Performance Reports for Responsibility Centres Are Sometimes Designed to Change

question 190

True/False

Performance reports for responsibility centres are sometimes designed to change managers' behaviour in the direction top management desires even if the reports decrease controllability.

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Definitions:

Sharpe Measure

A metric for calculating risk-adjusted return, measuring excess return per unit of deviation in an investment.

S&P 500 Index

A stock market index that measures the stock performance of 500 large companies listed on stock exchanges in the United States, often used as a gauge of the overall health of the US stock market.

Sharpe Measure

A metric used to assess the risk-adjusted return of an investment, comparing its excess returns to the volatility experienced.

Residual Standard Deviation

A statistical measure of the amount of variance in investment returns not explained by the beta in the Capital Asset Pricing Model (CAPM).