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In corporate finance, you measure all this mathematically in order to assess the success of the corporate organization, evaluate the outcome of potential decisions, and optimize the efforts of those people who form economic relationships, even if for just a moment, as they exchange goods, services, and value in a never-ending series of financial transactions. The financial decisions made collectively form a trend of behaviors that can be analyzed using any of several types of indicators:

 Leading indicators: Leading indicators include any measures of macroeconomic data that indicate what the health of the economy will look like in the immediate future, including new unemployment claims, for example.

 Coincident indicators: Coincident indicators are measures of macroeconomic data that indicate the health of the economy now. One example is new industrial production.

 Lagging indicators: Lagging indicators are indicators that tend to confirm what the economy has already begun to do, such as duration of unemployment.