The Exit Planning lnstitute's Northeast Ohio Chapter partnered with Grant Thornton, PNC Bank, and the Ohio Employee Ownership Center at Kent State University in 2013* to conduct a survey of business owners. The goal of the survey was to ask business owners a set of questions around a broader and larger issue: how effectively [...]
Doctors in the developing world measure their progress not by the aggregate number of children who die in childbirth, but by the infant mortality rate – a ratio of the number of births to deaths. Similarly, baseball’s leadoff batters measure their “on-base percentage” – the number of times they get on base – as a [...]
You know gross margin impacts your profit, but have you considered the impact it has on the value of your company? When assessing your company’s value, acquirers and investors will often scrutinize your gross profit margin. Gross profit margin is the difference between a company’s revenue and its cost of goods sold. In other [...]