Responsibility
Accounting
Return on Investment (ROI)
Components
of ROI
Criticisms
of ROI
100

The responsibility accounting systems link...

What are lower-level managers' decision making authority with accountability for outcomes?

100

The formula for ROI...

What is net operating income (NOI)/average operating assets?

100

The two components of ROI are...

What are Margin and Turnover?

100

True or False?

ROI is best used alone

What is false?

This is better used as a component to the balanced scorecard, not as an individual entity.

200
The three components of the responsibility accounting are...

What are cost centers, profit centers, and investment centers?

200

Alpha's ROI from this data is ...

Sales $232,500

NOI $13,950

Average Operating Assets: $386,000

What is 3.61%?


NOI (13,950) / Average Operating (386,000)

200

The Margin formula is ...

What is Net Operating Income (NOI)/Sales?

200

ROI is used to evaluate the responsibility center...

What is investment center performance?

300

In a cost center, a manager has control over...

What are costs, but NOT revenue or investments?


examples include:accounting, general administration, legal, personnel, and manufacturing facilities.

300

Bravo's ROI from this data is ...

Sales $307,500

NOI $36,900

Average Operating Assets: $123,000

What is 30%?


NOI (36,900) / Average Operating (123,000)

300

The Turnover formula is...

What is Sales/Average Operating Assets?

300

Using ROI to assess managers who takeover a business segment can be hard because...

What is they typically inherit many committed costs over which they have no control over.


It is harder to assess the manager relative to other managers.

400

In a profit center, a manger has control over...

What are BOTH costs and revenue?

- evaluated comparing actual to targeted or budgeted profit

400

Charli's ROI from this data is ...

Sales $215,000

NOI $47,300

Average Operating Assets: $215,000

What is 22%?

NOI (47,300) / Average Operating (215,000)

400

The formula for ROI using these two components is...

What is Margin x Turnover?


NOI/sales*sales/average operating assets

400

A manager evaluating simply on ROI may...

What is reject investment opportunities profitable for the whole company but not the specific segment?

500

In an investment center, the manager has control over...

What are cost, revenue, and investments?

- they are evaluated used return on investment (ROI) or residual income.

500

If Charli's NOI increase by $40,000, inventory increases by $25,000, and cash increase by $15,000, what is the change in ROI from their original data?

Sales $215,000

NOI $47,300

Average Operating Assets: $215,000

What is 12.24 %?

New NOI $87,300

New Average Operating Assets: $255,000

New ROI = 34.24%

Old ROI = 22%

500

Using the data below, the margin, turnover, and ROI for this company is ...

Sales: $7,600,000

Net Operating Income: $810,000

Average Operating Assets: $11,200,000

What is margin of 10.66%

What is turnover of .68?

What is ROI of 7.25%?

500

The main component of criticism of ROI is...

What is it does not account for the company as a whole or company objectives?