BASF Transfer Price Management

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9.2.4.1.3 Transfer price
In BASF Group, Business Units are responsible for profit and for return on investment (profit centers), each reporting to an Operating Division. Products within a company of BASF Group that are supplied from one profit center to another for further processing or for sale (i.e. they leave the boundaries of the particular Business Unit or Operating Division) should as a basic rule be charged within the arm’s length principle establishing the downstream unit as a privileged partner. These supplies are therefore charged at transfer prices. Long-term effects of transfer price agreements on business developments and the strategy of upstream and downstream profit centers are taken into account in transfer pricing. BASF’s ZZ clearing desk is responsible for resolving transfer price definition and calculation disputes. As per clearing desk step wise process for calculation of transfer price is defined, which will be used for calculation of transfer pricing. The process cannot be mentioned in this thesis because of confidentiality reasons, and only a general review of approach will be explained.
BASF’s product which is under business case evaluation comes from a business unit called EV and EV is not producing the chemicals needed for BASF’s innovation chemistry by its own. Hence EV will need to source the chemical from another business unit called EM. During this the product will be charged at transfer price as per BASF transfer price guidelines. Using the ‘Transfer Price calculation method selection’ (proposed my BASF’s ZZ) we can conclude that EV will qualify for cost plus transfer pricing. Referring BASF’s recent cost plus methodology (applicable from January 2014) and adapting it to our situation it can be said ...

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...ology, but presumably they can indeed not offset the cost incurred in carbon storage. Hence overall the economics are negatively contributed (36). Although this doesn’t factor-in significantly in the growth or fall of CO2-EOR projects still it has reasonable contribution in putting a foundation for the future of such a technology.
9.2.4.4 Summary of Financial Check
For business case of CO2-EOR, the results of this stage will be as following:
• Low but positive NPV and ECV numbers.
• Long term EBIT and contribution margin positive.
• NPV sensitivity analysis shows that most sensitive factors are Selling price, transfer price and volumes. And as we see that volumes are low so evening having good contribution margin will not help.
• CO2-EOR business highly sensitive to economic drivers.
Overall financials for this project look good and can be graded as above average.

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