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5 phases that characterize Benchmarking

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  • Identify the strategic objectives
  • Performance orientation
  • Process orientation
  • Sample selection
  • Leader-, sector- or internal benchmarking
  • Involvement modality
  • Unconsious
  • Consious
  • Performances of choice for the comparison
  • Definition of scope
  • Definition of the measurement system
  • Data correction
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What is Consolidated Financial Statement and different theories?

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The financial statement of a group of companies.

  • Proprietary theory - Views the company as an extension of its owners.

Con: Does not show details on invested capital and minority interest.

  • Entity theory - Views the group as a seperate economic entity

Pro: CFS is complete, minority interest is shown
Con: Result of the group can be overestimated.

  • Parent company theory - Adopts the view point of parent company shareholders.

Parent dont own assets or has responsability for liabilities, but can control them.

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Operational budget:

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  • Revenues budget
    Budgetes the revenues, based on for example historical data, season etc.
  • Production budget
    Budgets quantity and volumes needed for the production.

Ex. Do we need to outsource?

  • Cost of goods sold
  • Direct material consumption
  • Direct labor
  • Manufacturing overhead
  • Period costs budget (This one has Incremental approach and Zero based budget approach)
  • Selling
  • Marketing
  • Administrative
  • General costs
  • R&D
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What 3 budgets is included in Master Budget

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Operation budget
Capital expenditure budget
Financial budget

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Financial budgets

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Includes:

The budget cash flow statement

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Capital expenditure budget

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Outlines anticipated capital exependiture:

Example buying equipment or building a new store.

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Exemplify: Financial planning - Long term

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  • Bank loan / Syndicated bank loan
  • Corporate bonds
  • Leasing
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Exemplify: Financial planning - short term

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  • Bridge/bank/syndicated bank loan
  • Lines of credit
  • Factoring
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Tell me about corporate bonds

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Securitys that corporations can sell on the market, meaning individuals or corporation can lend money in exchange of interest or just repayment over time.

Hybrid bonds: Mix of equity and dept, can swap from bond- to share-holder
Zero coupon: The bond pays no coupon
Coupon: Bond pays coupons over time. Rate can be fixed or floating.

Pros:
Priority in case of default
Often higher interest rate
If you cant take bank loan this is an option.

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Two categories of leasing

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Operating leasing - Shorter period than life of asset

Financial leasing - Generally last whole asset life

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What is Financial planning?

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Choosing the best source of financing for the company

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What is Value based indicators?

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VBI aim at controlling enterprises, measuring the creation of value and its risks.

Four type of indicators:

  • Direct measurement of present value
  • Indirect measurement of present value
  • Relative valuation
  • Value based proxies
  • Risk value indicators
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Value based proxies

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  • Total Business Return
    TBR = V(1) + Net Cash Flow (1)
  • Market Value Added
    MVA = Market value - Invested capital
  • Total shareholder return
    TSR = (Variance in market value + Dividends) / Initial market value
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Risk value indicators

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  • Value at risk (VAR)
  • Economic capital
  • Risk-adjusted Return indicators
  • RORAC, RAROC, RARORAC
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Main steps in Relative valuation?

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Main steps:
- Defining comparable companies ( Should be companies which are competing on our same values )

  • Defining possible multiples (Convert asset values into standardised values. Absolute prices cannot be compared)
  • Analysing multiples. To choose the best multiples.
  • Applying multiples.
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Relative valuation - Possible multiples

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Asset side:

  • EV/EBIT
  • EV/EBITDA
  • EV/FCFF
  • EV/SALES

Equity side:

  • P/E
  • PEG
  • P/FCFE
  • P/BV
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What is Value drivers?

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Value drivers refer to indicators which provide early signals of value creation.

Three categories:

  • Non financial performance indicators
  • Non financial resource state
  • Drivers of risk
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Value drivers: Non financial performance indicator - Time

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Internal (Time for performing specific processes):

  • Highlighting non value added activities
  • Throughput time
  • Time Efficiency

External :

  • Delivery time
  • Time to market
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Value drivers: Non financial performance indicator - Quality

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External quality: Products

  • Quality of design
    • How the product meet needs and wants
  • Customer responsiveness
    • Capability of product to respond to needs and wants of customers
  • Conformance quality
    • Performance of a product/service relative to its design and product specifications

Internal quality: Process
- Measure the failure in the production and the delivery process

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How to map performances and customer satisfaction to understand how we performe?

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Use a map consisting:
Concentrate here
Keep up the good work
Low priority
Possible overkill
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Value drivers: Non financial performance indicator - Productivity

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Productivity = Output / Input

Measuring outputs:

Production type / Output indicator
One-product / Quantity
Different, but homogeneous products / Quantity with physical weights
Diversified products / “Standard” sales

Measuring inputs:

Partial productivity = Output is confronted against each production factor
Global productivity = Output is confronted against a weighted average of production factors

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Value drivers: Non financial performance indicator - Flexibility

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Capability of a company of answering to changes with limited cost and time.

Different types:
Entity of change = Small, Range, Large
Nature of change = Quality (Product, Production, Operation), Quantity (Volume, Mix, Expansion)

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Value drivers: Non financial performance indicator - Environment and Society - Sustainability

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Cost drivers: Energy consumptions, fines
Revenue drivers: CO2 emissions, Reputational effect

GRI Standard (Global Reporting Initiative)

KPI examples: Use of materials, energy consumption

Carbon footprint

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Value drivers: Non Financial measure - Resource Indicators

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Aims at capturing potentialities for enterprises to innovate and grow
Cover both tangible and intangible assets

Four types of resources:

  • Financial
  • Technological
  • Human and organizational
  • Image and reputation

Three types of measures:

  • Quality
  • Quantity
  • Accessibility
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Value drivers: Non Financial measure - Intellectual capital
Is referred as a resource including three dimensions: - Human capital: Skill, education. - Relation capital: relationships with customers and suppliers, reputation. - Internal structure capital: intangible assets and knowledge embedded in organisational structures and processes (include patents, technology, basically whats left when the staff has gone home)
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Value drivers: Non Financial measure - Human Resources
Human capital index
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Value drivers: Non Financial measure - Image and reputation - Brand Equity
Potential of the brand (how the brand is different from others)
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Characteristics of non-financial performance and resource indicators
På sida 94 står det vad termerna betyder. Dessa är tagna från sida 103. - Timeliness: High, main advantage of these measures - Long term orientation: can be high - Measurability: possible ambiguity (oklarhet, mångtydighet) - Completeness - Precision
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Risk drivers: Key risk indicators
* Objective or subjective | * Single or composite
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Target setting is related to these two parts:
Budgeting Risk and performance measurement
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Targets are used for:
Decision making Motivation
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Performance Management Systems support the target process by:
Defining reference performance values -> Budgeting Predicting performance variability and events -> Enterprise-wide Risk Management (ERM) system Checking variance between forecast and actual values
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ERM model areas of risk:
Strategic Operations Reporting Compliance
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ERM eight elements:
``` Internal environment Objective setting Event identification Risk assessment Risk response Control activities Information and communication Monitoring ```
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Indicators which may come out from ERM are:
- Risk value proxies | - Key risk indicators
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Key risk indicators typology
- Objective or subjetive | - Single or composite
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Three types of operational centers
- Cost centers: Relation between output and required resources, no direct link to external market - Revenue centers: Directly interact with external market - Expense centers: Responsible for period cost. No direct link with external market.
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Cost centers
They are: - Responsible in the use of resources - Not responsible in determining the output level C_tot=C_variable * Q + C_fixed Problems: Cannot control variances Short term oriented Solutions: ABM
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Variance analysis
First level: Total variance = Actual cost - Budgeted cost Second level example: Direct labour cost = Cost per unit (€/u) * Volume (u) Third level: Direct labor unit cost = hourly rate (€/h) * direct labour use (h/u)
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Revenues centers
Responsibility limited to the output. Revenues = price (p) * Volume (V) Problems: Cannot control variations in price and quantity sold Yearly revenues are not long term indicators
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Expense centers
Output not easily identifiable with money. | Control on performance is not possible.
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Name a problem of Corporate cost allocation
Occurs when there are some resources which belong to the corporate, but these resources are employed by this business unit.
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Four essential purposes of corporate cost allocation:
- To provide information for economic decisions - To motivate managers and other employees - To justify cost or compute reimbursement - To measure income and assets for reporting to external parties
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How to allocate cost? 3 possibilites
No allocation, complete allocation, partial allocation
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A transfer pricing system is required for several purposes, which are they?
- to provide information that motivates divisional managers to make good economic decisions - to communicate data that will lead to goal-congruent decisions - to provide information for evaluating divisional performances - to ensure divisional autonomy - to plan tax
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Transfer pricing methods
- Market-based transfer prices - Cost based plus mark up transfer prices * Full actual cost * Full standard cost * Marginal cost - Negotiated transfer prices - Dual transfer prices
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Market-based transfer prices
Refers to the market outside Problems: Non-homogeneous markets High variability of prices Strategic divisions
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Definition of a group
- Proprietary theory : Views the company as an extension of its owners - Entity theory: Views the group as a separate economic entity - Parent company theory: View the point of parent company shareholders
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Required steps for consolidation
- Harmonisation of accounting principles between companies - Harmonisation of the accounting period (no longer than 3 months) - Elimination of equity investment - Elimination of intragroup transactions - Definition of the value of assets and liabilities of the group Two ways: Proportionate consolidation Line by line basis consolidation
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Why benchmarking?
To understand strengths and weaknesses To improve knowledge To improve efficiency