Impact on financial performance by physical asset management

Abstract

Asset management, as defined in the ISO 55000 standard, enables organizations to realize value from its asset. One of the stated benefits of asset management is increased financial performance. Based on standard financial statement analysis, the paper will explain how asset management on physical assets can improve the financial performance of the organization. The paper will then propose specific measures of asset intensiveness based on data from financial statements. Organizations can use these measures to evaluate the potential impact physical asset management can have on their financial performance. Finally, the paper will present the results of a new survey of asset intensiveness grouped by industry sector. The survey is based on data from all financial statements with end of period in the year 2014 of all Danish companies. In total 187,184 financial statements published in XBRL-format, have been analysed in the survey.