Critics cannot cherry pick their indicators and remain credible.
"A company ought to pick performance indicators for bonus schemes that are consistent with its corporate strategy," Larcker says.
Pick your indicator: Soaring economic growth.
The official added that American intelligence continued to pick up some indicators of possible terrorist plots against American interests, but that the evidence remained vague.
Patients are shown abstract images in the of ink blots and told to share what they see, which doctors then pick apart for indicators of specific traits or characteristics.
So, as he spoke with reporters Thursday, the Spurs' Bowen was asked if through all the battles he'd picked up any indicators of when Bryant was about to take over a game.
"The national economy has been running within proper range and the major indicators picking up steadily, showing moderate but stable and sound momentum of development," China's National Bureau of Statistics said in a statement.
Honey bees are biological indicators, picking up chemicals and other pollutants from their environment both external and internal to their hives.
First history tells us that employment is ALWAYS a lagging indicator and that it is the last of the economic indicators to pick up once the economy picks up, that it will continue to rise does not really tell me anything that I, nor the market, does not already know.
Although productivity and wage growth have been disappointing, these indicators may pick up in 2015, as the unemployment rate falls toward five per cent.
