Data processing: financial – business practice – management – or co – Automated electrical financial or business practice or... – Finance
Reexamination Certificate
2008-01-31
2011-11-22
Cheung, Mary (Department: 3667)
Data processing: financial, business practice, management, or co
Automated electrical financial or business practice or...
Finance
C705S03600T, C705S037000
Reexamination Certificate
active
08065210
ABSTRACT:
A computer-implemented method for analyzing the relative performance of a business unit includes: receiving financial data about the business unit; determining NOPLAT, revenue, capital charge, and invested capital values for the business unit at a first time and a second time from the financial data; determining at least two data points including a first component indicative of NOPLAT/revenue and a second component indicative of revenue/capital charge for the business unit, the at least two data points indicative of values determined at one of the first time and the second time, respectively; and displaying the at least two data points, a first indicia for each data point indicative of the capital value, a second indicia indicative of a spread percentage, and a third indicia indicative of a relationship between the at least two data points between the first time and the second time.
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Ballow John J.
McCarthy Brian F.
Relvas Anthony J.
Accenture Global Services Limited
Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione
Cheung Mary
Greene Daniel L
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