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11/22/2015 Losses in PC and components business part of Toshiba cover up | Tech Channel MEA http://techchannelmea.com/technologyannouncements/lossespcandcomponentsbusinessparttoshibacover 1/7 TCM Search Search Losses in PC and components business part of Toshiba cover up Source: Arun Shankar Publish date: 25 Jul 2015 Print Email On 21 July, Toshiba Corporation made public the investigation report on the alleged financial irregularities from the Independent Investigation Committee. The company announced that it will analyse and examine the investigation results and recommendations received from the Independent Investigation Committee, and reflect them in the management practices, as well as examine measures to prevent recurrences. The Independent Investigation Committee pointed out the need to look at evaluation of assets and book impairment of fixed assets including the timing of impairment in the PC business, Visual Products business, and the Discrete and System LSI business in the Semiconductor business, and the need to book a valuation allowance regarding longterm deferred tax assets of the Company and its consolidated subsidiary corporations. The Company will take necessary procedures for the current financial reports based on the examination of the accounting procedures for the past financial years including the above mentioned matters, the report by the Independent Investigation Committee and the results of selfchecks by the Company, and finalize the amount of impact on past consolidated and non Top management of Toshiba at the recent July announcement. Losses suffered in PC, components, and digital business were part of the management cover up from 2008 to 2014. Home / Technology / Announcements Articles Pictures Videos Emirates airline, Dnata to enhance business with big data analytics Mubadala, GE finalise deal for joint venture in Al Ain Mahindra Comviva to extend footprint across MENA region Canon enters partnership with Cerebra Middle East Microsoft, Pacific Controls announce software platform Galaxy 2021 Read more.. Most Recent By Cisco's calculations there is shortage of 1 million security experts globally. Anthony Perridge, Security Sales Director, Cisco We have a distinct point of view here, we have no legacy architecture to protect. Michael Dell, Chairman of the Board of Directors and CEO of Dell The biggest innovation was managing growth and that is still name of the game in GCC. Wael El Kabbany, VP MENA, BT Global Services The specific partner needs to be able to have a discussion with business. Amir Sohrabi, GM Gulf Emerging Markets, SAS Middle East Read more.. Briefly Spoken Home Sign In Register TECHNOLOGY CHANNEL PARTNER PROGRAMMES NEW PRODUCTS EVENTS PEOPLE EXPERT TALK CONVERGENCE CLOUD SECURITY STORAGE MOBILITY RESEARCH & SURVEYS

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Losses in PC and components business part of Toshiba coverup

Source: Arun Shankar

Publish date:  25 Jul 2015 Print Email

On 21 July, Toshiba Corporation made public  the  investigation report  on  the  alleged  financialirregularities  from  the  Independent  Investigation  Committee.  The  company  announced  that  itwill  analyse  and  examine  the  investigation  results  and  recommendations  received  from  theIndependent Investigation Committee, and reflect them in the management practices, as well asexamine measures to prevent recurrences. 

The  Independent  Investigation Committee pointed out  the need  to  look at  evaluation of  assetsand  book  impairment  of  fixed  assets  including  the  timing  of  impairment  in  the  PC  business,Visual  Products  business,  and  the  Discrete  and  System  LSI  business  in  the  Semiconductorbusiness, and the need to book a valuation allowance regarding longterm deferred tax assets ofthe Company and its consolidated subsidiary corporations.

The  Company  will  take  necessary  procedures  for  the  current  financial  reports  based  on  theexamination  of  the  accounting  procedures  for  the  past  financial  years  including  the  abovementioned matters,  the  report  by  the  Independent  Investigation  Committee  and  the  results  ofselfchecks by  the Company, and finalize  the amount of  impact on past consolidated and non

Top management of Toshiba at the recent July announcement.

Losses suffered in PC, components, and digital business were part of the managementcover up from 2008 to 2014.

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consolidated  financial  results,  and  will  submit  by  31  August.  In  addition,  the  Company  willpromptly  make  announcements  in  relation  to  correction  of  past  fiscal  year  results  and  theconsolidated  forecast  for  the  fiscal  2014  once  these  are  finalized.  Post  the  acceptance  of  theIndependent Investigation Committee report on 21 July, a significant number of top managementexecutives also retired and were replaced.

In  summary,  successive  top managements  at  Toshiba  devised  accounting  procedures  to  coveradditive and mounting losses triggered first by the global financial meltdown of 2008 and 2009,then  by  the  economic  disaster  of  the  Japanese  Tsunami  of  2012,  and  running  parallel  thedisruptive  end of  the PC and older  digital  life  cycle  triggered partly  by  the Third Platform oftechnologies,  namely  mobility,  cloud,  social  and  analytics.  The  findings  of  the  IndependentInvestigation Committee made public on 21 July point to under reporting of losses by successivemanagements of the order of ¥151.8 trillion, $1.23 billion, from 2008 to 2014, partly across thelifestyle  products  and  services  business  and  electronic  devices  and  components  business.  Thefinancial year ending 2012 carries the largest irregularity of ¥85.8 trillion, $0.69 billion. 

The initial whistle blower of January 2015, Seiya Shimaoka an internal auditor at Toshiba, firstdrew attention to the corporate accounting irregularities by asking external auditors to relook atthe accounting  records of  the PC business. As  far back as 2008, Atsutoshi Nishidia, Presidentand CEO of Toshiba at the time, refused to publish the losses as they had started accumulatingand  converted  them  into  a  profit  statement,  according  to  the  findings  of  the  IndependentInvestigation Committee, and reported by Financial Times.  

The  reasons  for  the  business  losses  in  the  electronic  devices  and  components  and  lifestyleproducts  and  services  business,  can  be  appreciated  by  the  overall  sales  model  and  operatingincome  margins.  Toshiba’s  is  a  story  of  slender  margins,  strong  demands  for  technologyinnovation, and rapidly changing cycles of business and consumer appetite.

Toshiba’s  global  business  today  consists  of  the  five  divisions  including  energy  andinfrastructure,  community  solutions,  health  care  systems  and  services,  electronic  devices  andcomponents, lifestyle products and services. The two ICT driven segments including electronicdevices and components and lifestyle products and services, once contributed 53% of total salesin 2003, with a peak of 57% in 2006, declining to 42% in 2014.

Toshiba’s global business has been close  to a  flat CAGR growth of 1.6% from 2003  to 2014,growing from ¥5.44 trillion to ¥6.50 trillion, or $52.5 billion in 2014 at current exchange rates.Its operating income, that is net sales less cost of sales, has been at a better CAGR of close to 9%from  2003  to  2014,  growing  from  ¥0.12  trillion  in  2003  to  ¥0.29  trillion  in  2014.  But  theoperating income margin for the global manufacturer has been slender, increasing from 2.1% in2004 to 4.5% in 2014. The overall slender operating income margin for the global business hasmeant that its business divisions themselves have swung marginally between profit and loss overthe years.

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Toshiba’s global business has been growing from ¥5.44 trillion to ¥6.50 trillion from 2003 to 2014.  Its operatingincome, that is net sales less cost of sales, has been growing from ¥0.12 trillion in 2003 to ¥0.29 trillion in 2014.Source: Toshiba Annual Reports

The  two  divisions  that  are  driven  by  the  ICT  industry  and  ICT  technologies  including  thelifestyle products and  services business and electronic devices and components business, haveshown varying degrees of financial and business success.

The  electronic  devices  and  components  business  including  flash  memory,  HDD,  storage  andcomponents has been consistent in its contribution to the overall sales. It used to contribute closeto 20% of overall sales in 2003 and now contributes close to 24% in 2014. Its operating incomemargin  has  increased  significantly  from 2.5%  in  2003  to  14.1%  in  2014.  Its  sales CAGR hasbeen impressive at 20% from 2003 to 2014. 

The  lifestyle  products  and  services  business  consisting  of  PCs,  visual  products,  and  homeappliances used to contribute close to 33% of overall sales in 2003 and now contributes close to19% of overall sales. Its operating income margin has shrunk significantly from 1% in 2003 toloss making margin of negative 4%  in 2014.  Its  sales CAGR has been negative  from 2003  to2014.

Prior to 2014 and as far back as 2007, the lifestyle products and services business, was called thedigital products business and consisted of mobile communications, digital media networks andpersonal  computers  and  networks.  Similarly  in  2007,  the  electronic  devices  and  componentsbusiness consisted of semiconductors, display devices and components control.

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The operating income margin for the electronic devices and components business has increased significantly from2.5% in 2003 to 14.1% in 2014. Its sales CAGR has been impressive at 20% from 2003 to 2014. The operatingincome margin  for  the  lifestyle products and services business has shrunk significantly  from 1% in 2003  to  lossmaking margin of negative 4% in 2014. Its sales CAGR has been negative from 2003 to 2014. Source: ToshibaAnnual Reports

At  multiple  IT  forums,  global  research  companies  IDC  and  Gartner  have  pointed  to  theincreasing  disruptive  challenges  likely  to  be  faced  by  traditional  PC  vendor  companies.  “Incomparison  to  the  last 4050 years,  the  changes  in  IT  spending  today are being  influenced byconsumerism,  which  moves  at  a  much  faster  pace  than  business  investment  cycles.  Anycustomer facing services and products are more likely to see accelerated changes,” commentedPeter Sondergaard, Senior Vice President and Global Head of Research Gartner, as far back as2013,  at  the  Gartner  CIO  Symposium  in  UAE.  “However  during  the  interim  period,  you  arenever  going  to  see  a  large  technology  provider  suddenly  drop  off  the  cliff.  And  some  willstruggle and others will thrive” 

“2014 will  see  the emergence of  two  IT markets. One of  the  IT markets  is  aligned  to what  iscalled the second platform of opportunity of  traditional  industry, which is stagnating and quiteoften declining. And the other is aligned to the third platform industry where there is substantialgrowth.  The  third  platform  will  cannibalise  the  growth  of  the  second  platform  in  2014  andbeyond.  Spending  and  value  will  rapidly  shift  away  from  traditional  product  and  servicecategories  into  third platform technologies, services and solutions. Third platform technologiesand solutions will dominate growth  in 2014, and beyond,” mentioned Steven Frantzen, SeniorVice President EMEA, IDC, during IDC’s Direction 2014 briefing.  

Toshiba  is  trying  to  bring  back  profitability  in  2015  by  focussing  on  three  key  areas  –  datastorage, healthcare and energy.  It  is attempting  to revive  innovation by an  internal programmecalled Project Gain, which is an out of the box approach to review productivity processes.

Toshiba’s electronic devices and components business today includes flash servers and storage,hard disk drives, NAND flash,  floating gate  technology, discrete and system LSI, 3D memoryproduction.  Production  requirements  for  the  Internet  of Things  including wearables  and  smartdevices will  be  part  of  this  business  segment  in  the  future.  The  division will  also  look  at  therequirements of the enterprise. Recent innovations include 19 nm process technology for the 64gigabit  NAND  flash  memory  in  collaboration  with  Sandisk,  hybrid  storage  array  for  cloud

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platforms, and development of 5 TB HDD. The sales of this division is expected to grow from¥1.69 trillion in 2014 to ¥2.2 trillion in 2016, as mentioned in the 2014 Annual Report, with yearending 31 March.

In June 2015, Toshiba and Microsoft announced the two companies have signed a Memorandumof Understanding  to  jointly develop solutions  for  the  Internet of Things. Leveraging Toshiba’sIoT devices with Microsoft’s Azure IoT Cloud infrastructure, Toshiba will deliver sensordatadriven  applications  in  various  market  segments  starting  in  calendar  year  2015.  In  thispartnership, Toshiba will provide X as a Service Xaas making use of  its  inhouse technologiessuch  as  ApP  LiteTM,  invehicle  driving  recorders,  sensors  and  cloud  storage  services  andMicrosoft will  provide  IaaS,  private  line  services  and  advanced  analytics  as  part  of MicrosoftAzure.

Toshiba  and  Microsoft  announced  they  will  offer  IoT  enterprise  solutions,  starting  with  thetransportation and logistics market in calendar year 2015, by delivering IoT devices and XaaS,utilising scalable, costeffective services and technologies combined with better user experience.

Toshiba’s  global  business  today  consists  of  the  five  divisions  including  energy  and  infrastructure,  communitysolutions, health care systems and services, electronic devices and components,  lifestyle products and services.The  two  ICT driven segments  including electronic devices and components and  lifestyle products and servicesonce contributed 53% of total sales in 2003, and in 2014 the contribution declined to 42%. Source: Toshiba AnnualReports

Toshiba’s  lifestyle  product  and  services  business  today  includes  home  appliances,  visualproducts and PCs. The company plans to increase the profitability of the division by focussingon the business and enterprise segment, security and HDD solutions, and IoT solutions. Recentinnovations  include  Cinema  4K  image  quality,  Android  OS  LCD  TV,  Toshiba  Smart  ClientManager,  Dynabook  Kira  with  WQHD  LCD  touch  panel,  and  the  Toshiba  Direct  onlineshopping site. The sales of this division is expected to grow from ¥1.31 trillion in 2014 to ¥1.4trillion in 2016, as mentioned in the 2014 Annual Report, with year ending 31 March.

Earlier  in  the year, Toshiba  and  its  subsidiary, Toshiba Lifestyle Products  and Services Corp,announced they will undertake a restructuring of Toshiba’s Visual Products business by ceasingTV development and sales operations in North America and licensing the North American TVbusiness to Taiwan’s Compal Electronics. Toshiba also announced its intention to transform itsconsumer TV business in regions other than Japan, replacing own development and sales with abrand licensing structure.

However  Toshiba  still  faces  the  challenge  of  rebuilding  a  culture  of  internal  innovation  andcreativity that is competitive against the fast changing external disruptive environment, in whichit was once a front runner ten years ago. 

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