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Throughout we have said that profit per pound (money) of capital, or per pound of net assets, is the traditional way of measuring the efficiency of the financial performance of a business. Comparing small and large businesses’ contributions — even using this simple approach — is not easy.
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— Small Business Research Trust, Dean Trench Street, London, SW1P 3HB
— Small Firms Division, Department of Trade and Industry
— Investors in Industry (3i)
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Dewhurst, J., Burns, P. (1993). Relative Performance of SMEs. In: Small Business Management. Macmillan Small Business Series. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-23109-6_23
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