Best-Practice EVA / Wiley Finance Editions (PDF)

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 it gets bigger when EVA
does, which means it should be every company's most important
financial goal, the one ratio metric that everyone aims to maximize
as the key measure of corporate success. Stewart then walks through
the nuts and bolts of Best-Practice EVA, kicking off with an
in-depth look at EVA Margin, or EVA as a percent of sales.
It's a key productivity metric, and Stewart's candidate
to replace ROI. The last link in the Best-Practice program is
PRVit--the EVA market score report. Stewart shows how to read
and interpret the report, how the score is determined, and why
investors are turning to it to screen and rate stocks. He also
shows why it is finding a home with CFOs and IR directors who want
insights into how the market is pricing their stock. The book
concludes with battle-tested tips from the firing line, practical
suggestions for how you can test drive and adopt Best-Practice EVA
at your company.