• Skip to primary navigation
  • Skip to main content
  • Skip to primary sidebar
Free ACCA & CIMA online courses from OpenTuition

Free ACCA & CIMA online courses from OpenTuition

Free Notes, Lectures, Tests and Forums for ACCA and CIMA exams

  • ACCA
  • CIMA
  • FIA
  • OBU
  • Books
  • Forums
  • Ask AI
  • Search
  • Register
  • Login
  • ACCA Forums
  • Ask ACCA Tutor
  • CIMA Forums
  • Ask CIMA Tutor
  • FIA
  • OBU
  • Buy/Sell Books
  • All Forums
  • Latest Topics

20% off ACCA & CIMA Books

OpenTuition recommends the new interactive BPP books for September 2025 exams.
Get your discount code >>

Transger Price Goal Congurence

Forums › Ask ACCA Tutor Forums › Ask the Tutor ACCA PM Exams › Transger Price Goal Congurence

  • This topic has 1 reply, 2 voices, and was last updated 3 years ago by John Moffat.
Viewing 2 posts - 1 through 2 (of 2 total)
  • Author
    Posts
  • October 9, 2021 at 12:33 pm #637343
    John1998m
    Participant
    • Topics: 73
    • Replies: 40
    • ☆☆

    This question is regarding Transfer Pricing:

    Is it correct that to obtain “Goal Congruence” managers should have the same goal to optimize the profits for a company as a whole rather than their own divisional profits and they should continue making a product if it is profitable for a company overall even though one division is profitable and other is not?

    Managers have to deal with the loss-making products because it is in the company’s interest overall but isn’t it conflicting with the divisionalization concept where managers have full autonomy to make decisions on their own?

    So how should we achieve goal congruence in this situation?

    October 9, 2021 at 2:22 pm #637349
    John Moffat
    Keymaster
    • Topics: 57
    • Replies: 54696
    • ☆☆☆☆☆

    The whole purpose of ‘sensible’ transfer pricing is so that if the product is profitable for the company as a whole, then both managers should be motivated to deal in the product. The transfer price should therefore be in a range that will result in each division showing a profit.

    That is goal congruence – that the transfer price motivates both divisions to do what is also best for the company as a whole.

    It seems that you cannot have watched my free lectures on transfer pricing because I explain this point in detail, with lots of examples.

  • Author
    Posts
Viewing 2 posts - 1 through 2 (of 2 total)
  • You must be logged in to reply to this topic.
Log In

Primary Sidebar

Donate
If you have benefited from our materials, please donate

ACCA News:

ACCA My Exam Performance for non-variant

Applied Skills exams is available NOW

ACCA Options:  “Read the Mind of the Marker” articles

Subscribe to ACCA’s Student Accountant Direct

ACCA CBE 2025 Exams

How was your exam, and what was the exam result?

BT CBE exam was.. | MA CBE exam was..
FA CBE exam was.. | LW CBE exam was..

Donate

If you have benefited from OpenTuition please donate.

PQ Magazine

Latest Comments

  • dkessilfie on FM Chapter 1 Questions – Financial management objectives
  • ahmadhoney on ACCA Advanced Audit and Assurance (AAA) The Audit Report 3: Types of Audit Report
  • Bimasha@123 on Discounted Cash Flow Techniques – ACCA Advanced Performance Management (APM)
  • Ken Garrett on Discounted Cash Flow Techniques – ACCA Advanced Performance Management (APM)
  • Bimasha@123 on Discounted Cash Flow Techniques – ACCA Advanced Performance Management (APM)

Copyright © 2025 · Support · Contact · Advertising · OpenLicense · About · Sitemap · Comments · Log in