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Peter F. Drucker Boxed Set (8 Books) (The Drucker Library)
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Peter F. Drucker Boxed Set (8 Books) (The Drucker Library)

by Peter F. Drucker
November 2020
Intermediate to advanced
2440 pages
59h 3m
English
Harvard Business Review Press
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CHAPTER THIRTEEN

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Measuring Business Performance

ONE OF THE BASIC causes of poor performance on the part of analysts, investors, and business managers is the yardstick they use to determine how a business is doing—“earnings per share.”

Performance in a business means applying capital productively and there is only one appropriate yardstick of business performance. This is the return on all assets employed or on all capital invested (the two differ, but not significantly). Whether the assets come from the outside or inside makes no difference. Retained earnings are just as much money as a bank loan or new equity. A business that does not earn the ...

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