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(ii) Disadvantages of an EVA approach to the measurement of financial performance include:
(i) The calculation of EVA may be complicated due to the number of adjustments required.
(ii) It is difficult to use EVA for inter-firm and inter-divisional comparisons because it is not a ratio measure.
(iii) Economic depreciation is difficult to estimate and conflicts with generally accepted accounting principles.
Note: Other relevant discussion would be acceptable.

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(d) The change in ownership represents a major change in the life of any organisation and the opportunity to convince the various
stakeholders of the strategic direction the firm is going in should not be missed. Mission statements are not something that
can be created at five minutes notice and once created need to be revisited to ensure they are still relevant and engaging.
Some experts argue that the mission can only be developed once the firm’s competitive strategy has been developed. Others
argue that it is the starting point for the whole strategic planning process.
A mission statement expresses the purpose of the business and great care will need to be taken to clarify the new role and
status of the buyout directors. Two other critical stakeholders are the workforce and the customers – alienation of either group
will have serious consequences for the firm. Customers need to be convinced that they should stay with the firm and staff
that there is a future for them in the new set up. Bonar Paint needs to ensure that its reputation for customer care is part of
the statement.
The strategy of the firm in terms of where and how it is going to compete again should create confidence in the key
stakeholders. Developing this clear sense of where Bonar Paint is going and how it is going to get there will be of particular
interest to its financial backers. Expressing the mission of the business will be a key part of any business plan. Bonar Paint
may also choose to emphasise the standards of behaviour that will underpin the way it does business. This may include an
explicit commitment to innovative products and customer service. Once again the impact and relevance to both internal and
external stakeholders is important.
Finally, the buyout managers have to convince stakeholders that the culture and values associated with that culture will be
retained after the change in ownership. Bonar Paint, under the Bonar brothers’ ownership and direction, did not feel that
strategic planning was a necessary activity. A succinct and meaningful mission statement may be an excellent way to
communicate the new ownership and sense of purpose in Bonar Paint.
Creating mission statements that convey a sense of purpose may not be easy for the buyout team. The time spent creating
the statement has to have positive outcomes or it will be time wasted. Creating such a statement with no previous experience
increases the difficulties. Seeing it as an integral part of a strategic planning process is important. Care must be taken to
involve other stakeholders in the process or statements may be made with little meaning for them. The degree of involvement
is also significant; most stakeholders are more likely to be useful as ‘sounding boards’ for testing and refining the statement.
The danger is that a statement is produced that few stakeholders buy into and does not affect attitudes or behaviours towardBonar Paint.

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(a) (i) In order to facilitate BAG profit maximising decisions the following strategy should apply:
Division C should offer to transfer chemical CC to Division B at marginal cost plus opportunity cost. This would apply
as follows:
– 40,000 kilograms of CC at $105 per kilogram since this is the price that could be achieved from sales to external
customers of BAG.
– 60,000 kilograms of CC at marginal cost of $50 per kilogram since no alternative opportunity exists.
Division B has a sales forecast of 360,000 litres of product BF. This will require 360,000/4 = 90,000 kilograms of
chemical CC input.
Based on the pricing by Division C indicated above, Division B would choose to purchase 60,000 kilograms of CC from
Division C at $50 per kilogram, since this is less than the $55 per kilogram quoted by the independent supplier.
Division B would purchase its remaining requirement for 30,000 kilograms of CC from the independent supplier at $55
per kilogram since this is less than the $105 per kilogram at which Division C would offer to transfer its remaining output
– given that it can sell the residual output to external customers of BAG.