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Financial Performance Indicators
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Industry Financial Ratios also known as Industry Norms help you to benchmark the performance of your business against your peers.  They identify where you are out performing the industry average and where, more critically, you are lagging behind.


If you are not yet in business, financial ratios can be used to make sure the cash flow portion of your business plan is realistic.

 

They help you to determine whether or not your sales projections are fanciful and profit margins are achievable.  They also provide you with insight into your sector as a whole identifying among other thing what percentage of businesses are actually profitable.

Financial institutions, Accountants and even the Canada Revenue and Taxation Agency all use financial benchmarks to gain perspective on your business' financial performance or expected performance. 

 

They are a standard measure that can be used to evaluate a business and a prospective entrepreneur.

 

The most reliable industry benchmarks in Canada are Statistics Canada's Financial Performance Indicators.

 

Financial Performance Indicators (FPI)

Financial Performance Indicators is an authoritative reference source of 15 key financial ratios by industry groupings compiled from the North American Industry Classification System (NAICS 2002). It also includes a common-sized balance sheet for each industry.  Financial Performance Indicators is based on up-to-date, reliable and comprehensive data on Canadian businesses, derived from Statistics Canada databases of financial statements for three reference years.

You can now purchase individual industry profiles for small (revenue between $30,000 & $5 million) and medium (revenue between $5 million & $25 million) sized businesses for immediate download via the Stats Link Canada web site.

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NB: Due to a change in Statistics Canada policy our original Canadian Industry Profiles are no longer available.  For more information on options to replicate these popular profiles, please e-mail us at contact@gdsourcing.com

 

 		  
 

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