Sentences with phrase «consider measuring the performance»

When you consider measuring the performance of your Human Resource department, developing the appropriate set of metrics forms the cornerstone.

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The Company considers EBITDA to be an important measure used to evaluate operating performance, and the measure is frequently used by securities analysts, investors and other interested parties in the evaluation of companies in the industry, but this figure should not be considered in isolation.

However, non-GAAP net income (loss) and non-GAAP basic and diluted earnings (loss) per share are not measures of financial performance under GAAP and, accordingly, should not be considered as alternatives to GAAP measures as indicators of operating performance.

Adjusted EBITDA has limitations as an analytical tool and should not be considered in isolation or as a substitute for income from operations, net income or any other measure of financial performance reported in accordance with U.S. Generally Accepted Accounting Principles («GAAP»).

Non-GAAP financial measures should be considered in addition to, but not as a substitute for or superior to, other measures of financial performance prepared in accordance with GAAP.

The company considers same - property NOI as an important operating performance measure because it is frequently used by securities analysts and investors to measure only the net operating income of properties that have been owned by the company for the entire current and prior year reporting periods.

The company considers NAREIT FFO an important supplemental measure of our operating performance and believes it is frequently used by securities analysts, investors and other interested parties in the evaluation of REITs, many of which present NAREIT FFO when reporting results.

Cree considers free cash flow to be an operating performance and a liquidity measure that provides useful information to management and investors about the amount of cash generated by the business after the purchases of property and equipment, a portion of which can then be used to, among other things, invest in Cree's business, make strategic acquisitions, strengthen the balance sheet and repurchase stock.

Management uses non-GAAP financial measures internally to evaluate the performance of the business and believes they are useful measures that provide meaningful supplemental information to investors to consider when evaluating the performance of the Company.

While management believes that these non-GAAP adjusted financial measures provide useful supplemental information to investors regarding the underlying performance of the company's business operations, investors are reminded to consider these non-GAAP measures in addition to, and not as a substitute for, financial performance measures prepared in accordance with GAAP.

However, management believes that certain non-GAAP financial measures provide management and other users with additional meaningful financial information that should be considered when assessing our ongoing performance.

The Compensation Committee also considered that the annual cash incentive plan already incentivizes performance on three key Company - specific financial measures, and the importance of emphasizing holistic Company performance, as opposed to an isolated metric; the importance of setting a sufficiently difficult target for maximum payout; the benefit of a large and objectively determined performance comparator group; and the overarching goal of an incentive clearly and directly aligned with stockholder interests.

Because of these limitations, you should consider Adjusted Revenue alongside other financial performance measures, including total net revenue and our financial results presented in accordance with GAAP.

The CNGC's independent consultant attends and participates in CNGC meetings at which executive compensation matters are considered, and performs analyses for the CNGC at the CNGC's request, including benchmarking, realizable pay analyses, analyses of the correlation between performance measures and shareholder return, and assessments of the difficulty of attaining performance goals.

These non-GAAP financial measures are measures of performance not defined by accounting principles generally accepted in the United States and should be considered in addition to, not in lieu of, GAAP reported measures.

To test robustness of findings, they: (1) account for one - way trading frictions ranging from 0.02 % to 0.05 % across assets; (2) consider five subperiods to test consistency over time; and, (3) perform out - of - sample tests using the first part of each subperiod to select the best rules and roughly the last year to measure performance of these rules out - of - sample.

Russell 1000 ® ValueIndex measures the performance of those Russell 1000 companies considered undervalued relative to comparable companies.

Researchers interested in exploring the relationship between macroeconomic performance and the quality of monetary institutions should consider augmenting the Fraser and Heritage data with additional institutional indicators, such as measures of central bank independence, the use of monetary policy rules, freedom to use competing forms of money, and exchange rate regimes.

But the fallout from the budget's education measures which Cuomo pushed for continues in Albany: Lawmakers are considering a variety of means to reduce standardized testing in schools and the Board of Regents is pushing back a deadline for school districts to adopt the new teacher performance criteria for those demonstrating hardships.

It criticises the 13 - week definition of what is considered «sustainable» and calls on the government to adopt a performance - measuring system which tracks their progress over a longer period.

Fariña said factors such as attendance and collaboration should be considered in measuring teachers» performance, noting that test scores were being de-emphasized across the country in teacher evaluations.

Additionally, due to other medical issues or poor performance status (a measure that considers a patient's quality of life and ability to function during treatment), some stage III NSCLC patients are unable to receive the standard treatment of concurrent chemotherapy and RT..

The way the performance results are presented does not seem to influence appraisal and bonus decisions, but evaluators who are more familiar with sustainability measures tend to consider those more important than evaluators who are not familiar with them.

These patterns remained largely intact, particularly for Latino teachers, even after considering factors such as student performance, teacher working conditions, and other measures of teacher efficacy.

And that's before considering the superior performance measures sacrificed in the process.

As important, the analysis does not consider any measures of state policies except for exit exams, implying that any other policy changes for the three decades between 1971 and 2004 are either irrelevant for student performance or are not correlated with the introduction and use of exit exams.

Though measuring and comparing school performance is always complicated, the Edsource report offers an impartial analysis that must be considered in the policy debate.

Consider another example from the same dataset in which high school students» cumulative grade point averages (GPAs) are related to their scores on Panorama's Growth Mindset scale, which measures how much students believe they can change their intelligence, behavior, and other factors central to their school performance.

You might evaluate the student through a portfolio assessment in which you examine his work during the year and consider his progress a measure of his performance.

Those who want to reward teachers on the basis of measured performance should consider whether it is worth the trouble and expense to implement value - added assessment if the only outcome is to reward small numbers of teachers.

The standard of scientific and technological performance required to consider should be the following: 1) increase of the productivity of the economy that is measured by the relationship between global GDP and sectoral GDP and resources used in production processes (raw materials, supplies and labor); 2) reduction of the costs of agricultural, industrial production, and services; 3) increase in investments in R&D; 4) innovation of new products and processes that is measured by its advance over previously used products and processes; 5) increase of the durability of products / services; 6) increase of physical safety of products / services provided to people and users; and, 7) decrease in the levels of technological dependency of the country from the outside.

The standard of political and moral performance required to consider should be the following: 1) increase of solidarity among the inhabitants of the country; 2) increase in the practice of social justice by organs of government and civil society; 3) increase in the distribution of income and wealth among the population; 4) increase of measures to preserve and care for nature; 5) increase in policies for integral development of education in accordance with the highest human values; 6) advances in the realization of the collective will of the citizens; 7) improvement of political institutions; 8) success in combating corruption measured by its reduction; 9) increase in the exercise of citizenship with the effective participation of citizens in government decisions and fight for expansion of their rights; and 10) increase of contribution of public and private organizations to the political, economic, social and environmental development of the country.

Traditional approaches, on the other hand, were more effective for improving performance on standardized exams, considered by the researchers as a measure of short - term retention.

Like a rapidly growing number of schools around the nation, Ms. Dubos said, hers is considering using portfolios as a way of measuring student performance in writing.

Critics also contend that standardized tests are only one measure of student performance, and must be considered alongside other assessment tools, including classroom work, student portfolios, and teacher evaluations.

Unlike today's critics of Wells Fargo, yesterday's commentators on Atlanta didn't consider the possibility that top managers could assess whether set performance goals needed to be adjusted, whether reasonable security measures would prevent cooking the books, and whether claimed results were real.

However, when these variables are considered simultaneously and alongside school performance and resource measures, only the poverty indicator retains predictive power.

Advocates contend that test scores offer a more objective measure of a teacher's performance than most evaluations currently in place, which rarely consider student progress and rate nearly all teachers as successful.

It said that scores on California Standards Tests and other non-state test measures, including district assessments and samples of students» work, «are to be considered an important but clearly limited part of the overall performance evaluation process.»

As important as it is to question whether test data can measure teacher performance, is the need to consider the collateral damage to education, learning, school climate, etc., that such a misguided one - dimensional approach has had.

Instead of arguing against testing completely, we should be helping to outline more comprehensive measures of performance that begin with testing but include additional indicators that are not currently considered.

Since 2003, the state has ranked among the top in performance and in progress on what is known as «The Nation's Report Card,» considered among the most reliable long - term measures of achievement.

In a letter dated May 3, dozens of advocacy groups asked Brown to recommit to closing the academic achievement gap for high - need students as he considers an opening on the State Board of Education and a new plan for measuring school performance later this year.

However, as pointed out by several other witnesses, since the key performance measure used by these entities is student performance on the STAAR test, which many consider a flawed measure, the resulting productivity / efficiency analysis would be flawed as well.

For each of these application categories, the data that reflect alignment will require the deductive reasoning approach and consideration of the statistical strength of relationships between FAST ™ assessments and measures considered to reflect the «true» performance outcome for tested students.

«We wanted to take a thoughtful approach so we could carefully consider how to best measure performance and how to weigh the effects of such plans on student learning and teacher morale,» said Dan Moore, Assistant Superintendent for Human Resources.

Policymakers trying to improve the quality of the teaching pool should consider using measures actually indicative of performance rather than age.

In addition, «27 states [now] require annual evaluations for all teachers, compared to just 15 states in 2009;» «17 states include student growth as the preponderant criterion in teacher evaluations, up from only four states in 2009... An additional 18 states include growth measures as a «significant» criterion in teacher evaluations;» «23 states require that evidence of teacher performance be used in tenure decisions [whereas no] state had such a policy in 2009;» «19 states require that teacher performance is considered in reduction in force decisions;» and the «majority of states (28) now articulate that ineffectiveness is grounds for teacher dismissal» (p. 6).

The call is loud for value - added measures, which consider student improvement over time as a dominant factor in school performance scores.

Because California did not issue AYP scores for 2014, another test was used to measure yearly performance which ACSD insisted disqualified Palm Lane from being considered a subject school.