INSTRUCTIONS FOR FINAL FORMAL BUSINESS REPORT

For your report assignment you must create a report from the topics attached on the
separate page. Your completed report is due by December 6 th .

Your completed report should be 8-12 pages, including the title page and the graphic
illustration. Refer to Chapter 13 in textbook.

Make sure your analysis/findings are thoroughly and clearly presented.

Your report must include the following:

1. A title page that includes your name, the title of your report, and date
submitted
2. Letter or memo of transmittal
3. Table of Contents
4. Executive Summary or abstract
5. Body
6. A graphic illustration (a chart or graph).
7. Conclusions and recommendations
8. References and bibliography (at least 3-4; 1 reference can be your
textbook, the others can be online sources if necessary)

Remember that you may add any information to the topic that you chose for your
particular report. Also, if you have another business related idea for a topic that you
would like to choose, just let me know and I will approve if it is appropriate.

Make sure to apply Guffey’s 3-x-3 writing process (Prewriting, Writing, and Revising) to
break this project into manageable steps.

Refer to the Grammar and Mechanics Guide posted in Blackboard, for help with
grammatical and punctuation use.

Misspelled words, punctuation, and grammatical mistakes will cost you VERY
heavily on this report so proofread, proofread, proofread!!!
 Business Communications Report Topics (choose one)

 Your company is opening a branch in another country (your choice). You’ve been
asked to review and analyze what other companies have done to prepare their
managers for such a move. In addition, you must come up with a detailed plan
for selecting and training these managers.

 An increasing number of organizations are using teams to accomplish their

objectives. Therefore, students need to understand and master the skills and
behaviors necessary to work in teams effectively. Write a report in which you
identify what those skills and behaviors are, evaluate how well your skills and
behaviors compare to those standards, identify the areas in which you need to
improve and specify how you plan to make those improvements. Use
professional journals, your experience working in teams and observations of
others’ experience in your research.

 You work for a corporation whose industry is in the midst of a massive

consolidation. Your corporation has recently been named as a probable target
for a takeover. How should management prepare for this possibility? Should it
bide its time and wait for a potential buyer? Or, should it become more
aggressive by making additional acquisitions?