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Average registered number of employees
The average registered number of employees includes all permanent and temporary employees (irrespective of nationality), who have employment, service or member relationship with the reporting unit (the employer), where the membership also includes employment.

Average registered number of workers
The sum of the average registered number of employees and owners of companies.

Wages (excluding other personnel costs)
Wages refer to remuneration for work (in money and also in kind) provided by the employer to employees kept in the employer’s registered numbers of employees. They exclude other personnel costs.

Other personnel costs
Remuneration for work, which is provided on the basis of relationship other than employment, service or member relationship with the employer.

Average monthly wage in CZK
Average monthly wage is calculated as follows: wage bill in CZK is divided by the number of employees (actual persons) and the number of months in reference period.

Sales, total
The sum of sales of own goods and services (include the difference in turnovers of credit and debit sides on accounts under account group 60 - and Sales of own outputs and goods for resale, excluding account 604 – Sales of goods for resale) and sales of goods for resale (include turnover difference between credit and debit sides on account 604).

Output
It includes trade margin (difference between revenues from sold goods and costs of goods sold), revenues from sales of own goods and services, change in in-house inventories of own production (includes the difference in turnovers of credit and debit sides on accounts under account group 61) and capitalisation (includes turnover difference between credit and debit sides on accounts under account group 62).

Production consumption
The difference in turnovers of credit and debit sides on accounts under account group 50 - Consumed purchases (excluding account 504 – Goods resold) and account group 51 – Services, i.e. consumption of deliveries of goods, outputs and services provided by external suppliers.

Book value added
Output minus production consumption.

Revenues, total
The difference in turnovers of credit and debit sides of account class 6 – Revenues.

Expenses, total
The difference in turnovers of credit and debit sides on accounts under account class 5 (before their transfer to profit and loss account’s debit), except for accounts 591 to 596.

Costs of goods sold
The difference in turnovers of credit and debit sides on account 504.

Pre-tax profit/loss
According to the Chart of Accounts and Accounting Procedures for Businessmen: the difference in turnovers of credit and debit sides of account class 6 – Revenues and account class 5 – Expenses (the difference in turnovers of credit and debit sides) with the exception of accounts 591 to 596.

End-of-period inventories
The indicator shows end-of-period balances on accounts 112, 119, 121 to 124, 132, and 139 after adjustments identified from accounts 191 to 196.

Acquisition of fixed assets, total
Included is capital expenditure made during the reference period to acquire intangible and tangible fixed assets by:
· purchasing or producing these assets on own account,
· gaining the right to use results produced by intellectual creative activity,
as well as the value of fixed assets acquired by free transfer under law or by transferring such an asset from personal to business use.
Therefore, the reported volume of fixed assets includes single or step-by-step-made capital expenditure irrespective of whether the assets were put in use in the period concerned or not.

Equity capital
Included are end-of-period balances on accounts under account groups 41 (minus own shares on account 252), 42, 43, and 49, and account classes 6 and 5, i.e. difference between credit and debit sides from beginning of year to end of period.

Cost profitability, %
It is the ratio of pre-tax profit/loss to total expenses.

Equity capital profitability, %
It is the ratio of pre-tax profit to equity capital.

Tonnage of goods carried
The indicator gives tonnes of goods carried in transport industry by means of transport in the reference period.

Loading, total
Tonnes of goods loaded into wagons in the reference period (national loading + loading of goods for export).

Tonne-kilometres, total
The indicator gives the output achieved in transporting goods by all types of transport in the reference period. The tonne-kilometre is a unit of output, defined as transport of 1 tonne of goods over a distance of 1 kilometre. In transport by rail, net (operating) tonne-kilometres or tariff tonne-kilometres are used, the former excluding empty wagons of carriers and the latter being based on transport of goods according to tariff distance.

Average transport distance
Goods transport: tonne-kilometres / tonnes of goods carried
Passenger transport: passenger-kilometres / no. of passengers transported

Passengers transported, total
The indicator shows the number of persons transported by means of transport in the reference period. Transport of persons refers to a spatial change of the traveller’s place effected by means of transport along transport route.

Passenger-kilometres, total
The indicator shows the amount of output related to transport of persons by all types of means of transport in the reference period. The passenger-kilometre is a unit of passenger transport output, defined as transport of 1 person over a distance of 1 kilometre.

Passengers transported in urban public transit
The indicator includes all persons carried in public operation of urban public transit in the framework of individual transport tractions.

Seat-kilometres in urban public transit
The indicator gives the offered capacity of motor or towed carriage in the reference period. The total number of seat-kilometres is the sum of seat-kilometres covered by individual transport tractions.