# Efficiency

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## Definition

A term that has also been used more and more frequently in the financial world in recent years, but which is nevertheless imprecise. - In detail, a precise distinction must be made between - productivity: factor input to output, - profitability: costs to output, and - profitability, profit rate in the terminology of the older national economy: profit to capital employed. Even in the annual reports of reputable banks, it is often unclear exactly what "efficiency" is supposed to mean; the same applies to "concept" as a term for everything that cannot or does not want to be described exactly. - From the point of view of the market, and from the point of view of economics, in some publications also a linguistic expression for the fact that money, as a claim on scarce resources, is directed to where it generates the highest return: that it reaches the best host (to the most effective allocation of scarce resources); linguistically also unattractively called "optimal allocation of resources". - Sometimes said for an institution's performance, material and personnel capacity. - See asset productivity, basic profit, dividend yield, return on equity, revenue efficiency, profit, cost, KLEMS database, eco-efficiency, return, profitability, riskignorance. Attention: The financial encyclopedia is protected by copyright and may only be used for private purposes without express consent! University Professor Dr. Gerhard Merk, Dipl.rer.pol., Dipl.rer.oec. Professor Dr. Eckehard Krah, Dipl.rer.pol. E-mail address: info@ekrah.com https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerhard_Ernst_Merk https://www.jung-stilling-gesellschaft.de/merk/ https://www.gerhardmerk.de/

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