This Assignment has two parts.
Part 1: Our client has provided a budget presentation with supporting documentation. We are concerned that this work product has included misassumptions and common budgeting process mistakes. As a final project for the end of your first year with Thoreau Management Consulting, you will analyze and identify any risks and faulty assumptions. Create a report including a series of questions and a list of the faulty assumptions. Identify possible concerns, and then create questions to the client that will allow you to identify further areas of concern as well as better data for them to integrate before sharing their presentation with their stakeholders. Be sure to incorporate sufficient references from the resources in the course, as well as the Walden Library. This will comprise the first section of the template provided.
Part 2: You have worked for Thoreau Management Consulting for a year, and you are preparing for your first annual review. Consider the following and answer the questions below, incorporating them into the second portion of the template provided:
• Were you, as an analyst at Thoreau Management Consulting, successful in meeting your clients’ needs?
• What skills have you learned that will help you with your next consultancy engagement?
• How are you more marketable for having taken this course?
• How will you apply your deeper understanding of budgeting and resource allocation practices to effect positive social change?
Please follow the grading rubric for the assignment:
Analysis of Budget Presentation (Part 1)- provide a thorough and detailed analysis of the client’s budget presentation identifying misassumptions and common budgeting process mistakes as well as risks and faulty assumptions. Relevant sources and examples support thinking.
List of Questions, List of Faulty Assumptions (Part 1)- prepare a comprehensive list of questions and a list of the faulty assumptions. There are no errors or details missing.
Concerns and Follow-up Questions (Part 1) – provide a thorough and detailed analysis identifying possible concerns and creates questions to the client that will allow him/her to identify further areas of concern and better data for them to integrate before sharing presentation with stakeholders. Relevant sources and examples support thinking.
Preparing for First Annual Review (Part 2) – provide a thorough and detailed evaluation of whether he/she was successful in meeting his/her client’s needs and explains the skills he/she has learned that will help him/her with his/her next consultancy engagement. Relevant sources and examples support thinking.
Being Marketable (Part 2)- provide a thorough and detailed explanation of whether he/she is more marketable for having taken this course. There are no errors.
Positive Social Change (Part 2)- provide a thorough and detailed evaluation of how he/she will apply his/her deeper understanding of budgeting and resource allocation practices to effect positive social change. Relevant sources and examples support thinking.