Internal Control : Performance Measures
Essex Engineering
Topic: Performance measures,
Essex is an industrial company with three divisions. Both the Midland Division and the North Division are long established. Senior managers are concerned that these divisions have a high percentage of products that are near the end of their product life-cycle. Forecast sales increases over the next 5 years is expected to be in the region of 4-5% per annum.
The East Division was acquired in 1999 and senior managers are optimistic that this division has very good growth potential. Most of the senior managers at this division have experience of working at the other divisions.
Since 1999 the head office has ranked all divisions according to return on investment (ROI) and residual income (RI). All managers believe that the rankings are important for future promotions and career development.
A small number of other performance measures are also used by managers. These include
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1. |
Non-productive time: Non-productive direct labour hours (percentage of total hours paid). Non-productive time includes time wasted as a result of production delays or material shortages. |
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2. |
Customers: Customer complaints (percentage of total number of customers) |
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3. |
Lead time: Time from order to delivery |
These performance measures were agreed by all managers in 1999. At the time it was thought that managers should focus on only a small number of measures.
2002
The managers at the divisions provided the following information for the head office.
Selected data from the budgeted Management Accounts to 31 December 2002
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Midland Division |
Northern Division |
East Division |
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$ |
$ | ||
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Sales |
1,580,000 |
1,560,000 |
1,112,000 |
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Cost data |
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Controllable cost of goods sold |
650,000 |
620,000 |
380,000 |
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Non -controllable cost of goods sold |
116,000 |
115,000 |
100,000 |
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Controllable Selling general & Administrative overheads |
370,000 |
400,000 |
370,000 |
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Non-controllable Selling general & Administrative overheads |
250,000 |
250,000 |
162,000 |
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Total costs |
1,386,000 |
1,385,000 |
1,012,000 |
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Capital employed |
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Total investment |
1,400,000 |
1,440,000 |
850,000 |
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Controllable investment |
1,200,000 |
1,111,000 |
800,000 |
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Sales growth 2003 |
4.80% |
5.20% |
28.00% |
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Sales growth 2004 |
4.30% |
5.10% |
37.00% |
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1,580,000 |
1,560,000 |
1,112,000 |
Other measures
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Midland Division |
Northern Division |
East Division |
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Non-productive time: Non-productive direct labour hours (percentage of total hours paid). |
2001 |
4% |
4% |
6% |
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2002 |
4.1% |
3.8% |
7.5% |
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Customer complaints (percentage of total number of customers) |
2001 |
1% |
1.2% |
5% |
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2002 |
1.1% |
1.1% |
6% |
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Lead time: Time from order to delivery |
2001 |
10 days |
9 days |
15 days |
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2002 |
11 days |
9 days |
18 days |
The head office has estimated that the group cost of capital is 10%
Ranking divisions in 2000
In 2000 the data on controllable and non-controllable costs and investments will be used to rank divisions.
Questions
Question 1
Based on the data provided comment on the relative financial performance of the two divisions and discuss how the ranking of the divisions changes if controllable and non-controllable costs and capital employed are analysed. (provide the calculation to prove your standpoint)
Question 2
Evaluate the choice of performance measures for the 3 divisions
Question 3
Identify and evaluate the difficulties faced by managers when measuring capital employed for a division.
Question 4
Discuss how using ROI can result in managers making poor investment decisions.
ROI has some built in biases that can lead managers to make poor decisions. First, ROI requires that all costs and benefits be stated in dollars. Because it is usually easier to quantify costs than benefits, ROI measurements can be biased in a way that gives undue weight to costs. Second, ROI focuses on benefits that can be predicted. It also tends to emphasize short run benefits over long run benefits. This biases ROI calculations to weigh short term costs and benefits more heavily than long term costs and benefits.
Question 5
Discuss the particular problems multinational companies have when evaluating the performance of divisions.
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Balance June 30, 2019
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