How to Measure Individual Managers Performance

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1.0 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY 1
2.0 INTRODUCTION 2
3.0 PERFORMANCE MEASURES 3
3.1 Performance measures for Cost Centre Management 3
3.2 Performance measures for Profit Centre Management 3
3.3 Performance measures for Investment Centre Management 4
4.0 CONCLUSION 5
5.0 COSTING SYSTEMS 6
5.1 Marginal/ Variable Costing 6
5.2 Full or Absorption costing 7
5.3 Activity Based Costing 8
6.0 REFERENCES 10

1.0 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

As Financial Director for a large multinational company operating its business in 20 countries around the world the task of assessing different ways to measure the performance of individual manager who each has responsibly for one part of the portfolio was assigned. To do this an audit was carried out at several different centres that played a major role in how the company was run and managed on a daily basis. I looked at the different methods used of evaluating the individual managers who were responsible for different parts of the portfolio and how their decisions affected the success of the organisation in order to maximise profitability.
To maximise profitability it was very important to consider in such a diverse environment the best way to organize and plan their activity and resources. After evaluation of all the different methods of measuring performance using the three approaches it was clearly seen that in such environment no one way is suitable for measuring performance and a combination of approaches would be best suited according to the operational and environmental setting of the organisation.
The departments were also given the responsiblity for costing products and services in order to make better decisions. In this case we consider different costing systems and looked at act...

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