Professional Documents
Culture Documents
Performance
measurement
• Balanced scorecard:
– Measures and drivers are used to monitor progress
towards the goals, and they should be communicated
throughout the entity.
– Key performance indicators (KPIs) are performance
measures that are critical for the success of the entity.
Organisational performance measurement
• Organisational structures:
Divisional performance management
• Organisational structures:
Divisional performance management
• Pricing guide:
– Pros and cons of the allocation of corporate and other
common costs to divisions.
Divisional performance management
– Example:
Investment centre performance
evaluation
• Return on investment:
– Further analysis can be conducted using Du Pont ROI.
• Return on investment:
Investment centre performance
evaluation
• Return on investment:
– Advantages:
• Easy to use and understand.
• Links profit with investment base, thus increasing
awareness of asset management and
discouraging overinvestment.
• Relationship between assets held in the
statement of financial position and profit in the
statement of profit or loss can be easily linked.
Investment centre performance
evaluation
• Return on investment:
– Disadvantages:
• Percentage measure, not measure of absolute
values.
• Does not consider divisions that differ in size or
type.
• Divisional managers can manipulate ROI by
decreasing investment base relative to segment
profit.
• ROI could result in suboptimal decision making.
Investment centre performance
evaluation
• Residual income:
– The formula for residual income is:
• Eco-efficiency:
– The organisation of economic and co-operative
development (OECD) states that eco-efficiency:
‘expresses the efficiency with which ecological
resources are used to meet human needs’.
– The purpose is to integrate ecological impact with
economic information.
– The result will show the environmental impact added
per chosen unit of economic performance.
Environmental and social performance