Benchmarking
Benchmarking is a set of enterprise efforts undertaken in order to identify best practices and exploit their implementation within the benchmarking enterprise.
Definitions
According to Financial Management Theory and Practice by Eugene F. Brigham and Michael C. Ehrhardt (13th edition),
- Benchmarking. When a firm compares its ratios to other leading companies in the same industry.
According to Fundamentals of Financial Management by Eugene F. Brigham and Joel F. Houston (15th edition),
Related concepts
- Financial management. A combination of enterprise efforts undertaken in order to procure and utilize monetary resources of the enterprise.
