PICART, C. - Département des Études Économiques d'Ensemble (D3E), … - 2004
This paper defines first profitability and its measurement. Net operating return on assets is shown to be the only kind … of profitability that can be derived from business accounting data - adequately reprocessed - and provide relevant … means of cumulated flows of investment. Such estimates of profitability are closer to those provided by the national …