METRICS OF DEBATE:

• [ ] Social Metrics:
• [ ] Percent Women in Leadership Positions: This metric measures the representation of women in leadership roles within organizations.
• [ ] Female Entrepreneurship Initiatives: This metric tracks the number of initiatives supporting female entrepreneurs and the success rate of these businesses.
• [ ] Governance Metrics:
• [ ] Public Participation in Governance: This metric tracks initiatives to increase public participation in governance, such as community consultations, participatory budgeting, and public referendums.
• [ ] Impact Metrics:
• [ ] Impact on Local Economy: This metric measures the organization's contribution to the local economy, such as job creation and local procurement.
• [ ] Financial metrics:
• [ ] Return on Investment (ROI): This is a performance measure used to evaluate the efficiency of an investment or compare the efficiency of a number of different investments. ROI tries to directly measure the amount of return on a particular investment, relative to the investment’s cost.
• [ ] Earnings Before Interest, Taxes, Depreciation, and Amortization (EBITDA): This is a measure of a company's operating performance. Essentially, it's a way to evaluate a company's performance without having to factor in financing decisions, accounting decisions, or tax environments.
• [ ] Net Profit Margin: This is equal to how much net income or profit is generated as a percentage of revenue. Net profit margin is the ratio of net profits to revenues for a company or business segment.
• [ ] Debt to Equity Ratio (D/E): This ratio is used to identify the financial leverage of the company. It is most useful to compare the debt-to-equity ratio of different companies within the same industry.
• [ ] Current Ratio: This is a liquidity ratio that measures a company's ability to pay short-term obligations or those due within one year. It tells investors and analysts how a company can maximize the current assets on its balance sheet to satisfy its current debt and other payables.
• [ ] Working Capital Ratio: Another financial metric to understand the short-term financial health of a company. It's calculated as Current Assets minus Current Liabilities. A positive working capital ratio indicates that the company can pay off its short-term liabilities comfortably, while a negative ratio indicates the opposite.
• [ ] Price/Earnings (P/E) Ratio: This ratio is used by investors and analysts to determine the relative value of a company's shares in an apples-to-apples comparison. It can also be used to compare a company against its own historical record or to compare aggregate markets against one another or over time.

METHODOLOGY 4 METRIC LIBRARY:

1. Varied types of metrics (environmental, social, etc.), skewed slightly towards environmental and social, and including some more financial metrics
2. Heavier on the strictly quantitative metrics (reporting in numbers, not yes/no)