EVA Dimensions

Top Ten Benefits:

• establish a common language and common financial mission that unites everyone in a common quest for value
• enhance firm-wide ability to allocate, manage, and redeploy capital resources of all kinds – tangible and intangible
• superior metrics to drive incentives and motivate the best, most value-adding decisions
• increase business and financial literacy
• upgrade to state-of-the art performance management supported by real financial intelligence accurately consolidate income efficiency, balance sheet asset management, and profitable growth, restructuring and outsourcing initiatives into a single decisive score
• apply a broad-gauged, value-anchored management scorecard
• meaningful, structured and comprehensive benchmarking with peers and the market
• value anything – projects, plans, acquisitions, decisions – with complete clarity, confidence and consistency
• set challenging but realistic financial targets that are objectively and credibly tied to owner expectations
• reduce planning iterations while making planning more imaginative, strategic and truly value-focused

Top Ten Results:

• simplify communication, speed decision-making, enhance accountability
• increase nimbleness, reduce reaction time
• cross-departmental cooperation to improve overall economic value rather than parochial micro-metrics
• ability to decentralize decision authority closer to where the information and initiative lies
• better understanding of key value drivers, and comparative strengths and weaknesses
• spot, rank, and execute performance improvement opportunities that range over the entire income statement and balance sheet
• better process to value and consummate winning acquisitions that achieve real synergies
• reduce pressure to meet short-term earnings goals at expense of long-term strategic value
• better communication with and support from the board of directors
• enhance communication with investors, and the real quality of corporate governance