Performance measurement

Similar financial terms

Performance Related Pay
Performance Related pay is a remuneration system whereby the employee's pay is based on his or her performance. It is basically a payments by results system that is designed to give incentive to the employee to work harder or more productively. In its simplest form, this may be an annual bonus based on subjective assessment of performance. In many larger organisations this can be more structured, based on a set of pre-agreed objectives or targets. Performance related pay is becoming increasingly ...

Performance shares
Shares of stock given to managers on the basis of performance as measured by earnings per share and similar criteria. A control device used by shareholders to tie management to the self-interest of shareholders.

Performance evaluation
The evaluation of a manager's performance which involves, first, determining whether the money manager added value by outperforming the established benchmark (performance measurement) and, second, determining how the money manager achieved the calculated return (performance attribution analysis).

Performance attribution analysis
The decomposition of a money manager's performance results to explain the reasons why those results were achieved. This analysis seeks to answer the following questions: (a) What were the major sources of added value? (b) Was short-term factor timing statistically significant? (c) Was market timing statistically significant? And (d), Was security selection statistically significant?

BARRA's performance analysis (PERFAN)
A method developed by BARRA, a consulting firm in Berkeley, California. It is commonly used by institutional investors applying performance attribution analysis to evaluate their money managers' performances.

Measurement error
Errors in measuring an explanatory variable in a regression that leads to biases in estimated parameters.