Research guides: MAF1002: Strategy, Governance and Management Accounting: Home

Welcome MAF1002!

Your group project requires you to do deep research as a consultant to The Federation of Black Canadians, applying the management control concepts you learned in class. You are also required to analyze the current situation of the organization and create a strategy and a business plan for the Board of Directors. This will involve finding articles and other information to support your case and analysis.

Consider doing the following:

Finding alternatives to SWOT to assess environment and challenge
Defining key success factors for the organization's environment (in relation to strategies, initiatives and values)
Researching risk for this type of organization, ERM
Reviewing effectiveness of equity, diversity and inclusion (EDI) strategies
Comparing to other non-profits to recommend corporate governance and ethical practice improvements
Reviewing and assessing performance measurement system to ensure overall strategy coherence
Researching non-profit funding models
Finding information on possible marketing strategies for EDI
Exploring the role of strategic technologies
Investigating partnerships for this sector

The resources in this guide are supplementary to the those shared by your professor in class, which provide additional detail and background knowledge on The Federation of Black Canadians. Please refer to the full assignment description for project deliverables.

For an introduction to the topic of Black heritage in Canada, please see Statistics Canada's Diversity of the Black population in Canada: An overview.