Financial Performance Measures and Value Creation: the State of the Art

• Main Author: Venanzi, Daniela (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Milano : Springer Milan, 2012.
• Series: SpringerBriefs in Business
• Subjects: Finance.; Management.; Leadership.; Finance, general.; Business Strategy/Leadership.

The choice of financial performance measures is one of the most critical challenges facing organizations. The accounting-based measures of financial performance have been viewed as inadequate, as firms began focusing on shareholder value as the primary long-term objective of the organization. Hence,...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction
• Criticism of the accounting-based measures of performance
• Competing financial performance measures.– The metrics war
• Concluding remarks: strengths and weaknesses of the economic value measures.– Appendices
• References.