French: A périmètre comparableEnglish translation: like-for-like 
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| GLOSSARY ENTRY (DERIVED FROM QUESTION BELOW) | | French term or phrase: | à périmètre comparable | | English translation: | like-for-like | | Entered by: | VBaby |
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Bus/Financial - Accounting | | French term or phrase: A périmètre comparable | A périmètre comparable retraité sur les trois dernières années de l ’activité laboratoire de la societe, le chiffre d ’affaires consolidé international est de EUR 7,15 milliards de Francs.
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| | | like-for-like | Explanation:
A périmètre comparable means "like-for-like", i.e. comparing exactly the same activities over two periods of time.
This notion is useful when a company has been buying or selling activities, thereby rendering comparison of two sets of results difficult.
In this case: like-for-like sales
I would translate "retraité" (which means the original figures have been recalculated to provide a meaningful basis for comparison) as "pro-forma", hence "pro-forma like-for-like sales" |
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| "Given a comparable extent of company laboratory activities
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over the past three years..."
This is based on the monolingual definition of Robert for périmètre, econ.; "étendue du secteur d'activité d'une entreprise...". But since "activités" in your sentence occurs later on, I've turned it around a bit.
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| like-for-like
Explanation:
A périmètre comparable means "like-for-like", i.e. comparing exactly the same activities over two periods of time.
This notion is useful when a company has been buying or selling activities, thereby rendering comparison of two sets of results difficult.
In this case: like-for-like sales
I would translate "retraité" (which means the original figures have been recalculated to provide a meaningful basis for comparison) as "pro-forma", hence "pro-forma like-for-like sales"
Reference: http://www.finance-glossary.com/terms/11577.htm
Twelve years as a financial reporter
| VBaby
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| Note from asker to answerer| Thanks a lot. That sounds perfect! |
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| based on comparable/identical group structure
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Sorry to add this later, but based on experience I just have to say that I agree with Gillian above: if you're in consolidated accounts, the "périmètre" generally refers to the group structure, ie the companies included in it, and not the activities (even though the two may go together!. I would take your extract to mean "taking into account the same companies" over three years. Anyway like-for-like probably covers both!
own experience (comptes consolidés)
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