在我国经济和社会发展中,()是国民经济的主导,它发挥着极其重要的作用。
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2017年8月6日下午,外交部长王毅在()出席中国——东盟外长会后举行中外媒体吹风会。王毅表示,今年是东盟成立50周年,明年将是中国——东盟建立战略伙伴关系15周年,中国与东盟的关系面临提质升级的重要机遇。
A. 菲律宾
B. 新加坡
C. 马来西亚
D. 韩国
对各国各类政党而言,有一个关键问题是能否在振兴本国经济的同时,兼顾周边国家乃至世界经济的共同发展,而不是以邻为壑、以牺牲他国利益为代价。从哲学角度看,这是因为()。
A. 联系具有普遍性,整个世界就是一个相互联系的有机整体
B. 任何联系都是具体的、现实的,而不是虚构的、抽象的
C. 整体居于主导地位,统率着部分,具有部分所不具备的功能
D. 联系是客观的,人对事物间的客观联系是无能为力的
十八届六中全会提出办好中国的事,关键在党要管党,从严治党。而党要管党、从严治党必须从()管起、严起。
A. 党内经济生活
B. 党内政治生活
C. 党内合作意识
D. 党员生活习惯
Herman Swan & Co (HS) is a family-owned company that has made fashionable clothes and leather goods for men for over 100 years. The company has been successful in building a strong reputation for quality by sourcing from local textile and leather producers. It sells its goods across the world through a chain of owned shops and also franchised stalls inside large, well-known stores. The company is still owned and run by the family with no other shareholders. The main goal of the firm is to organically grow the business for the next generation of the Swan family.
Customers are attracted to HS products due to the history and the family story that goes behind the products. They are willing to pay the high prices demanded as they identify with the values of the firm, especially the high quality of manufacturing.
The competition for HS has been increasing for more than ten years. It is made up of other global luxury brands and also the rising national champions in some of the rapidly expanding developing countries. The competitors often try to leverage their brands into many different product types. However, the Swan family have stated their desire to focus on the menswear market after an unsuccessful purchase of a handbag manufacturer five years ago.
The company is divided into a number of strategic business units (SBU). Each production site is an SBU, while the whole retail operation is one SBU. The head office previously functioned as a centre for procurement, finance and other support activities. The company has recently invested in a new management information system (MIS) that has increased the data available to all managers in the business. This has led to much of the procurement shifting to the production SBUs and the SBU managers taking more responsibility for budgeting. The SBU managers are delighted with their increased responsibilities and with the results from the new information system but feel there is still room for improvement in its use. The system has assisted in a project of flattening the organisation hierarchy by cutting out several layers of head office management.
You are the management accountant at HS and have been trying to persuade your boss, the finance director, that your role should change. You have read about Burns and Scapens’ report ‘Accounting Change Project’ and think that it suggests an interesting change from your current roles of preparing and reviewing budgets and overseeing the production of management and financial accounts. Your boss is sceptical but is willing to listen to your arguments. He has asked you to submit an explanation of the change that you propose and why it is necessary at HS.
Also, your boss has asked you for an example of how your role as an ‘internal consultant’ would be valuable at HS by looking at the ideas of brand loyalty and awareness. You should consider their impact on performance management at HS, both from the customer and the internal business process perspectives and how to measure them.
Required:
(a) Describe the changes in the role of the management accountant based on Burns and Scapens work. Explain what is driving these changes and justify why they are appropriate to HS. (12 marks)
(b) Using HS as an example, discuss the impact of brand loyalty and awareness on the business both from the customer and the internal business process perspectives and evaluate suitable measures for brand loyalty and awareness. (8 marks)