This week’s topics
Financial and Non-Financial Operational Metrics
- Single-factor and multi-factor productivity indices
- Overall equipment effectiveness (OEE)
- Total cost of ownership (TCO)
- Cash-to-cash conversion cycle and working capital efficiency
- Week 03: Lecture 12: Interface between Operations & Finance
- Operating Cycle vs. Cash Conversion Cycle | Financial Statement Analysis
What you will be able to do
- 2.2 Evaluate various financial, non-financial, single and multi-factor performance measures applicable to organisations.
Activity
Start with this week’s 2 videos, then: Seminar, guided reading and a short written task: evaluate various financial, non-financial, single and multi-factor performance measures applicable to organisations.
Study materials
Videos
- Operating Cycle vs. Cash Conversion Cycle | Financial Statement Analysis · YouTube · Edspira · 7 min · for registered students
- Measuring Business Performance · YouTube · Galton College · 28 min · for registered students
- Lecture 2 Competitiveness, Strategy, and Productivity · YouTube · Eddy Witzel · 36 min · for registered students
- Non-Financial Performance Measurement - ACCA Advanced Performance Management (APM) · YouTube · OpenTuition · 18 min · for registered students
- CIMA P2 Financial Performance Measurement · YouTube · OpenTuition · 45 min · for registered students
Further resources
- Operations Management (Fanshawe), ch. 2: Operations Strategy & Competitiveness · Reading · Other, textbook chapter; PDF pp. 53–84 · for registered students
- Should Cost Modelling guidance note (UK Government Commercial Function) · PDF · GOV.UK, guidance; 24 pages · for registered students
- Principles of Finance 2e, ch. 19: The Importance of Trade Credit and Working Capital in Planning · PDF · OpenStax, textbook chapter; pp. 567–598 · for registered students
Materials marked “for registered students” open in the student portal, which is set up as soon as you receive final acceptance.