Best practice EVA: the definitive guide to measuring and maximizing shareholder value

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Best-Practice EVA tells the new EVA story from the ground up. Stewart covers EVA essentials--the classic economic profit version of EVA--in the first three chapters of the book. He shows readers how simple and intuitive EVA really is, how it is defined, and why it is better than all other measures of corporate profit. You discover how it naturally guides managers into making all the right decisions--the ones that will truly maximize value. You see how to use it in profit-sharing bonus plans that create the powerful incentives of an owner. Later, Stewart introduces new ratios that make EVA much more powerful and much easier to use than ever before. The pinnacle of the new ratio framework is EVA Momentum, calculated by taking the change in EVA versus the prior period, and dividing by the revenues in the prior period. It measures the growth rate in EVA, scaled to the sales size of the business. It is the only corporate performance ratio where bigger always is better, because... Preface ix CHAPTER 1 EVA 101 1 CHAPTER 2 EVA and Value 19 CHAPTER 3 Accounting for Value 47 CHAPTER 4 What s Wrong with RONA? 85 CHAPTER 5 The New EVA Ratio Metrics 99 CHAPTER 6 EVA Margin 123 CHAPTER 7 Setting EVA Targets 157 CHAPTER 8 Put Momentum into Planning 191 CHAPTER 9 Dividing Multiples into Good and Bad 217 CHAPTER 10 Put EVA into Capital Decisions and Acquisitions 223 CHAPTER 11 EVA and the Buy Side 245 CHAPTER 12 Become a Best-Practice EVA Company 273 APPENDIX A The Best-Practice EVA Software Toolkit 287 APPENDIX B Corrective Accounting Adjustments 291 APPENDIX C Accounting for Corporate Charges in Detail 295 Glossary 299 About the Author 313 Index 315