Benchmarking
The practice of a company comparing its performance ratios with those of the company’s competitors in order to judge the relative efficiency of their general business and financial operations is competitive benchmarking. Companies identify potential areas of improvement as well as areas of competitive advantage when benchmarking themselves against competitors.
Common metrics with which firms benchmark themselves against their competition include: liquidity ratios solvency ratios, leverage ratios and...More efficiency ratios.
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Anonymous
(VP Finance)
Anonymous
I would like to share the results of the polling questions from our webinar, "Best Practices for Managing Currency Risk: Managing the Euro Storm and Beyond". The webinar was attended by senior corporate financial professionals from over 400 multinational...
Anonymous
(CFO)
It feels like in this economy we should be monitoring some external indicators, I can think of a few for our business, but are there companies using external indicators to measure or drive their business? If so where are they consistently finding them, how are they bringing...
(CFO at BMGI)
I am looking for benchmark data for consulting companies. Am mainly interested in two areas - utilization rates and pricing. For pricing - what rules of thumb have people used to price contracts to clients? Thanks for any input!
I am looking for benchmark data for consulting companies. Am mainly interested in two areas - utilization rates and pricing. For pricing - what rules of thumb have people used to price contracts to clients? Thanks for any input!
(CFO at Novella Clinical)
We are a $100m revenue private company in professional services (revenues contract/project based, no inventory, limited supply chain). I am interested in whether anyone has a benchmark % of revenue range for the audit fee for this kind of company?
We are a $100m revenue private company in professional services (revenues contract/project based, no inventory, limited supply chain). I am interested in whether anyone has a benchmark % of revenue range for the audit fee for this kind of company?
(Principal - Finance/ Processes at TSI-Transforming Solutions, Inc)
Does anyone know of a good source (including a human) for benchmarks on the annual IT spend for a retail health operation? For example, for a ortho or physio therapy practice, what % of total revenues/collections would they normally spend on technology? Thanks!...
Does anyone know of a good source (including a human) for benchmarks on the annual IT spend for a retail health operation? For example, for a ortho or physio therapy practice, what % of total revenues/collections would they normally spend on technology? Thanks!...
(CFO at Novella Clinical)
I am wanting to benchmark the three elements of compensation (salary, variable and LTIP) for the C suite in a $100m revenue private co. i am looking for a specialist consulting firm who can benchmark and then advise on building an LTIP. We are based in Raleigh NC
I am wanting to benchmark the three elements of compensation (salary, variable and LTIP) for the C suite in a $100m revenue private co. i am looking for a specialist consulting firm who can benchmark and then advise on building an LTIP. We are based in Raleigh NC
(Finance Manager at TriMedx)
We are not publicly traded, and are a service provider in the healthcare market. Many of our competitors are also privately held.
We are not publicly traded, and are a service provider in the healthcare market. Many of our competitors are also privately held.
Anonymous
(Treasurer)
