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1. BUS 327 Week 1 Individual Assignment
Environmental Accounting Paper
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Resource: Week One readings
Write a 1,050-word paper, explaining the concept of
environmental accounting.
Select an organization with which you are familiar, such as a past or
current employer. Select one of the following environmental accounting
applications:
Budgeting·
Calculating costs, savings, and benefits of environmental·
projects
Environmental performance evaluation, indicators, and·
benchmarks
Setting quantified performance targets·
Other data reporting to statistical agencies and local·

2. authorities
Research your application’s principles and practices. Define
environmental accounting and its basic concepts.
Describe how the selected application was used or ignored by the
organization to achieve a strategic objective or tactical goal, or to
resolve an operational performance issue. State the strategic objective,
tactical goal, or performance issue.
Summarize your insights and lessons learned about the importance of
environmental accounting in sustainable organizations.
Format your paper consistent with APA guidelines
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BUS 327 Week 2 Learning Team Assignment
Resolving Sustainability Problems Paper and
Presentation
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Resources: Week Two Readings, Return On Investment Worksheet,
Appendix A, Appendix B

3. Prepare a 1,050- to 1,400-word paper and a three- to five- slide
Microsoft® PowerPoint® presentation, identifying an organization’s
pressing sustainability problem.
Select an organization with which your Learning Team is familiar.
Research publicly accessible literature on the organization and assess the
financial desirability of resolving one of its sustainability problems.
Sustainability problems are often associated with the following issues:
Adequacy of environmental policies, objectives, goals, and targets·
Ability to gather, analyze, and report actionable·
environmental performance information
Regulatory compliance·
Adverse events·
Long-term environmental liabilities·
Sustainability of production or service delivery processes·
Note. Appendix A is a list of corporate sustainability websites that
provide information similar to what you research for your chosen
organization.
Part One
State a performance improvement goal to resolve the problem.
State the types of data and information factors needed to establish a
current performance baseline.
State the types of data and information factors needed to calculate the
return on investment in achieving the goal. Name and describe types of

4. environmental and other information systems that must be used to obtain
the data. Utilize the Week Two readings and other research to gain
insight.
Part Two
Utilize the Return On Investment Worksheet to qualitatively identify
likely cost factors in resolving the problem. Compare current cost factors
versus those required to resolve the problem.
Describe the type of return on investment analysis needed to assess the
financial desirability of resolving the problem. Format your information
as a sequential outline or flow chart.
Describe the possible consequences of not resolving the problem at this
time; for example, is there short- or long-term risk of death, illness,
injury, criminal prosecution, civil litigation, bankruptcy, adverse
financial performance, or regulatory or political sanctions?
Evaluate the return on investment by figuring out if successfully
completing the project would benefit the organization in terms of
reduced long-term costs, efforts, and risks without excessive short- or
long-term capital expenditures or operating expenses.
Format your paper consistent with APA guidelines. Part Three
Prepare a 6- to 8-minute presentation, summarizing the assessment’s key
points. Include three to five PowerPoint slides, created in concept map
format. See Appendix B for concept map tips.
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BUS 327 Week 3 Individual Assignment Supply
and Value Chains

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Resources: Week Three readings; Supply and Value Chain, and LCA
Flow chart Template; Supply Chain, Value Chain, and Lifecycle
Assessment Worksheet
Part One
Review and follow the Supply and Value Chain, and LCA Flow chart
Template to see the type of information to enter in each box.
Select a simple consumer product, such as a wooden baseball bat,
bottled spring water, fresh-consumption tomatoes, and so forth.
Complete the template for your chosen product, showing specific
activities involved in its production during the input, input transforming
work, output, and end of initial product life phases.
Copy the activities on the flow chart to the Supply and Value Chain
Activities column of the Supply Chain, Value Chain, and Lifecycle
Assessment Worksheet. For each activity, note the most likely
inefficiencies encountered at this point in product life.
Enter these findings in the Likely Inefficiencies in the Supply and Value
Chains column.
Address specific concerns in the End of Initial Product Life row.
Inefficiencies include defects in the work process design; delays;

6. mistakes; accidents; rework; negligence; shortages or depletion of raw
material; defects in and contamination of process inputs; solid, gaseous,
aqueous, energy, physical- chemical hazard, biohazard wastes;
operationally avoidable regulatory compliance activities; regulatory
sanctions; and loss of product attractiveness.
Part Two
Examine each inefficiency, and determine whether or not there are risks
of specific associated adverse environmental changes. Emphasis shifts
from supply and value chains and their conventional inefficiencies to
adverse sustainability issues defined through basic lifecycle assessment
concepts and methods.
State the nature of each adverse change in terms of the cause, the
affected environmental element, and its significance.
Enter these findings in the Lifecycle Assessment column.
Address specific concerns listed in the End of Initial Product Life row.
Specific concerns include soil mining, economic poison applications,
resource depletions, controlled and uncontrolled releases of various
types of waste, and so forth.
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BUS 327 Week 4 Individual Assignment Green
Facility and Product Assessments as Key
Components of Corporate Transparency
Programs Paper

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Resources: Week Four readings, Simplified LEED Audit Worksheet,
Green Product Design Assessment Worksheet, Appendix C
Prepare a 1,050- to 1,400-word paper.
Use an elementary method based on LEED to assess some sustainable
qualities of a medium-sized public or corporate facility.
Complete a rudimentary assessment of a simple product's green
qualities.
Recommend ways to include your facility and product assessment
findings, and performance improvement recommendations in a corporate
transparency program.
Part One
Select a medium-sized public or corporate facility with which you are
familiar, such as a government complex, school, office park, distribution
center, or shopping center.
Complete the Simplified LEED Audit Worksheet.
Utilize the audit’s findings to prescribe facility improvements
that would lessen the facility's adverse environmental effects. Label the
document LEED Assessment.
Part Two

8. Select a simple consumer product, such as potato chips, a wooden
baseball bat, or a t-shirt.
Complete the Green Product Design Assessment Worksheet. Employ
concepts presented in Better by Design– An Innovation Guide: Using
Natural Design Solutions to complete the worksheet.
Identify the most critical phases of the product's lifecycle in terms of the
most significant risks of adverse effects on natural and human
environments.
Evaluate the chances that your recommended innovations could avoid or
minimize production inefficiencies while maintaining or enhancing the
product's appeal.
Label the document Green Product Assessment. Part Three
Recommend how best to report the assessment’s findings and
performance improvement prescriptions to specific stakeholders, using
the following concepts:
Identifying and addressing stakeholder expectations and information
needs·
Determining key performance indices for measuring progress against
commitments·
Developing data and information capabilities·
Developing an approach to verifying reports·
Designing, producing, and distributing reports·
Label the document Corporate Transparency. Consider reporting
challenges.

9. Utilize Appendix C as a reference for creating a basic business analysis
report.
Format your paper consistent with APA guidelines.
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BUS 327 Week 5 Learning Team Assignment
Propose an Environmental Initiative
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The hard work required to plan and successfully complete an
environmental audit is the beginning of the performance improvement
process. The audit is a needs assessment. The real work involves
designing, implementing, and sustaining efficient solutions to the most
pressing problems defined in
the audit. Efficiency means that objectives, no matter how high they are
set, are achieved with the least cost, effort, and risk.
Resources: High-level Structured Change Management Worksheet,
Obstruction Behavior and Mitigation Worksheet, Appendix E, Appendix
F
Complete the High-level Structured Change Management Worksheet.

10. Complete the Obstruction Behavior Worksheet.
Propose an environmental initiative, using structured change
management methods. Part One
Choose one of your team member’s Regulatory Compliance Audit
assignment and company to use for this assignment.
Identify one of the most pressing sustainability problems at the facility
used in the Regulatory Compliance Audit assignment.
Go to the target facility’s sustainability Web page. Identify a significant
sustainability issue for which the facility has defined a strategic
objective, set a tactical goal, or undertaken an performance improvement
initiative. The objective, goal, or initiative must include specific
quantitative baseline and progress measurement factors.
State the nature of the problem in qualitative and quantitative terms, its
root cause, and the nature of the objective, goal, or initiative. See
Appendix E for examples of typical root causes. Choose or modify an
example to fit the facility’s situation.
Describe any formal and specific efforts the facility has or will
undertake to successfully achieve the objective, goal, or initiative. If the
facility has not yet proposed any such efforts, prescribe and describe
one.
Enter this information in the High-level Structured Change Management
Worksheet.
Part Two
Define high-level changes required to successfully achieve the objective,
goal, or initiative.

11. Define high-level changes required to successfully implement and
sustain the objective, goal or, initiative.
Enter this information in the High-level Structured Change Management
Worksheet. Use supplementary sheets, if needed.
Refer to Appendix F for helpful tips.
Part Three
Outline the instruction and training needed to implement the changes.
Outline basic kinds of competency-based instruction and training at the
executive, mid-level, professional, and worker levels to prepare the
organization for the changes, and implement and sustain those changes.
Enter this information in the High-level Structured Change Management
Worksheet. Use supplementary sheets, if needed.
Part Four
Prescribe how the target organization must test its preparedness to
change.
Prescribe how the target organization must test its preparedness to
successfully implement changes prior to an official kick-off date.
Describe the kind of feedback loop needed to enable the organization to
apply lessons learned from the preparedness testing back into the
objective, goal, or initiative; various changes; or instruction and training.
Enter this information in the High-level Structured Change Management
Worksheet. Use supplementary sheets, if needed.
Part Five

12. Prescribe how the organization must actively manage changes once
implemented.
Monitor progress in implementing and sustaining changes, in qualitative
and quantitative terms, and achieving the objective, goal, or initiative.
Enter this information in the High-level Structured Change Management
Worksheet. Use supplementary sheets, if needed.
Part Six
Assess the risk of obstructionist behaviors that may threaten the
initiative’s success.
Assess types and the likelihood of obstruction behaviors for various
categories of changes, using the Obstruction Behavior and Mitigation
Worksheet.
Utilize the worksheet to prescribe and assess the likely effectiveness of
ways to avoid or minimize such problems.
Part Seven
Propose the initiative to the organization’s board of directors and
executive team.
Cover the following points in a brief presentation that summarizes
preceding work:
Most pressing problem and root cause·
A description of the objective, goal, or initiative to resolve·
the problem

13. A brief overview of changes required to successfully achieve the
objective, goal, or initiative·
A brief overview of types of instruction and training needed to prepare
all organizational levels to succeed in completing changes·
A concise description of the proposed preparedness testing and
feedback loop·
A description of measures needed at all levels of the organization to
actively manage changes to achieve and sustain the objective, goal, or
initiative, with an emphasis of challenges presented by the most
problematic changes·
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