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Cost of goods sold as a percentage of revenue
This measure calculates the total annual cost of goods sold (COGS) as a percentage of revenue. COGS represents the cost of purchasing raw materials and manufacturing finished…
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Business entity revenue per business entity employee
This measure calculates revenue per employee for the current reporting period. It is a Staff Productivity measure that helps companies assess the efficiency of their staff…
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Business entity revenue per business entity FTE
This measure calculates business entity revenue per business entity full-time equivalent employee (FTE). This Staff Productivity measure is intended to help companies assess…
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Selling, general, and administrative (SGA) costs as a percentage of business entity revenue
This measure calculates the organization's expenditure in selling, general, and administrative (SG&A) costs as a percentage of business entity revenue. SG&A costs encompass a…
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Total cost of continuing operations as percentage of revenue
This measure calculates the total cost of continuing operations as a percentage of revenue. Total cost of continuing operations is the sum of cost of goods sold (COGS) and…
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Number of invoices processed per FTE that performs the process "process accounts receivable (AR)"
This measure calculates the number of invoices processed per full-time equivalent (FTE) employee that processes payments due from customers, including all funds received,…
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Number of FTEs that perform the process "invoice customer" per $1 billion revenue
This measure calculates the number of full-time equivalent employees (FTEs) per $1 billion revenue that develop and deliver customer invoices. It is part of a set of Process…
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Systems cost to perform the process "invoice customer" per $100,000 revenue
This measure calculates systems cost per $100,000 revenue to perform the process "invoice customer," which involves preparing detailed reports of customer purchases and…
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Systems cost to perform the process "manage and process adjustments/deductions" per $100,000 revenue
This measure calculates systems cost per $100,000 revenue to perform the process "manage and process adjustments/deductions," which consists of creating and providing funds…
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Systems cost to perform the process "manage and process collections" per $100,000 revenue
This measure calculates systems cost per $100,000 revenue to perform the process "manage and process collections," which consists of posting entries to respective accounts,…
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Systems cost to perform the process "process accounts receivable (AR)" as a percentage of total process cost
This measure calculates the percentage of the total cost to perform the "process accounts receivable (AR)" process that comes from systems cost. The purpose of this process…
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Inventory accuracy
This measure calculates average inventory accuracy, which is the absolute value of the sum of the variance between physical inventory and perpetual inventory (i.e. inventory…
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Inventory carrying cost as a percentage of inventory value
This measure calculate inventory carrying cost as a percentage of inventory value. Inventory carrying cost includes opportunity cost/cost of capital (for the money tied up in…
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Inventory obsolescence as a percentage of total inventory
This measure calculates the percentage of total inventory that is at the end of its product life cycle and has not seen any sales or usage for a set period of time usually…
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Total number of invoices billed to customers (current and delinquent) per FTE that performs the process "manage and process collections"
This measure calculates the number of invoices processed per full-time equivalent (FTE) employee that performs the process "manage and process collections," which consists of…