accounting rate of return

From: A Dictionary of Finance and Banking | Date: 1997 | Copyright information

accounting rate of return ( ARR ) An accounting ratio that expresses the profit of an organization before interest and taxation, usually for a year, as a percentage of the capital employed ...

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