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Cost Accounting 101 Practice Test: Strategy, Balanced Scorecard, and Strategic Profitability Analysis — Flashcards

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A strategy is a plan or set of plans to achieve a goal, especially over a long period of time. A balanced scorecard is a strategic planning framework that companies use to prioritize products, services, and projects, and to plan activities and communicate goals. Strategic profitability analysis is a tool to evaluate how well a business generates profit from its strategy. 

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Strategy:
A strategy specifies how an organization matches its capabilities with market opportunities to achieve its objectives.
Balanced scorecard: A strategic planning and performance management framework that tracks financial and non-financial measures to determine an organization's effectiveness. It involves measuring four main aspects of a business: learning and growth, business processes, customers, and finance.
Strategic profitability analysis: A tool to evaluate the success of a business in generating profit from the implementation of its strategy. 

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________ describes how an organization matches its own capabilities with the opportunities in the marketplace to accomplish its overall objectives.
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