If you can't measure the results of your efforts, don't spend time or money there.
But you never know if your marketing tactics, such as emailing your customers, is working if you don't measure these results.
In that sense you can
not measure the result of any scattering [of particles].
The law is not specific to dogs and cats, so I presume the fine would be the same regardless whether the perpetrator is your Yorkie or a pet horse, however I am almost certain your neighbor may
not measure those results in the same manner.
The analyses evaluate the costs of reducing greenhouse gas emissions, but do
not measure the resulting payoff — the benefits of averting dangerous climate change.
But don't measure your results (how many pounds you lost or how much commission you earned)-- instead, measure your level of execution (the extent to which you stuck to your diet and exercise plan and the number of sales calls you made).
Not exact matches
Rather, the Company believes that the presentation of these adjusted
measures provide additional information to investors to facilitate the comparison of past and present
results, excluding those items that the Company does
not believe are indicative of our ongoing operations due to its nature.
These adjusted
measures are
not intended to replace the presentation of our financial
results in accordance with GAAP.
Since value depends on
results,
not inputs, value in health care is
measured by the outcomes achieved,
not the volume of services delivered, and shifting focus from volume to value is a central challenge.
When it's hard to
measure business outcomes, marketers use metrics that stand in for those numbers: activity
not results, quantity
not quality, efficiency
not effectiveness.
Measures such as quotas that force placement of a higher number of women into leadership may provide rapid
results, but may
not do much to help get rid of the bias, and won't change a company's culture.
Measuring the
results of your marketing efforts allows you to reinvest in vehicles that are working — and ditch those that aren't.
These non-GAAP
measures should be considered in addition to, and
not as a substitute for, the
results prepared in accordance with GAAP.
However, Non-GAAP
measures should
not be considered as substitutes for operating income, net income or other data prepared and reported in accordance with GAAP and should be viewed in addition to our reported
results prepared in accordance with GAAP.
The non-GAAP
results should
not be considered a substitute for financial information presented in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles, and may be different from non-GAAP
measures used by other companies.
Now the firm
measures results —
not time.
David Gould, creative services director at online marketing firm Vertical
Measures, puts it well: «For users, this reinforces the idea that the
result is reputable: this link isn't just the
result of robotic SEO manipulation, but rather it's from a human being who we can learn more about.»
For your new and innovative offering, you won't know how customers react or how a channel will perform until you can see and
measure results.
Cree excludes this item from its non-GAAP
measures because it is a non-cash expense that Cree does
not believe to be reflective of ongoing operating
results.
Cree excludes stock - based compensation expenses from its non-GAAP
measures because they are non-cash expenses that Cree does
not believe are reflective of ongoing operating
results.
Management believes these
measures offer the ability to make period - to - period comparisons that are
not impacted by certain items that can cause dramatic changes in reported operating
results, to perform trend analysis, to better identify operating trends that may otherwise be masked or distorted by these types of items and to provide additional transparency of certain items.
Non-GAAP
measures have limitations in that they do
not reflect all of the amounts associated with the company's
results of operations as determined in accordance with GAAP.
The Company believes that discussion of these additional non-GAAP
measures provides investors with meaningful comparisons of current
results to prior periods»
results by excluding items that the Company does
not believe reflect its fundamental business performance.
The Company believes that non-GAAP
measures have limitations in that they do
not reflect all of the amounts associated with Harmonic's
results of operations as determined in accordance with GAAP and that these
measures should only be used to evaluate Harmonic's
results of operations in conjunction with the corresponding GAAP
measures.
These non-GAAP
measures should be viewed in addition to, and
not as a substitute for, MKS» reported
results, and may be different from non-GAAP
measures used by other companies.
The
measure, of course, is somewhat indirect in that it guarantees certain practices,
not necessarily what
results from their use.
These risks and uncertainties include: Gilead's ability to achieve its anticipated full year 2018 financial
results; Gilead's ability to sustain growth in revenues for its antiviral and other programs; the risk that private and public payers may be reluctant to provide, or continue to provide, coverage or reimbursement for new products, including Vosevi, Yescarta, Epclusa, Harvoni, Genvoya, Odefsey, Descovy, Biktarvy and Vemlidy ®; austerity
measures in European countries that may increase the amount of discount required on Gilead's products; an increase in discounts, chargebacks and rebates due to ongoing contracts and future negotiations with commercial and government payers; a larger than anticipated shift in payer mix to more highly discounted payer segments and geographic regions and decreases in treatment duration; availability of funding for state AIDS Drug Assistance Programs (ADAPs); continued fluctuations in ADAP purchases driven by federal and state grant cycles which may
not mirror patient demand and may cause fluctuations in Gilead's earnings; market share and price erosion caused by the introduction of generic versions of Viread and Truvada, an uncertain global macroeconomic environment; and potential amendments to the Affordable Care Act or other government action that could have the effect of lowering prices or reducing the number of insured patients; the possibility of unfavorable
results from clinical trials involving investigational compounds; Gilead's ability to initiate clinical trials in its currently anticipated timeframes; the levels of inventory held by wholesalers and retailers which may cause fluctuations in Gilead's earnings; Kite's ability to develop and commercialize cell therapies utilizing the zinc finger nuclease technology platform and realize the benefits of the Sangamo partnership; Gilead's ability to submit new drug applications for new product candidates in the timelines currently anticipated; Gilead's ability to receive regulatory approvals in a timely manner or at all, for new and current products, including Biktarvy; Gilead's ability to successfully commercialize its products, including Biktarvy; the risk that physicians and patients may
not see advantages of these products over other therapies and may therefore be reluctant to prescribe the products; Gilead's ability to successfully develop its hematology / oncology and inflammation / respiratory programs; safety and efficacy data from clinical studies may
not warrant further development of Gilead's product candidates, including GS - 9620 and Yescarta in combination with Pfizer's utomilumab; Gilead's ability to pay dividends or complete its share repurchase program due to changes in its stock price, corporate or other market conditions; fluctuations in the foreign exchange rate of the U.S. dollar that may cause an unfavorable foreign currency exchange impact on Gilead's future revenues and pre-tax earnings; and other risks identified from time to time in Gilead's reports filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (the SEC).
Non-GAAP financial
measures should be viewed in addition to, and
not as an alternative to, the Company's reported
results prepared in accordance with GAAP.
Use of Non-GAAP Financial
Results This release includes
measures that are
not in accordance with U.S. generally accepted accounting principles («non-GAAP
measures»).
It's hard to directly
measure the
results of your branding efforts; you can't calculate a brand ROI the way you can with just a social media marketing or just an SEO strategy.
The efforts of central banks to stimulate activity through monetary
measures has succeeded in keeping interest rates very low, but have
not resulted in any significant uptick in real economic activity.
Trying to compare poverty in the 1960s to poverty today using the official
measure yields misleading
results; it implies that programs like SNAP, the EITC, and rental vouchers — all of which were either small in the 1960s or didn't yet exist — have no effect in reducing poverty, which clearly is
not the case.
While the HRC noted that the Company was
not ranked # 1 across all financial
measures described above, it was in the top quartile of most, thus confirming our strong and consistent core
results.
Under the Bonus Plan, our compensation committee, in its sole discretion, determines the performance goals applicable to awards, which goals may include, without limitation: attainment of research and development milestones, sales bookings, business divestitures and acquisitions, cash flow, cash position, earnings (which may include any calculation of earnings, including but
not limited to earnings before interest and taxes, earnings before taxes, earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization and net earnings), earnings per share, net income, net profit, net sales, operating cash flow, operating expenses, operating income, operating margin, overhead or other expense reduction, product defect
measures, product release timelines, productivity, profit, return on assets, return on capital, return on equity, return on investment, return on sales, revenue, revenue growth, sales
results, sales growth, stock price, time to market, total stockholder return, working capital, and individual objectives such as MBOs, peer reviews, or other subjective or objective criteria.
While the HRC noted that the Company was
not ranked # 1 in every financial
measure used to compare its performance to that of its Peer Group, its overall average # 1 rank across these
measures over all three time frames confirmed the Company's strong, consistent, and superior core
results.
As a
result the CCPA budget is
not fully funded by traditional
measure.
Data - driven decision - maker who is
not afraid to experiment,
measure, report, and make decisions based on
results.
The single largest «restraint»
measure «
not» announced in Budget 2013 was an increase in the «lapse», which
resulted in an estimated «savings» of between $ 2 to $ 3 billion (1) per year.
The non-GAAP financial
measures provided should be viewed in addition to, and
not as an alternative for,
results prepared in accordance with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America («GAAP») that are presented in this press release.
I can't stress enough how critical it is to
measure the
results of your content marketing activities so you can continually learn what your audience likes and use that information to continually improve.
Don't just build links blindly and hope for the best; you'll need to
measure the
results of your efforts and determine what's working and what isn't.
Therefore, signing up with a broker that does
not take responsible
measures to protect its traders» funds is only going to
result in losses.
Factor exposure should be considered a source of returns as well as of risk Factor biases can be
measured top - down or bottom - up The
results of the two approaches do
not necessarily reconcile INTRODUCTION Factor investing has become immensely popular in recent years and assets in smart beta products
As a
result, changes in NAV are
not the best gauge of mutual fund performance, which is best
measured by annual total return.
In China's case I show
results for both M1 and M2, because due to the lack of detail provided by the People's Bank of China I'm
not sure which of these
measures is closest to TMS.
By: Marleny Arnoldi 25th April 2018 State - owned power utility Eskom on Wednesday said it had put
measures in place to deal with the coal shortages at seven of its power stations, in Mpumalanga, and has assured the public that this would
not result in load - shedding.
The proper
measure of «caring» ought
not be the size of budget expenditures on poverty programs, if the
result is that the recipients remain dependent on those programs.
I have a lot of faith in science,
not in the unscientific assumption that atheists make that reality is purely mechanistic, but in the procedures of testing hypotheses, questioning assumptions,
measuring results, replicating experiments, and in general debating and persuading based on actual evidence.
The fact that the ethnic conflict in Sri Lanka coincides with the liberalization of the economy and the strengthening of the SAP
measures leaves room for questioning whether the civil war is
not partly the
result of the SAP itself.