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ASA's Operating Performance Report (OPR)
Do you know your company's operating strengths and weaknesses?
How do you identify opportunities for operational improvement?
ASA has the perfect tool. The ASA Operating Performance Report represents the most complete, accurate and up-to-date comparative financial performance information published anywhere about the PHCP and PVF industries. This study is designed to serve as an easy-to-understand, actionable tool for industry firms to evaluate their company's operating results in order to pinpoint strengths and weaknesses and improvement opportunities.
Understanding financial ratios and the impact of this type of analysis could mean the difference between simply "operating" your business or "excelling" in your industry. The OPR will help you monitor key performance areas such as:
- Return on equity
- Gross Margin on net sales
- Payroll expense to gross margin
- Gross margin
- Cost of goods sold to average
- Gross margin per employee
Details of survey results that appear in this report are broken down into primary business segments in all the PHCP and PVF industries. Within each segment, data is shown for all participating firms, as well as by sales volume size and a special analysis that focuses on high profit firms is included. Each report also includes a 20-year trend report for each business segment. |