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Week 6 Skill Building Activity

Week 6 Skill Building Activity

Q Task 1: Read Chapter 10 and complete the exercises in your study guide to help you understand the material. Task 2: Using the attached Excel template, complete and upload PR 10-2B and answer the following question: • What managerial decisions are influenced by differential analysis reports? How do these reports help in decision making? Create a new discussion topic by clicking the '**REPLY HERE**' post. In your reply, you will post your answers to the Skill Building Activity questions. Your response to the activity questions should be a minimum of 250 words. Going over the minimum word length requirement is acceptable; however, I am not looking for 1000+ words! It is suggested that you use MS Word or another word processing application that can check spelling/grammar and can show the word count. Because this is a skill building activity, it is important that you do your best to evaluate and assess the discussion without bias or judgment. You are expected to properly cite (https://gmcga.libguides.com/citationmanagement/APA7th) and incorporate scholarly/peer reviewed sources (http://gmcga.libguides.com/periodicals) in your skill building activity topic/posts. Be as thorough as possible when writing your activity topic/posts, and remember, this is an academic assignment, so no “text-talk,” no conversational tone, and ABOVE ALL OTHER THINGS… don't plagiarize!! Lastly, spell-check and proofread your work! Failure to follow these steps will negatively impact your grade. Remember that your first post is what will be graded - any subsequent posts do not receive credit. Unlike Discussion Forums, you are not required to make additional replies to peers in these Skill Building Activities. The Skill Building Activities will use the grading rubric listed in the Important Course Information Section.

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Differential analysis requires you to think about all the potential solutions to a particular business opportunity to determine which one is the most cost-effective. By analyzing the cost and revenue potential of your options, your accounting process can steer your business in the right direction. It can also help your business avoid making moves that seem on the surface to be profitable, but in fact carry more costs or generate less revenue than expected. Differential cost analysis focuses your attention on the expense side of the equation.