I guess you could argue that using Profitability as a metric as a guide to how succesful the hiring strategy was?
I wouldn't, but you could...
I wouldn't, but you could...
Sure, an accountant will be able to give you an answer how one individual human or piece of equipment contributed to the result. It will be a different one depending on what you need the number for though (to calculate taxes? to make an investment decision? to allocate production resources?), and it is quite arbitrary.