a. For your own or some other organisation, identify:
(i) the various areas of control of the activities of the organisation; and (ii) the forms and/or strategies of control systems adopted.
b. Examine a particular organisational control system of your choice and assess the extent to which it satisfies:
(i) the essential elements of a control system; and (ii) the characteristic features of a good control system.
Give your views, with supporting reasons, on the apparent effectiveness of the control system, and the balance between order and flexibility.
c. Attempt to discover, and explain, a particular situation in which a management control system was welcomed by staff and/or where lack of a control system was the source of frustration to staff.
d. Comment critically on the operation and influence of financial and accounting systems of control.