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What does the financial term ROI stand for?

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Question added by Abdul Samad Nadeem Malik , Business Support Officer , Thimar Al Jazirah - 3M ESPE
Date Posted: 2014/04/11
Hira Ansari
by Hira Ansari , Project Manager / Website Developer (Wordpress / PHP / HTML5) - Design Develop 'n' SEO , Desing Develop SEO UK

ROI stands for Return On Investment

ROI is also known as rate of return or return on assets. Its a measure of the net income a firm's management is able to earn with its total assets. Return on investment is calculated by dividing net profits after taxes by total assets.

  • Formula: Return on investment = (Income - Cost) / Cost

Rehan Qureshi
by Rehan Qureshi , Financial Consultant , Self Employeed

ROI is basically stands for return on investment.

SREEDEVI SUNILKUMAR
by SREEDEVI SUNILKUMAR , Business finance officer , Emirates Airline

Return on investment

A performance measure used to evaluate the efficiency of an investment or to compare the efficiency of a number of different investments. To calculate ROI, the benefit (return) of an investment is divided by the cost of the investment; the result is expressed as a percentage or a ratio.

 

Divyesh Patel
by Divyesh Patel , Assistant Professional Officer- Treasury , City Of Cape Town

The term 'ROI' means Return On Investment. If you invest an amount of money and receive more than you invested, every cent over your original amount is your ROI

ROI - Return on Investment - In layman terms.

"The money invested by a Company on a product should be pay for itself within the first5 sales and everything after that should be Profit"

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return on investment

Ahmed Abdel Hakim Mahmoud
by Ahmed Abdel Hakim Mahmoud , اداري شيفت النايت , Cairo Specialized Hospital, Faisal, Giza

 it is the return on investment 

Natasha Khan
by Natasha Khan , Assistant Manager , Publishing Company – Coventry

In financial terms (ROI) means Return On Investment.

د Waleed
by د Waleed , Management - Leadership-Business Administration-HR&Training-Customer Service/Retention -Call Center , Multi Companies Categories: Auditing -Trade -Customer service -HR-IT&Internet -Training&Consultation

In finance, ROI stands for Return On Investment which is a performance measure used to evaluate the efficiency of an investment.(Return/ Cost)

Maria Theresa Gumangan
by Maria Theresa Gumangan , Accounts And Admin Officer , Tecumex Middle East FZCO

ROI simply means Return On Investment 

It is one of the several Profitability Ratios (like ROS & EPS) being used to measure company or management's performance for a period of time. 

Cristian Slobozeanu
by Cristian Slobozeanu , FM Country Contract Manager , CBRE GWS

Before someone spends money to buy a business or an asset for a business, abviously  would like to know when the the money spent are completely returned and the business/asset will start to really make money.

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