Many leading finance organizations assess their current role in supporting mission objectives by comparing the percentage of staff time spent on strategic support activities, such as business performance analysis or cost analysis, with the percentage of resources spent on transaction processing and other routine accounting activities.
Using only a few metrics, this method doesn't work at all. 
mnli hypothesis: Using only a few metrics, this method doesn't work at all.  premise: Many leading finance organizations assess their current role in supporting mission objectives by comparing the percentage of staff time spent on strategic support activities, such as business performance analysis or cost analysis, with the percentage of resources spent on transaction processing and other routine accounting activities.