Very strangely convinced that the mere creation of it is an economic stimulant, they pay no mind to money existing as a measure of value.
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Thank goodness for gold always telling the truth, and for those who doubt its constancy as a measure of value, an ounce in 1971 bought 15 barrels of oil, and an ounce today buys a little over 16.
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Bottom line: Money should be a fixed measure of value, just as an hour has 60 minutes, a foot has 12 inches and a pound has 16 ounces.
On the other hand, the price-to-book ratio is a useful measure of value, and most researchers agree that this ratio is strongly correlated with stock price performance.
In fact, just using market capitalization as a measure of the value of the company, Apple could buy the sixth through tenth largest technology stocks traded in the United States.
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However, tangible book value per share is a good measure of liquidation value, or the amount that shareholders can reasonably expect to receive should the company go under.
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The good news is that half of the 24 industry groups use metrics that most highly correlate to value, and also use TSR as a direct measure of shareholder value.
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At the very least, they offer a more reliable measure of seasonal value than a simpler stat like games started.
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The best measure of a currency's true value is its price in gold, a standard measure of wealth for 4, 000 years.
That's why a better measure of the value of the Rangers is Cablevision's Madison Square Garden unit, which primarily includes Madison Square Garden, the MSG Network and professional sports teams.
Charles Lee, an economist at Cornell University, has developed a new measure of price to value that takes account of interest rates, dividends and earnings forecasts.
About money, it should be remembered that it was conceived long ago solely to facilitate the exchange of goods, and as a way for market actors to measure the value of investments.
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But with a value added measure of 101.1 it is in band B - showing that it is above average in bringing on the children from their earlier test results.
"You can't measure the value of a law degree in terms of what your employment number was nine months after graduation, " says Dean Rudy Hasl.
The role of the state in defining strategy, purposes and priorities of policy for culture and the measure of public understanding of the value of culture depend on a general conceptualizing of the cultural sector and cultural policies.
It has adjusted UK gross value added, a measure of economic output, to exclude energy extraction and use, and also financial and insurance activities.
Which means that we have to find some similar measure of value add in a company, not turnover, which we can compare with GDP.
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And this calculation does not attempt to measure the value of having a football program that is essentially self- supporting and probably subsidizing other sports programs, which liberates University funds for other projects.
Ultimately, the only measure of a private-equity stake's value is what it fetches when it is sold.
The companies in these industries are either not using the metrics that are most strongly correlated to value or, when the overall correlations of financial metrics to shareholder value are poor, they are not sufficiently using TSR as a direct measure of shareholder performance.
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In fact, most companies have no way to measure the cost or the value of a happy customer.
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They have a wealth of knowledge in how buyers measure success, how value is defined and changes of time, how well the product achieves target outcomes, and customer relationship and engagement expectations.
The NAHT's leadership criticises Ofsted inspections for what it believes is over-reliance on data, such as the Sats tests and data known as "contextural value added" - a measure of progress pupils make throughout their time in school.
Is there anything that this administration is doing to consider, calculate, pose in any way, shape or form, weigh or measure potential deficit implications or economic implications of a value-added tax?
We measure corporate size using four measures--sales, market value, assets and profits--to produce a composite measure of bigness.
The study speaks to the larger question of how do policy makers and economists measure this new emerging part of the economy, a new area that creates new value from an already existing asset?
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Gold is a great predictor of our economic health because as the most constant, objective measure of value in existence, its price is the single best measure of the value of the most important price in the world: the U.S. dollar.
He dismisses the importance of dividends because of their double taxation, and says book value is only a good measure within industries and doesn't provide analytical insight into the broad market.
They will also allow readers to find out how schools are helping pupils to progress, with a value-added measure that indicates how pupils have improved between the end of Key Stage 1 (infants) and the end of Key Stage 2 (juniors).
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