A Guide to Business Performance Measurements
β Scribed by Edwin Whiting BA (Econ), FCA (auth.)
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan UK
- Year
- 1986
- Tongue
- English
- Leaves
- 327
- Edition
- 1
- Category
- Library
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β¦ Synopsis
Everyone in business wants to improve their performance. But how to choose between the bewildering number of ways in which success is measured? Do you choose cash flow, added value, operating ratios? - and what kind of profit measure suits your business? This book provides you with an easy-to-follow guide covering over 50 different measurements. It explains each measure's uses and describes the situations for which it is best suited, giving you the snags and merits.
β¦ Table of Contents
Front Matter....Pages i-xiv
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Introduction....Pages 3-6
Purposes and problems of measurement....Pages 7-12
Plan of the book....Pages 13-17
Income, value and cost....Pages 18-25
Back Matter....Pages 26-26
Front Matter....Pages 27-27
Turnover....Pages 29-42
Gross margin....Pages 43-58
Value added....Pages 59-80
Operating profit....Pages 81-98
Profit after interest....Pages 99-110
Profit after taxation....Pages 111-137
All-inclusive profit....Pages 138-150
Back Matter....Pages 151-151
Front Matter....Pages 153-153
Accounting mechanics....Pages 155-162
Historic cost....Pages 163-171
Current cost....Pages 172-187
Cash flow....Pages 188-199
Funds flow....Pages 200-205
Back Matter....Pages 206-206
Front Matter....Pages 207-207
Ratios in general....Pages 209-213
Return on capital employed....Pages 214-231
Other operating ratios....Pages 232-242
Earnings per share....Pages 243-251
Back Matter....Pages 271-271
Front Matter....Pages 207-207
Productivity ratios....Pages 252-259
Strategic ratios....Pages 260-270
Back Matter....Pages 271-271
Front Matter....Pages 273-273
Businesses, industries and organisations....Pages 275-291
Motivation, philosophy and accounting....Pages 292-299
Limitations to measurement....Pages 300-306
Back Matter....Pages 307-320
β¦ Subjects
International Business; Management; Industries
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