A Guide to Business Performance MeasurementsEveryone 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. |
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PURPOSES AND PROBLEMS OF MEASUREMENT | 7 |
PLAN OF THE BOOK | 15 |
References | 26 |
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accounting profit accounting standard all-inclusive profit allocation amount asset base balance sheet Bases of accounting business performance capital allowances capital employed capital expenditure capitalised cash flow statement cent Chapter company accounts compared cost basis cost of sales cost profit creditors current cost accounting debtors deducted deferred tax deferred taxation definition dividend divisional accounts divisions employees employment cost equity example extraordinary items fixed assets funds flow gearing adjustment goodwill gross margin group relief historic cost included income increase inflation Inflation Accounting liabilities loans long-term lorry loss account materials measure of performance method objective operating cash flow operating profit organisations paid pension performance measurement period PRINTAPRESS plc problems Profit after interest profit after taxation profit and loss published accounts purchased replacement cost ROCE shareholders short-term SSAP stock valuation stocks and work-in-progress surplus ACT tax charge taxable profit transfer prices trouble spot turnover value added statement