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Market growth rate
Helps managers answer: To what extent are we operating in markets with future potential?
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Revenue growth rate
Helps managers answer: How well are we growing the business?
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Answer the key performance question: “To what extent are we operating in markets with future potential?”
Answer the key performance question: “How well are we growing the business?”
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Market growth rate
- Maintain actual, forecast and scenario views, and show the estimate as a range when source uncertainty is material. Average basket size can add context by relating total market size to the number of customers.
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- Do not confuse growth caused by inflation, currency or a changed market boundary with growth in underlying demand. A precise ratio built on inconsistent market definitions is misleading.
Revenue growth rate
- Build a revenue bridge from the comparison period to the current period, separating volume, price, mix, acquisition, divestiture and currency effects. Pair it with gross margin, retention and cash conversion so the organisation can distinguish valuable growth from expensive volume.
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- Do not treat revenue as cash or growth as success. A start up or market entry may rationally prioritise sales before profit, but weak unit economics, rising receivables or persistent negative cash flow can make that trajectory unsustainable.
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