If you measure only financial performance, then you can hope only for improvement in financial performance.

如果你只衡量财务业绩，那么你只可能在财务业绩方面得到提高。

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Return on equity, the amount a firm earns on its common stock outstanding and an important measure of financial performance, has decreased significantly in the years since the credit crisis.

股本回报率，它是普通股应收的占公司获利的比重数量，是一个重要的财务业绩测量指标，已经从信用危机以来的几年里明显减少。

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It aims to measure the financial, social and environmental performance of the corporation over a period of time.

它的目的是衡量一段时间内企业在财务，社会和环境方面的表现。

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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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