Sentences with phrase «core items measure»

Not exact matches

FFO as Adjusted: A supplemental non-GAAP measure that the company believes is more reflective of its core operating performance and provides investors and analysts an additional measure to compare the company's performance across reporting periods on a consistent basis by excluding items that we do not believe are indicative of our core operating performance.

The report also said the average of the Bank of Canada's three measures of core inflation, which are designed to leave out the noise of more - volatile items like gasoline, was two per cent last month.

Management uses these non-GAAP financial measures to assist in comparing the Company's performance on a consistent basis for purposes of business decision making by removing the impact of certain items that management believes do not directly reflect the Company's core operations.

«We believe that adjusted EBITDA is an important measure of our operating performance because it allows management, investors and analysts to evaluate and assess our core operating results after removing the impact of changes in our capital structure, income - tax status and method of vehicle financing, and other items of a nonoperational nature that affect comparability,» Zipcar said in its most recent filing.

Core Inflation is a measure of inflation that excludes certain items that face volatile price movements.

Inflation data published last week showed the headline personal consumption expenditure (PCE) inflation index hit a 2 per cent annual pace in the year to March and the Fed's preferred underlying measure, the core PCE which excludes volatile energy and food items, rose to 1.9 per cent.

Principal investigator Cari Herrmann - Abell and her colleagues plan to expand on their previous efforts to develop multiple - choice test items by developing a set of constructed or open - ended response items that can be used in combination with the multiple - choice items to measure students» understanding of core disciplinary ideas, science practices, and crosscutting concepts — the three dimensions of science learning that are central to the vision of NGSS.

After piloting the collection of measures of those skills in a small number of schools during the 2013 - 14 school year, including conducting multiple experiments to compare the performance of alternative survey items, CORE conducted a broader field test involving more than 450,000 students in grades 3 - 12 the following spring.

If voters approve the measure to repeal Common Core, the state would also be required to establish a committee with the power to veto any new standards and would direct the Massachusetts Commissioner of Education to «release all of the test items, including questions, constructed responses and essays, for each grade and every subject.»

Myth: Common Core tests will be much better than current exams, with many items measuring higher - order skills.

And we have to recognize that CA's previous CST system was built to measure CA's 1997 standards that objective analyses have said heavily overlap in terms of both content and rigor with the new common core standards, similar to MA's old standards to new common core standards situation, and that likely 60 to 80 percent of the CST items also actually measure common core standards, tho not with the desired types of item and test administration formats.

One of the items scheduled for consideration is a resolution similar to the April RNC measure, condemning the Common Core standards as an «unproven experiment on our children» that will promote an «inferior, un-American curriculum.»

Core inflation eliminates these items because they can have temporary price shocks that can diverge from the overall trend of inflation and give what the prognosticators at the Federal Reserve view as a false measure of inflation.

Core Inc. — Waterloo, IA April 2011 — Mar 2013 Warehouse Worker • Received, stored and distributed goods • Loaded and unloaded shipments • Performed goods receipts and goods issues • Coordinated material transfers • Prepared receiving reports and other paperwork • Packed and unpacked orders as and when instructed • Measured, cut and spooled wire materials • Verified quantities and items being shipped • Made deliveries when required

The scale was developed for the MoBa and is based on core items used in previously developed measures of marital satisfaction and relationship quality [33 — 35].