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New Financial And Statistical Measures To Monitor The Success Of GE
New Financial and Statistical Measures to Monitor The Success of GE New Financial and Statistical Measures to Monitor The Success of GE To : The Board of Directors, GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY Subject : NEW FINANCIAL AND STATISTICAL MEASURES TO MONITOR THE SUCCESS OF GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY After Mr. Weltch announced my new assignment, I pondered how I could go about guaranteeing the best possible result: a creditable and well organized work that is going to help you, the Board of Directors, plan for the future of the company in a better way. Before starting my analysis, I must specify that my target is not to abolish the traditionally used financial and statistical measures but to develop new ones to be used as guidance for the corporation's future development. Our Chairman recently wrote that "the hottest trend in business in 1995 -- and the one that hit closest to home -- is the rush toward breaking up multi- business companies and spinning off their components, under the theory that their size and diversity inhibited their competitiveness ... breaking up is the right answer for some big companies ... for us it is the wrong answer.²1 For us the new trend is the entrance into the service industry. The question must then be: is this the right answer? GE is expecting to increase its revenue by the year 2000 to $120 billion compared with $58 billion in 1990. In other words, if the forecast proves to be correct, it will obtain an average annual rate of growth of 7.5%. This high rate is mainly attributed to the expansion of the services sector of the company, which is estimated to increase by an average annual rate of 13% compared with a corresponding one of 2.1% for manufacturing. Today nearly 60% of GE's profits comes from services -- up from 16.4% in 1980.2 This is our new direction and therefore my target is to find these measures that are going to help us understand how the business is going to perform in that particular field. I also consider that our attempt to expand internationally is extremely important and in a way is something new for us. International operating profit was $3.0 billion for 1995 compared with $2.3 billion in 1993.3 This extremely rapid expansion hides a lot of dangers, and at the same time shows another new "trend" of our corporation. In my analysis I will include the international sector. I will also narrow in on employees, stockholders, goodwill and on potential investors. 1) MIEC (Manufacturing Industry Expenses Comparison) As we know, the basic organization of the company Œs continuing operations consists of 12 key businesses, which contain management units of different sizes.4 From these only three are specified in the service field, including: (a) Capital Service, (b) NBC, and (c) Information Service. On the other hand, the manufacturing industry is divided into nine different segments, some of which will be mentioned later. Although it is not our main concern, the manufacturing segment of GE can be used as the yardstick for the success of the service industry. This is so because this sector of General Electric has been extremely successful and very well established during the past few years. Almost $40,000 million in revenue and almost $9,110 million in profit came this year from manufacturing operations.5 We know that what we have achieved in manufacturing is success. So the question that arises is why should we stop investing in "success" and enter a completely different field. The first measure which we are going to analyze in this part of the discussion attempts to answer that question. MIEC, the manufacturing industry expenses comparison, compares the amount of money spent for the service industry to the expenses made for the manufacturing industry. Thus it is equal to : Expenses made for the service industry MIEC = -------------------- Expenses made for the manufacturing industry Therefore, according to the financial statements of the previous years we would have6: MIEC 1992 = 15842/29991= 0.52 MIEC 1993 = 18560/30657= ...This is ONLY a preview of the article. If you would like to view the entire document, you must subscribe to Electronic References. Please register below now! Get This Full Article After Registration
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