Message-ID: <25772740.1075844284258.JavaMail.evans@thyme> Date: Wed, 22 Nov 2000 03:12:00 -0800 (PST) From: tod.lindholm@enron.com To: rod.hayslett@enron.com Subject: Re: Capital Charge and Calculating Return on Invested Capital Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-From: Tod A Lindholm X-To: Rod Hayslett X-cc: X-bcc: X-Folder: \Rodney_Hayslett_Dec2000\Notes Folders\All documents X-Origin: HAYSLETT-R X-FileName: rhaysle.nsf Since ETS has third party debt on it's books, the debt and cost of carry will be excluded from the calculation so as not to double count. Rick wants it to actualy be booked. I lean towards just calculating it and not actually make entries (I know that entries will cause all sorts of additional issues). Nothing has been formalized yet. Rod Hayslett 11/22/2000 11:01 AM To: Tod A Lindholm/NA/Enron@Enron cc: Subject: Re: Capital Charge and Calculating Return on Invested Capital What do we do with debt on the books of the entities? Ignore it? And my understanding is that this will not be used for actual booking of anything in the books, Tod A Lindholm 11/22/2000 10:31 AM To: Wes Colwell/HOU/ECT@ECT, Fernley Dyson/LON/ECT@ECT, Kevin Hughes/HOU/EES@EES, Rod Hayslett/FGT/Enron@ENRON, John Echols/Enron Communications@Enron Communications, Mark E Lindsey/GPGFIN/Enron@ENRON, Sally Beck/HOU/ECT@ECT, Brent A Price/HOU/ECT@ECT, Kent Castleman/NA/Enron@Enron, Jeffrey E Sommers/ENRON_DEVELOPMENT@ENRON_DEVELOPMENT, Carol Howes/ENRON_DEVELOPMENT@ENRON_DEVELOPMENT, Howard Selzer/Corp/Enron@ENRON, Keith Marlow/ENRON_DEVELOPMENT@ENRON_DEVELOPMENT, Dave Gunther/NA/Enron@Enron, Kenny Bickett/HOU/AZURIX@AZURIX, MARY TURINA/ENRON@enronxgate, Barry Schnapper/Corp/Enron@Enron, Paul Chivers/LON/ECT@ECT, Rob G Gay/NA/Enron@Enron, Jeremy Thirsk/SIN/ECT@ECT, Ananda Mukerji/ENRON_DEVELOPMENT@ENRON_DEVELOPMENT, Stephen H Friedlander/EWC/Enron@Enron, Joseph Deffner/HOU/ECT@ECT, Larry Derrett/HOU/EES@EES, Kevin Howard/Enron Communications@Enron Communications, Michael Anderson/HOU/AZURIX@AZURIX, Bill W Brown/HOU/ECT@ECT cc: Richard Causey/Corp/Enron@ENRON, Ben F Glisan/HOU/ECT@ECT, Mary Perkins/HOU/ECT@ECT, Tim DeSpain/HOU/ECT@ECT, Jordan Mintz/HOU/ECT@ECT, Bob Butts/GPGFIN/Enron@ENRON, Wanda Curry/HOU/EES@EES, Mary Lynne Ruffer/HOU/ECT@ECT, Maroun J Abboudy/LON/ECT@ECT, Mike Deville/HOU/ECT@ECT Subject: Capital Charge and Calculating Return on Invested Capital Over the last few months, we have been working on a new methodology to measure and report business unit's retrurns on invested capital. Several different variations were considered, and I am glad to report that Skilling, Causey and Fastow have approved the process outlined here. Simply stated (with an example shown below): Return on equity will be calculated based on a pre-determined debt/equity structure. Business unit capital will include both on-balance sheet and off-balance sheet uses of capital and business unit's will be charged for the cost of their debt at Enron's cost of funds. Business unit's should focus on improving their return on equity over time. ______________________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________ This metric will not replace other targets (i.e., IBIT and Funds Flow). We are currently working to overlay this approach to the submitted 2001 Plans. If you have questions, please contact myself or Mike Deville.