This should not detract from the [good] underlying performance of the business".
Johnston Press said that it comfortably beat city expectations on underlying performance, with consensus figures for operating profit at £62m and pre-tax profitsat £23.8m.
She said the total shareholder return measure built into the share scheme had not been "a fair reflection" of BP's relative underlying performance compared with its peers, and therefore the executives had deserved more.
But they have done less well this year, and like the A shares, tend to rise and fall on waves of speculation with little regard for the companies' underlying performance.
The best companies track key metrics that accurately reflect underlying performance and provide significant insight into why a company will succeed in the future.
Possible mechanisms underlying performance differences between paradigms are investigated and discussed.
Yet little is known about the cognitive processes underlying performance on the CRT.
As in the previous analysis, the underlying performance metric is the CDF of the per user throughput measured at the UEs' layer-2.
Block Design tasks are neuropsychologically valuable, but standard scoring sacrifices potentially useful information that could elucidate the cognitive processes underlying performance failures.
Earnings management involves the alteration of financial reports to mislead stakeholders about the organization's underlying performance, or to "influence contractual outcomes that depend on reported accounting numbers".
The experimental results support our novel description of the cognitive processes underlying performance in the Iowa Gambling Task.
