The preceding article describes measures of profitability and the financial position of companies based on the national accounts. This companion article presents some complementary statistics derived from the reported accounts of large companies. Putting together these published accounts enables statistics to be constructed measuring the performance of individual industrial sectors.
The article concludes that the trends revealed by the measures based on the two sources accord reasonably well although the values of certain of the measures are rather different, in particular real profitability.
Performance of large companies