Online Economic Value Added (EVA) Lessons

 
 

Economic Value Added (EVA) Financial Management System Lessons Online

Economic Value Added (EVA) is today's hottest financial management system and it is getting hotter.

Stewart developed the foundation of economic value added (EVA) model, the financial management system and incentive system has been adopted more than 300 companies world wide and continue growing to becoming global standard for corporate governance.

Value Investing Using EVA Model

Want to understand what determine stock prices? and what are the main ingredients to determining value? what is Warren Buffett  investing philosophy? You will get all the answers here and this will lay the foundation of advance or sophisticated investing methodology - value investing using EVA model.

You need to able to read and understanding financial statements, know how to compute and analysis financial ratios are the prerequisite of further study on value investing using economic value added (EVA) model.

So, what is economic value added (EVA)? EVA is equal to return on invested capital (ROIC) minus weighted average cost of capital (WACC). A company earning ROIC more than it WACC are called creating value to it shareholders. A breakdown structure of ROIC diagram may give you better picture on the ingredients of ROIC or what make up the ROIC.

Return on invested capital (ROIC) is equal to Net Operating Profit After Taxes (NOPAT) divided by the invested capital.

Accounting Adjustments for NOPAT and INVESTED CAPITAL

Calculating Net operating profit after taxes (NOPAT) and invested capital require some accounting adjustment of income taxes, deferred taxes and other financial data in financial report. Understanding several concept will help you to do the accounting adjustment more comfortably as listed below:

Accounting Adjustments for Income Taxes and Deferred Taxes