calculation of profitability
41Cost/income rates — Cost/Income Rates are for internal use by a financial institution. The organisational support department uses the rates to compare costs and benefits of a product. The rates are also used to compare the profitability in different years. See… …
42lifetime value — The future long term profitability of a particular customer. There is no clear agreement on how lifetime value can be measured. One technique is to forecast future cash flows for the customer, identify an appropriate discount rate or cost of… …
43lifetime value — customer lifetime value; customer equity The future long term profitability of a particular customer, i. e. the amount by which the revenue received from this customer will exceed the cost of attracting, selling to, and servicing him or her.… …
44Meteorite — This article is about debris from space that survives impact with the ground. For other uses of Meteor and Meteors , see Meteor (disambiguation). For popular applications, see Falling star. For the fictional superhero in the Marvel Comics… …
45Inbreeding — is breeding between close relatives, whether plant or animal. If practiced repeatedly, it leads to an increase in homozygosity of a population. A higher frequency of recessive, deleterious traits in homozygous form in a population can, over time …
46Sunk costs — In economics and business decision making, sunk costs are retrospective (past) costs that have already been incurred and cannot be recovered. Sunk costs are sometimes contrasted with prospective costs, which are future costs that may be incurred… …
47Law of value — The law of value is a concept in Karl Marx s critique of political economy. Most generally, it refers to a regulative principle of the economic exchange of the products of human work: the relative exchange values of those products in trade,… …
48Available seat miles — An available seat mile (ASM) is the fundamental unit of production for a passenger carrying airline.[1] A unit in this case is one seat, available for sale, flown one mile. For example, an aircraft with 300 seats available for sale flying 1,000… …
49New Hampshire Family Division — New Hampshire Judicial Branch Family Division (simply Family Division) operates ten courts in three counties in the U.S. state of New Hampshire that deal with matters impacting families. The Family Division has courts in Grafton, Rockingham and… …
50Socialist economics — is a broad, and sometimes controversial, term. A normative definition held by many socialists states that all socialist economic theories and arrangements are united by the desire to achieve greater equality and give the workers greater control… …
