Please reflect upon your experience in English Composition I by addressing the following questions. You do not have to address all of them or address them in order. Your reflection must be at least 200 words in length.

• What was your most successful essay in this course? You may want to judge that based upon your instructor’s assessment, but it would be more beneficial for you to base this upon what you feel is your best work. What was it that made this essay so successful for you?
• What kinds of elements do you consider when thinking about what makes a successful essay? After listing some of those attributes, how does your most successful essay match up with these elements? In what ways does it fall short?
• What would you have done differently when writing the essay you deemed less successful than the other? In thinking about what you would have changed, did you really have the opportunity to make that change at the time? Why, or why not?
• What have you learned about the writing process? Are you able to more clearly recognize or define your own writing process?

1. Management application in accounting

The Budget Case

Journal objective: This case is designed to evaluate the budget process at a large manufacturing company.

The learning objectives of this case study are as follows:

1. Use the budget to make decisions.
2. Identify how budgeting is used by leadership for planning and control.
3. Discuss ethical considerations in the budget process.

You have just been hired at ABC Manufacturing, and your supervisor has invited you to sit in on today’s budget meeting. You are given a copy of the following proposed budget for next year to review. The budget is being used by ABC to plan for next year. Your supervisor tells you right before the meeting, “We always overestimate because the president always makes us cut the budget by 20%, and besides, I really want to go to that conference in Las Vegas next year.” He continued,” I have really worked hard this year and put in a lot of overtime so I deserve it.”

Length: Prepare a one- to two-page written report (page length does not include the title slide and references).

References: A minimum of 2 peer-reviewed references are required, any additional resources used are required to be scholarly/academic in nature and found in the CSU Library. APA formatting is required be used for citations and references. Use this definition to define the term in the instructions.

Definitions: Scholarly journals are sometimes called academic journals. The terms are often used interchangeably to describe the same type of publication. These types of publications are published by universities, academic institutions, professional associations, and commercial enterprises and are compiled by scholars, academics, and other subject authorities.

Details: In your report, address the following:

1. Discuss if you think ABC Manufacturing is properly using the budget process to plan for next year’s expenses.
2. Discuss the comment about the president cutting the budget each year in terms of proper leadership and control?
3. Discuss the ethical issues related to inflating the budget.

Submission: Save the submission as a Word document and upload the document to Blackboard.