Every term is defined twice: once the way a filing would put it, and once the way somebody would explain it to you across a table. The second one is usually the one that sticks.
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How a company turns what it does into money: what it sells, to whom, on what payment terms, and at what cost to serve them.
The plain-language description that has to come before any ratio. If you can only repeat the company’s own marketing sentence, you do not have one yet.
A business model requiring little fixed capital to grow.
High returns on a small balance sheet, and a book value that tells you almost nothing about what the business is worth.
The founding individual, family or group that controls a listed Indian company.
The dominant owner. In India their integrity often matters more than the business model.