Best-Practice EVA

When it was introduced by Bennett Stewart in the early 1990s, EVA (short for economic value added) made headlines in the business press, with pundits enthusiastically touting it as the be-all and end-all metric of enterprise value creation. Soon, EVA was being embraced by many of the world's most powerful corporations as an indispensable tool for measuring business performance and strategy outcomes. At the same time, many investors and analysts came to rely on EVA in place of traditional metrics, such as EPS and P/E ratio. But over time, several shortcomings in EVA became apparent-shortcomings that rendered EVA unwieldy and somewhat impractical for business managers and equity analysts alike. Enter Best-Practice EVA. Not simply a new iteration of EVA-EVA 2.0, if you will-but a quantum leap forward, Best-Practice EVA brings together powerful new tools and processes for measuring and improving the wealth-creation strategies and decisions of enterprises, while making EVA more intuitive, transparent, and simpler to use than ever before. The official user's manual to understanding and using Best-Practice EVA, this book is far from academic. It is leavened with the author's energetic and engaging style, and brimming with telling anecdotes and case examples from companies as diverse as Amazon.com and Tiffany that: Show why EVA is the best tool to help CFOs and line teams measure and improve the value of business plans, investment projects, acquisitions, and decisions of all kinds Introduce EVA Momentum, an alternative to ROI and a powerful diagnostic tool that connects value creation to specific performance levers managers can understand and control Distill the power of EVA into a simple profit-sharing bonus formula that almost every company can use to turn managers into charged-up owner-operators Arm investors with proven EVA metrics that can predict share prices and isolate valuation pressure points, including a precise formula for using EVA to explain total shareholder returns Outline techniques for using EVA ratios to set more credible and actionable corporate performance targets Describe how to use EVA to repair the inherent flaws in conventional accounting profit measures and better reveal the true value of business decisions Unveil a present-value version of the EVA profit margin that replaces IRR and helps managers more accurately rate capital projects and evaluate any business decision in which cost-benefit trade-offs spread out over time and across income statement and balance sheet effects Provide powerful new valuation multiples that offer reality checks on valuations and plan projections The official how-to guide for the powerful new generation of EVA tools and techniques, Best-Practice EVA: The Definitive Guide to Measuring and Maximizing Shareholder Value is an indispensable working resource for business executives and managers, finance professionals, board members, and institutional investors alike.