Evaluating division performance
Last Resort Industries Inc. is a privately held diversified company with live separate divisions organized as investment centers. A condensed income statement for the Specialty Products Division for the past year, assuming no service department charges, is as follows:
Last Resort Industries Inc.—Specialty Products Division Income Statement For the Year Ended December 31,20Y5 |
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Sales | $32,400,000 |
Cost of goods sold | 24,300,000 |
Gross profit | $8,100,000 |
Operating expenses | 3,240,000 |
Income from operations | $4,860,000 |
Invested assets | $27,000,000 |
The manager of the Specialty Products Division was recently presented with the opportunity to add an additional product line, which would require invested assets of $14,400,000. A
New Product Line Projected Income Statement For the Year Ended December 31,20Y6 |
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Sales | $12,960,000 |
Cost of goods sold | 7,500,000 |
Gross profit | $5,460,000 |
Operating expenses | 3,127,200 |
Income from operations | $ 2,332,800 |
The Specialty Products Division currently has $27,000,000 in invested assets, and Last Resort Industries Inc.’s overall
The president is concerned that the manager of the Specialty Products Division rejected the addition of the new product line, even though all estimates indicated that the product line would be profitable and would increase overall company income. You have been asked to analyze the possible reasons the Specialty Products Division manager rejected the new product line.
- 1. Determine the return on investment for the Specialty Products Division for the past year.
- 2. Determine the Specialty Products Division manager’s bonus for the past year.
- 3. Determine the estimated return on investment for the new product line. Round whole percents to one decimal place and investment turnover to two decimal places.
- 4. Why might the manager of the Specialty Products Division decide to reject the new product line? Support your answer by determining the projected return on investment for 20Y6, assuming that the new product line was launched in the Specialty Products Division, and 20Y6 actual operating results were similar to those of 20Y5.
- 5. Suggest an alternative performance measure for motivating division managers to accept new investment opportunities that would increase the overall company income and return on investment.
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