Increasing the Value of Your Enterprise Through Improved Supply Chain Decisions
Part 2: Financial Metrics
Mark Wells - November 12, 2002

Financial Metrics that Equate to Corporate Performance

Corporate performance has been defined in numerous ways. Economic Value Added (EVA?), Economic Profit, Owners Earnings, Residual Income, and Economic Value Management are .are intended as comprehensive evaluations of corporate performance. Other measures such as return on investment (ROI) and earnings per share (EPS) can leave out the cost of the capital required to achieve the return or earnings. Economic Value Added illustrates a measure of comprehensive corporate performance that is determined by the combination of financial metrics...