Annual capacity or units. Performance Evaluation Prior to 1992, each division had been treated as a profit center, with annual division profit budgets negotiated between the president and the respective division general managers At the urging of Henry Hubbard, Enager's president, Carl Randall, had decided to begin treating each division as an investment center, so as to be able to relate each division's profit to the assets the division used to generate its profits Starting in 1992, each division was measured as based on its return on assets, which was defined to be the division's net income divided by its total assets. Net income for a division was calculated by taking the division's"direct income before taxes," then subtracting the division's share of corporate administrative expenses(allocated on the basis of divisional revenues) and its share of income tax expense(the tax rate applied to the division's"direct income before taxes" after subtraction of the allocated corporate administrative expenses). Although Hubbard realized there were other ways to define a division's income, he and the president preferred this method since"it made the sum of the(divisional) parts equal to the(corporate) whole Similarly, Enager's total assets were subdivided among three divisions. Since each division operated in physically separate facilities, it was easy to attribute most assets, including