Zugl.: Augsburg, Universiẗat, Diss., 2004.

Master-Arbeit Univ. St. Gallen, 2007.

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EVA® is a performance metric that calculates the creation of shareholder value and is a registered trademark of Stern Stuart, New York. EVA® has been widely adopted by management when making decisions to increase productivity, where to invest new capital and which underperforming assets to liquidate. EVA® is also widely used by investors and analysts as a measure of company performance when deciding on which shares to invest in. While extensive research was done on EVA® and share price performance internationally, the aim of this research was to determine whether a positive EVA® leads to growth in its share price, specifically for retail and banking shares listed on the Johannesburg Securities Exchange (JSE). The banking and retail sector was selected as both these sectors experience favourable growth in terms of turnover during decreasing interest rate periods and unfavourable growth during increasing interest rate periods. Thus EVA® was selected as one of the better performance measures to use to show true operating performance. Statistical tests were done on turnover growth rates, EVA® growth rates, EVA® and Turnover, EVA® and Share Price growth and finally EVA® and other common performance measures. Common performance measures were limited to Price/Earnings, Earnings Per Share, Return On Assets and Earnings Before Interest, Tax, Depreciation and Amortisation. After analysis of the results, it was found that turnover growth rates were statistically similar for the banking sector during the period 1998 to 2007, but not for the retail sector. Leading on from that it was found that share price correlates well with EVA® for the banking sector however not for the retail sector. The study also further revealed that none of the common performance measures correlated well with EVA for both the banking and retail sector. Copyright / Dissertation (MBA)--University of Pretoria, 2010. / Gordon Institute of Business Science (GIBS) / unrestricted

Thesis (MBA)--Stellenbosch University, 2015. / ENGLISH ABSTRACT: When it comes to risk management, academic opinion is divided into two camps. There are those who argue that risk management is a waste of resources and time, and that in spite of all the effort invested, it does not add any economic value to an organisation. On the other hand, there are those who believe that risk management not only safeguards, but also actively contributes to the value of an organisation. This study was an attempt to obtain empirical evidence from the South African sector to support one of the two abovementioned arguments. In doing so the study addresses the research problems of whether risk management and specifically Enterprise Risk Management, creates value for an organisation, and whether the fact that a company has a risk management program in place should influence investor decisions The study was conducted in the following way: Measurements of the maturity of the risk management systems and the implementation dates of these systems were obtained from the senior managers of a number of organisations by means of a questionnaire. This data was then compared with annual measurements of the value of these organisations that were taken between 2000 and 2013. To determine if there was a relationship between the value of an organisation and the risk management maturity tests were conducted to look for the following: i. A statistically significant relationship between the most recent measure of organisational value and the maturity of risk management. ii. A statistically significant relationship between risk management maturity and the most recent rate of organisational value increase. iii. A discernible difference between the rate of organisational value change before and after the implementation of an Enterprise Risk Management system. iv. A statistically significant relationship between risk management maturity and organisational value subsequent to the introduction of an Enterprise Risk Management system. The study found evidence of a significant gain in the rate of organisational value increase directly subsequent to the introduction of an Enterprise Risk Management system, but also that the increased rate was not sustained. Other tests yielded contradictory or indecisive results that did not lead to clear conclusions, but illuminated future research directions.

Šiandieninėje ekonominėje situacijoje, pasauliui išgyvenant globalios finansų krizės padarinius, stiprėjant konkurencijai rinkose, kai konkurentai dėl rinkos dalies griebiasi nesąžiningų kovos priemonių, tokių kaip kainų dempingavimas ir pan., kiekvienas įmonės vadovų sprendimas turi būti vertinamas ekonominio efektyvumo aspektu, t.y. ar bus pasekoje sukurta papildoma vertė įmonei. Tradiciniai įmonės finansinę situaciją apibūdinantys grynojo pelno bei pardavimų rodikliai neatskleidžia tikrosios situacijos. Tuo tarpu ekonominės pridėtosios vertės EVA rodiklis skatina įmones efektyviai panaudoti ne tik skolintą, bet ir nuosavą kapitalą. Viena didžiausių problemų ta, kad dauguma Lietuvos įmonių vadovų, pasirinkusių įmonės vertinimui naudoti EVA, praktiškai nežino, kaip teisingai apskaičiuoti šį rodiklį, kaip teisingai nustatyti įmonės valdomo kapitalo kainą, nesugeba identifikuoti vertei darančių įtaką veiksnių ir susieti sprendimų priėmimo su bendru įmonės tikslu – kaip didinti EVA. Tyrimo objektas – vidutinio dydžio gamybinė įmonė UAB „TECA“. Šio darbo tikslas – atskleisti įmonės vertės kūrimo ekonominę prasmę ir svarbą, išanalizuoti rodiklio EVA koncepciją, jo pritaikymą ir diegimą Lietuvos įmonėje. Šiam tikslui pasiekti iškelti šie svarbiausi uždaviniai: • Atskleisti vertės sampratą ir vertės nustatymo problemą; • Pristatyti ekonominio pelno – EVA rodiklio – koncepciją, palyginti su tradiciniais pelnu pagrįstais įmonės veiklos vertinimo rodikliais; • Išanalizuoti EVA... [toliau žr. visą tekstą] / In today‘s economical situation, when world suffers from the consequences of global financial crisis, when competition increases in the markets, when competitors take unfair means of rivalry for the part of the market, such as price dumping and similar, when each decision of companies’ heads should be evaluated at the aspect of economical efficiency, i.e. whether consequently is going to be created an additional value for the company. Traditional indicators, defining financial situation of the company, of net profit and sales do not reveal real situation. Meanwhile economic value added EVA index motivates companies to efficiently use both not only the borrowed but also own capital. One of the biggest problems is that most Lithuanian companies’ heads, who for the evaluation of company choose EVA, practically do not know how to calculate this index correctly, how to determine correctly the price of company‘s controlled capital, are not able to identify factors, influencing value and to interconnect taking decisions with general aim of the company – how to increase EVA. Object of the research – medium manufacturing company UAB “TECA”. The aim of the thesis – is to reveal economical meaning and importance of creation of company value, to analyze the conception of EVA index, and its application and implementation in Lithuanian company. For the achievement of the aim there are being set the following most important tasks: • To reveal the concept of value and the problem of value... [to full text]

El objetivo general del trabajo de investigación es determinar la influencia de las herramientas financieras en la toma de decisiones, para ello se ha tomado como objeto de estudio a la empresa Agrumaq S.A.C. realizado una encuesta al personal seleccionado en la muestra, con la finalidad de analizar las variables “Herramientas financieras” y “Toma de decisiones”. The general objective of the research work is to determine the influence of financial tools in decision making, for this purpose the company Agrumaq S.A.C. conducted a survey of the personnel selected in the sample, with the purpose of analyzing the variables "Financial tools" and "Decision making".

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Title: CSR and profitability in three dimensions – practical examples, Economic Value Added and previous research Authors: Linda-Marie Emilsson & Martina Classon Subject: Business Administration Date: 2011-05-26 Mentor: Krister Bredmar Problem description: Scientists have for a very long time disagreed about whether or not companies should work with Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) and if there is any correlation between CSR and profitability. There are mainly three different views according the correlation: CSR have a neutral impact on financial performance, CSR have a positive impact on profitability and CSR have a negative impact on profitability. One of the reasons behind the disagreement is the complexity measuring CSR. Scientist claims that EVA is a measure that can be used to measure the correlation between CSR and profitability.         Purpose: The intention with our essay is to find out if there is any correlation between CSR and profitability. Another intention with our paper is to find out what kind of potential competitive advantages CSR is creating for a company. Method: To achieve the intention the study is based on an inductive approach and a combination of qualitative and quantitative strategies. The empirical data consists of interviews with our respondents and the calculation of the selected companies EVA-value from historical financial statements.   Conclusions: The calculation of Economic Value Added shows a low positive correlation between profitability and CSR. But previous research and the practical examples from the selected companies shows a strong positive correlation between CSR and profitability. The three dimensions together shows that CSR creates value and positively affect the financial performance, due to that we claim a positive correlation between CSR and profitability. CSR is also creating competitive advantages for companies by improving reputation and image, attracting workers, keeping and attracting new customers and also by reducing costs due to eco-efficiency. / Titel: CSR och lönsamhet i tre dimensioner – praktiska exempel, Economic Value Added och tidigare forskning Författare: Linda-Marie Emilsson & Martina Classon Ämne: Företagsekonomi Datum: 2011-05-26 Handledare: Krister Bredmar Problem: Forskare har länge varit oeniga huruvida företag ska ägna sig åt Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) samt om det ger lönsamhet och konkurrensfördelar. Det finns framförallt tre motstridiga synsätt vad gäller kopplingen mellan CSR och lönsamhet: CSR står i motsättning till lönsamhet, CSR skapar lönsamhet eller att CSR inte har någon påverkan på lönsamheten. En av anledningarna till de olika synsätten är att mätningar av CSR är svåra och resultaten varierar därför brett. Många mätningar på CSR:s koppling till lönsamhet har gjorts med hjälp av traditionella lönsamhetsmått. Forskare anser dock att EVA är ett mer relevant prestationsmått i dagens kontext vid mätning av CSR. Syfte: Syftet mer vår uppsats är att finna svar på om det finns en koppling mellan CSR och lönsamhet utifrån EVA, praktiska exempel från intervjuer med studiens respondenter och tidigare forskning. Vi har också för avsikt att finna de potentiella konkurrensfördelar som ett CSR-arbete inom företaget kan bidra till. Metod: För att uppnå vårt syfte har vår studie utgått ifrån en induktiv ansats med en kombination av kvalitativt och kvantitativt angreppssätt. Den empiriska insamlingen har präglats av intervjuer med våra respondenter samt beräkning av EVA utifrån de utvalda företagens historiska årsredovisningar. Slutsatser: EVA-beräkningen visade en svag positiv korrelation mellan CSR och lönsamhet sett ur ett utvecklingsperspektiv. Tidigare forskning och empirisk insamling av praktiska exempel samt erfarenheter har dock åskådliggjort en starkare positiv koppling. Utifrån dessa tre dimensioner anser vi därför att vi har stöd att påstå att det föreligger en positiv koppling mellan CSR och lönsamhet. CSR kan vidare ge konkurrensfördelar genom att företaget attraherar kompetent personal, attraherar och behåller kunder, skapar en positiv relation till media, ökar ryktet och imagen samt genom eko-effektiva åtgärder som minskar företagets kostnader.