The document discusses ways to measure the size of businesses. It identifies key reasons why investors, governments, competitors, workers, and banks would want to know the size of a business, such as evaluating investment safety, collecting taxes, assessing competition levels, and ensuring job security or loan recovery. The main ways listed to measure business size are by number of employees, value of output, value of sales, and capital employed.

1. Chapter 3
Enterprise, Business Growth And Size
•Comparing the size of businesses
•The basis for comparing the size of
Business

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3. Comparing the size of businesses
•Businesses vary in size, and there are
some ways to measure them. Who would
want it to know about size of the
business:
 Investors – to see their investment is safe
or not
 Government – to collect tax revenue
 Competitors – level of competition
 Workers – security of job
 Banks – recovery of the loan

4. Ways of measuring the size of a
business
Businesses can be measured on the basis of:
Number of
employees
Value of
output
Value
of sales
Capital
employed