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  2. Profitability index - Wikipedia

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    Profitability index (PI), also known as profit investment ratio (PIR) and value investment ratio (VIR), is the ratio of payoff to investment of a proposed project.It is a useful tool for ranking projects because it allows you to quantify the amount of value created per unit of investment.

  3. Cigar Box method - Wikipedia

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    The Cigar Box Method is a toolkit which consists of a series of spreadsheets to help entrepreneurs, notably those in agribusiness in emerging markets, to calculate the costs of goods, margins, contribution, break-even quantity and profitability. It can be used for a single product or a complete portfolio of products.

  4. Profit model - Wikipedia

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    The profit model is the linear, deterministic algebraic model used implicitly by most cost accountants.Starting with, profit equals sales minus costs, it provides a structure for modeling cost elements such as materials, losses, multi-products, learning, depreciation etc.

  5. Financial statement analysis - Wikipedia

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    The liquidity index shows how quickly a company can turn assets into cash and is calculated by: (Trade receivables x Days to liquidate) + (Inventory x Days to liquidate)/Trade Receivables + Inventory. Profitability ratios are ratios that demonstrate how profitable a company is. A few popular profitability ratios are the breakeven point and ...

  6. Profitability analysis - Wikipedia

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    In order to perform a profitability analysis, all costs of an organisation have to be allocated to output units by using intermediate allocation steps and drivers. This process is called costing. When the costs have been allocated, they can be deducted from the revenues per output unit. The remainder shows the unit margin of a product, client ...

  7. Financial ratio - Wikipedia

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    Profitability ratios measure the firm's use of its assets and control of its expenses to generate an acceptable rate of return. [2] Liquidity ratios measure the availability of cash to pay debt. [3] Efficiency (activity) ratios measure how quickly a firm converts non-cash assets to cash assets. [4]

  8. The 100 Things I've Learned in Investing - AOL

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    Index ETFs may be the most wildly misused products in the stock market. They are excellent tools for ultra-low-cost buy-and-hold diversification, but many use them to day-trade the market (and ...

  9. Financial analysis - Wikipedia

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    Financial analysts often assess the following elements of a firm: Profitability - its ability to earn income and sustain growth in both the short- and long-term. A company's degree of profitability is usually based on the income statement, which reports on the company's results of operations;