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  2. Financial ratio - Wikipedia

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    A financial ratio or accounting ratio states the relative magnitude of two selected numerical values taken from an enterprise's financial statements. Often used in accounting, there are many standard ratios used to try to evaluate the overall financial condition of a corporation or other organization. Financial ratios may be used by managers ...

  3. Return on investment - Wikipedia

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    Return on investment (ROI) or return on costs (ROC) is the ratio between net income (over a period) and investment (costs resulting from an investment of some resources at a point in time). A high ROI means the investment's gains compare favourably to its cost. As a performance measure, ROI is used to evaluate the efficiency of an investment or ...

  4. Earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization

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    v. t. e. A company 's earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization (commonly abbreviated EBITDA, [1] pronounced / ˈiːbɪtdɑː, - bə -, ˈɛ -/ [2]) is a measure of a company's profitability of the operating business only, thus before any effects of indebtedness, state-mandated payments, and costs required to maintain its ...

  5. Equivalent annual cost - Wikipedia

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    Equivalent annual cost. In finance, the equivalent annual cost (EAC) is the cost per year of owning and operating an asset over its entire lifespan. It is calculated by dividing the negative NPV of a project by the "present value of annuity factor": where r is the annual interest rate and. t is the number of years.

  6. Earnings before interest and taxes - Wikipedia

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    In accounting and finance, earnings before interest and taxes (EBIT) is a measure of a firm's profit that includes all incomes and expenses (operating and non-operating) except interest expenses and income tax expenses. [1][2] Operating income and operating profit are sometimes used as a synonym for EBIT when a firm does not have non-operating ...

  7. Personal consumption expenditures price index - Wikipedia

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    The formula effect accounts for the different formulas used to calculate the two indexes. The PCE price index is based on the Fisher-Ideal formula, while the CPI is based on a modified Laspeyres formula. The weight effect accounts for the relative importance of the underlying commodities reflected in the construction of the two indexes.

  8. Time value of money - Wikipedia

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    Time value of money problems involve the net value of cash flows at different points in time. In a typical case, the variables might be: a balance (the real or nominal value of a debt or a financial asset in terms of monetary units), a periodic rate of interest, the number of periods, and a series of cash flows. (In the case of a debt, cas

  9. DuPont analysis - Wikipedia

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    Pretax Income is often reported as Earnings Before Taxes or EBT; This decomposition presents various ratios used in fundamental analysis. The company's tax burden is (Net income ÷ Pretax profit). This is the proportion of the company's profits retained after paying income taxes. [NI/EBT] The company's interest burden is (Pretax income ÷ EBIT).