ROI for the Manufacturing Plants had Continuing the company's Rol strategy, each manufacturing plant within the three product divisions an annual ROI target to meet. Each product division's oEM sales were traced to the plants that made the parts. The plants maintained finished goods inventories and shipped parts OEM customers. A directly to plant's Rol et was based on budgeted profit (including allocation of division and corporate overhead expenses and an imputed income tax expense) divided by actual beginning-of-the-year net assets (defined as total assets less current liabilities). Exhibit 2 contains example of the Rochester plan actual 1992 an ROl computation. Actual Rol was actual profit divided by actual ginning-of-the yea net assets Top management's stated reason for including allocated overhead expenses and taxes in determining profit was to have the plant profit figure resemble the profit calculation for external financial reports to shareholders. The CEO felt this gave a plant manager a clearer perspective of the costs of doing business and the plant's contribution to the corporate bottom line, and added more realism to the plant's results.