Background:

You are recently employed as a graduate consultant in a management consultancy firm and are assigned to a team. One of your firm’s clients is currently evaluating its budgeting system. The CEO of your client had recently attended a seminar on Activity-Based Budgeting (ABB) in private companies and would like to know whether ABB is suitable to the company. Your manager has asked your team to prepare a report for the client.

Required:

Your group is required to prepare a report to comment on the suitability of ABB for a company of your group’s choice (your firm’s client). The report should cover the followings:

a) A description of your firm’s client

b) A description of the ABB and its features

c) In what ways ABB is different from traditional budgeting systems

d) A discussion on whether the ABB is suitable to your firm’s client