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Allianz Italy, $7-$Eleven, Wells Fargo Bank, Ford Motor Company, Verizon, ExxonMobil, Pfizer, DuPont, Royal Canadian Mounted Police, and U$.$S$.$ Army Medical are examples of companies that have adopted the balanced scorecard in order to

a$.$ preclude the drive for achieving financial objectives from weakening the attention paid to social responsibility, community citizenship, and other worthy goals.

b$.$ put equal emphasis on the achievement of financial objectives, strategic objectives, and social responsibility objectives.

c$.$ prevent the pursuit of strategic objectives from dominating the pursuit of financial objectives.

d$.$ balance the pursuit of good bottom$-$line profit against the pursuit of nonprofit objectives $($although achieving profitability targets is nearly always given greater emphasis$).$

$$ e$.$ set both financial and strategic objectives and put balanced emphasis on their achievement.