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Thanks, but I don't see "turnover" on there. As far as I've ever seen, turnover refers to personnel changes.

Also: Gotta love how someone downvoted this simple observation. Go back to Reddit, whoever you are.

Where I'm from it also means revenue. I have edited my comment above

Got it. Where are you from?

Not GP, but I'm in the UK and turnover when expressed as a monetary amount means revenue.

Appears to be an Asian and European term.

https://www.investopedia.com/terms/t/turnover.asp

Thanks. Seems less informative than terms like "revenue." I wonder what term Europeans and Asians use for personnel turnover.

Thats also turnover, but usually a smaller number or a percentage

That would be personnel/employee turnover.

So I simplified a bit. Overall turnover is the same as revenue. Usually turnover is referred to as a ratio of accounts payable actually paid in a period or stock sold in a period.

Personnel turnover is also not an absolute number but a ratio of people to people leaving. So in this case turnover is the same as they are ratios but for personnel rather than widgets.

Hopefully that makes sense.

Thanks!

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