Edwin Whiting

A Guide to Business Performance Measurements

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan / Palgrave Macmillan UK / Springer Palgrave Macmillan
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 978-0-333-37416-0
• 1986
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. Februar 1986
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 506g
• ISBN-13: 9780333374160
• ISBN-10: 0333374169
• Artikelnr.: 44538517

Inhaltsangabe

Preface - PART 1 OBJECTIVES AND SCOPE - Introduction - Purposes and Problems - Plan of the Book - Income, Value and Cost - PART 2 THE MEASURES IN DETAIL - Turnover - Gross Margin - Value Added - Operating Profit - Profit after Interest - Profit after Taxation - All-Inclusive Profit - PART 3 BASES OF ACCOUNTING - Accounting Mechanics - Historic Cost - Current Cost - Cash Flow - Funds Flow - PART 4 PERFORMANCE RATIOS - Ratios in General - Return on Capital Employed - Other Operating Ratios - Earnings per Share - Productivity Ratios - Strategic Ratios - PART 5 BUSINESS TYPES AND STYLES - Businesses, Industries and Organisations - Motivation, Philosophy and Accounting - Limitations to Measurement - Bibliography - Index