COST ACCOUNTING
COST ACCOUNTING
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Author: Horngren
Publisher: PEARSON C
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Chapter 23, Problem 23.30E

ROI, RI, EVA, and performance evaluation. Cora Manufacturing makes fashion products and competes on the basis of quality and leading-edge designs. The company has two divisions, clothing and cosmetics. Cora has $5,000,000 invested in assets in its clothing division. After-tax operating income from sales of clothing this year is $1,000,000. The cosmetics division has $12,500,000 invested in assets and an after-tax operating income this year of $2,000,000. The weighted-average cost of capital for Cora is 6%. The CEO of Cora has told the manager of each division that the division that “performs best” this year will get a bonus.

  1. 1. Calculate the ROI and residual income for each division of Cora Manufacturing, and briefly explain which manager will get the bonus. What are the advantages and disadvantages of each measure?

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  1. 2. The CEO of Cora Manufacturing has recently heard of another measure similar to residual income called EVA. The CEO has the accountant calculate adjusted incomes for clothing and cosmetics and finds that the adjusted after-tax operating incomes are $634,200 and $2,181,600, respectively. Also, the clothing division has $470,000 of current liabilities, while the cosmetics division has only $380,000 of current liabilities. Using the preceding information, calculate the EVA for each division and discuss which manager will get the bonus.
  2. 3. What nonfinancial measures could Cora use to evaluate divisional performances?
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Chapter 23 Solutions

COST ACCOUNTING

Ch. 23 - Managers should be rewarded only on the basis of...Ch. 23 - Explain the role of benchmarking in evaluating...Ch. 23 - Explain the incentive problems that can arise when...Ch. 23 - Prob. 23.14QCh. 23 - Prob. 23.15QCh. 23 - During the current year, a strategic business unit...Ch. 23 - Assuming an increase in price levels over time,...Ch. 23 - If ROI Is used to evaluate a managers performance...Ch. 23 - The Long Haul Trucking Company is developing...Ch. 23 - ABC Inc. desires to maintain a capital structure...Ch. 23 - ROI, comparisons of three companies. (CMA,...Ch. 23 - Prob. 23.22ECh. 23 - ROI and RI. (D. Kleespie, adapted) The Sports...Ch. 23 - ROI and RI with manufacturing costs. Excellent...Ch. 23 - ROI, RI, EVA. Hamilton Corp. is a reinsurance and...Ch. 23 - Goal incongruence and ROI. Comfy Corporation...Ch. 23 - ROI, RI, EVA. Performance Auto Company operates a...Ch. 23 - Capital budgeting, RI. Ryan Alcoa, a new associate...Ch. 23 - Prob. 23.29ECh. 23 - ROI, RI, EVA, and performance evaluation. Cora...Ch. 23 - Prob. 23.31ECh. 23 - Prob. 23.32ECh. 23 - ROI performance measures based on historical cost...Ch. 23 - ROI, measurement alternatives for performance...Ch. 23 - Multinational firms, differing risk, comparison of...Ch. 23 - ROI, Rl, DuPont method, investment decisions,...Ch. 23 - Division managers compensation, levers of control...Ch. 23 - Executive compensation, balanced scorecard. Acme...Ch. 23 - Financial and nonfinancial performance measures,...Ch. 23 - Prob. 23.40PCh. 23 - Prob. 23.41PCh. 23 - RI, EVA, measurement alternatives, goal...
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