Intensity

1. Financial measures - financial ratios.

A measurement of the relative amount of an item - or an impact - compared with relevant financial performance.

For example an organisation with a high level of capital intensity is one that uses a relatively larger amount of capital.

Taking another example, carbon intensity measures an organisation's level of greenhouse gas emissions, as a proportion of its financial and economic activity levels.

2. Competition - regulation - supervision.

The degree of challenge and energy associated with competitive forces, or with supervision by a regulator.

See also

• Capital intensity
• Carbon intensity
• Competition
• EP&L intensity
• Financial ratio
• Impact intensity of profits
• Impact-weighted accounts
• Porter
• Regulation
• Supervision