This one-Day Workshop provides participants with an insight into and an understanding of the nature, role and operation of the assessment of divisional performance within organizations. It delivers the requisite knowledge, understanding and skills to recognize issues inherent within the process, and a range of potential solutions. It equips managers with the ability to assess divisional performance and make appropriate consequential decisions.

1.      Types of divisional structures;

2.      Advantages of divisionalisation;

3.      Role of Head Office;

4.      Responsibility issues;

5.      Return on Investment (ROI);

6.      Residual Income (RI);

7.      Comparing ROI and RI;

8.      Case scenario;

9.      Review.

This Workshop enables participants to understand and manage in a divisional environment. It provides insights into approaches to the measurement of divisional performance. In so doing, it identifies the challenges implicit within such assessment. Specifically, the intended outcomes are to:

·        Understand the nature, role and purpose of divisional performance assessment;

·        Identify and apply a range of techniques commonly used in divisional performance assessment;

·        Recognize the advantages and disadvantages of divisional performance assessment techniques, and the implications for management;

·        Understand the managerial behavioral dimensions of divisional performance assessment.

 

This one day Workshop is for all managers who are interested in gaining an understanding of the theory and application of the assessment of the performance of divisions within organizations structured on a divisional basis.

 

 

Alan is a qualified accountant (FCCA and ACMA) with a Doctorate in Education (Institute of Education-IOE, University of London), a Masters Degree in Business (City University Business School, London). He is Director of Studies in the Department of Management Science and Innovation at University College London (UCL), and Visiting Professor in Managerial Accounting on the SIMBA Program at Tongji University, Shanghai. In the past he has been Head of The Centre for Financial Management at The Open University Business School, Head of School of Accounting & Taxation at South Bank Polytechnic, and Director of Accounting Studies at Hatfield Polytechnic. Alan has a wealth of experience of real world finance issues and solutions and communicating them to managers.

 

Dates: November 6, 2013 from 8;30 a.m to 5;30 p.m.

Fees: 4,500 RMB (covers tuition, case materials and lunches)

Language: English (with Chinese translation)

Venue: Tongji University EDP Center, 1 ZhangwuLu, Shanghai

Deadline for registration: September 21, 2013. You should register as soon as possible heresince the number of participants is limited and demand is high.

Payment: No payment is due until you have received confirmation of your admission. Payment is due 15 days before the Workshop and refund in case of non-show is limited to 50% of the fees.