Excerpt from Accounting in a Golden Rule Economy By contrast with the approach of investment theory, investors and analysts typically evaluate a company's performance by calculating the ratio of net income to total assets or variations on this such as net in come plus interest expense to total assets or net income to equity. These ratios, known variously as return on investment, or accounting rates of return, are also used by corporate management to evaluate the performance of a division. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.