Assignment workshop: drafting, feedback and improvement

This week’s topics

Assignment workshop: drafting, feedback and improvement

1. Drafting against the criteria
2. Tutor and peer feedback
3. Improving the final submission

What you will be able to do

• 1.1 Analyse the importance of performance measurement to organisations.
• 1.2 Explain the main functions of performance measurement systems.
• 1.3 Determine appropriate sources of information and data to carry out performance measurement.
• 1.4 Analyse external factors that impact on performance measurement.
• 2.1 Outline the systems and processes involved in performance analysis in for-profit organisations.
• 2.2 Outline the systems and processes involved in performance analysis in not-for-profit and the public sector.
• 2.3 Explain why divisional performance is measured in organisations.
• 3.1 Evaluate the usefulness of activity-based costing.
• 3.2 Assess how target costing and life-cycle costing are used by business organisations.
• 3.3 Evaluate the relationship between throughput and environmental accounting.
• 3.4 Explain the rationale for transfer pricing.
• 4.1 Explain why performance measurement is measured reported in organisations.
• 4.2 Evaluate the needs of different audiences when reporting performance.

Activity

Draft the assignment, get feedback and improve it before submission.

Study materials

Further resources

• Writing Guide, 3.5: Peer review and using feedback · PDF · OpenStax, textbook chapter; pp. 92–94 · for registered students
• Business Communication for Success, ch. 8: Feedback in the writing process · PDF · Saylor Academy, textbook chapter; pp. 290–322 · for registered students