ROI for the Manufacturing Plants
Continuing the company's ROI strategy, each manufacturing plant within the three product divisions had an annual ROI target to meet. Each product division's oEM sales that made the were traced to the plants parts. The plants maintained finished goods inventories and shipped parts directly to oEM customers. A plant's ROI target was based on budgeted profit including allocations 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 an example of the Rochester plant's actual 1992 ROI computation. Actual ROI was actual profit divided by actual beginning of the year 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 co of doing business and the plant's contribution to the corporate bottom line, and added more realism to the plant's results.