Statistics New Zealand

07/01/2024 | Press release | Distributed by Public on 07/01/2024 01:29

Business performance benchmarker

Business performance benchmarker

01 July 2024, 10:45am

Use the business performance benchmarker data to find key financial performance and benchmark statistics for business planning, or to compare your business against similar businesses.

We developed the benchmarker data to provide financial statistics for more industries than those covered by the annual enterprise survey (AES).

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About financial data

The financial data contains industry data for the last three years on:

  • total income
  • expenditure
  • profit
  • assets
  • business count
  • employee count.

These are available for 483 industries. For definitions, see Definitions and metadata below.

The industry total income, expenditure, profit, and assets are sourced from the AES, and the business count and employee count are sourced from New Zealand business demography statistics. Business and employee counts are annual snapshots as at February 2023.

About benchmark ratios

The benchmark ratios have eight ratios of businesses, based on the distribution of turnover, for the 2023 financial year. These are available for 227 of the 483 industries.

The eight ratios are:

  • gross profit ratio
  • stock turnover per annum
  • salaries and wages/turnover ratio
  • return on total assets
  • return equity
  • current ratio
  • quick ratio
  • liability structure.

For definitions, see Definitions and metadata below.

Benchmark ratios data is sourced from Inland Revenue tax data.

What we'd like feedback about

Let us know:

  • whether the data meets your needs
  • any other information you would like to have in the benchmarker.

Give feedback on the Business performance benchmarker.

Data quality

The annual enterprise survey statistics used in the financial data are below the design level and do not go through our usual quality checks. To help you understand the accuracy of these estimates, we've included an accuracy category, based on sample errors for each industry.

For the benchmark ratios, users should be aware that a business can have operations classified into more than one industry, which can affect the industry financial ratios produced. These ratios should be used with caution.

Definitions and metadata

Business performance benchmarker concepts - DataInfo+ gives the definitions of terms and concepts used in this release.

Business performance benchmarker 2023 - DataInfo+ provides the data sources and general methodology used to produce these statistics.