The financiers, while increasing their competitiveness, face the key task of elevating their business performance. Traditionally, evaluations of business performance take place mainly with reference to past fiqures and therefore fail to focus on a performance evaluation index which will exhibit both an illustrative capability and practicality in the future. With the purpose of appropriately and effectively establishing a practical business performance index, this study will utilize a balanced scorecard with its illustrative capability and four structure areas to provide a business performance index in order to assess the overall business achievement of the finance industry. This will be an important future reference for the management in the finance industry.