Business Development
How much did the company spend on business development?
About the data
Business development involves the development of products and services, their delivery, design and their implementation. Business development includes a number of techniques designed to grow an economic enterprise. Such techniques include, but are not limited to, assessments of marketing opportunities and target markets, intelligence gathering on customers and competitors, generating leads for possible sales, follow-up sales activity, formal proposal writing and business model design. Business development involves evaluating a business and then realizing its full potential, using such tools as marketing, sales, information management and customer service.
Methodology
Companies should report their financial performance in their annual financial reports, and these are the best places to find this information.
For companies that file with the SEC, this information can be found within their "Form 10-K" filings. You can often find these documents by searching for "Company 10-k", or they can be found through the SEC's EDGAR search.
Value Type
Money
Unit
USD
Options
Research Policy
Community Assessed
Report Type
Form 10-K