Role: As the newly assigned Chief Financial Officer (CFO) of (choose ONE organisation):
a. SOBEY’s (Empire)
b. AIR CANADA
c. UBER
d. Amazon
You are drafting the year end report to the Chief Executive Officer (CEO). The organisation is running a study to track
and highlight the most significant long‐term risks and trends worldwide that are likely to affect the organisation with a
view to devising strategies to deal with those changes in the most effective way. With a view to assessing the accounting
input in these strategies, you were asked to identify financial or management accounting tools that could facilitate the
organisation in dealing with those risks and trends.
The report shall include four key parts.
1. The first part shall include a brief overview of the key long‐term risks and trends identified for the organisation that you chose. For each risk/trend you shall provide a justification for choosing it and comment on its importance to the organisation.
2. The second part shall include one page theoretical diagram for each risk/trend identified in 1) that fully and accurately reflects the associations, i.e. the financial or management tools identified, the channels through which they enable each organizational learning, and the desired outcome. You may decide the level of detail and type of information to enter the diagrams so long it is in one page per risk/trend identified. The diagrams should be part of your presentation to the CEO so they shall reflect the essence of your analysis for the particular organization as fully and accurately as possible.
3. The third part of the report shall include a summary of all key points emanating from each diagram
of part 2.
4. The forth and final part of the report shall conclude the analysis and provide the CEO founded recommendations for the way forward.
Electronic file in pdf form shall be submitted.
The report should base on the materials that I provide, the reading of CMA only pages 3-14 are useful.