Best-Practice EVA tells the new EVA story from the ground up. Stewart covers EVA essentials—the classic economic profit version of EVA—in the first three chapters of the book. He shows readers how simple and intuitive EVA really is, how it is defined, and why it is better than all other measures of corporate profit. You discover how it naturally guides managers into making all the right decisions—the ones that will truly maximize value.

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"This book addresses the entire spectrum of investing and is focused toward seed and early-stage venture investments. Raising a fund, sourcing and investing, and exits are interlinked aspects of the VC business. After reading the insights of various practitioners, aspirants will be able to appreciate the intricacies of the venture capital business and have a stronger understanding of the basics"--

The only nonprofit management book you must have-in an exciting new edition. As a nonprofit manager, you have to be more effective and more efficient than ever to win funding and support to ensure your organization pursues its mission, meets community needs, and maintains its budget, while juggling the demands of funders, clientele, boards, staff, and community. This Third Edition of “Mission-Based Management” provides comprehensive, hands-on...

Consumers are rapidly leaving their banks in favor of institutions that are lower-cost and more consumer-centric - and flocking to new institutions that are not even banks but possess a superior customer proposition. Electronic payments are the future. Thought leader in financial innovation for PayPal Dan Schatt covers what banks must learn to compete and thrive in this new environment. This book covers: Industry leaders PayPal, Google, Square, and...

George Schultze truly loves what he does as a major player in the distressed investing world. As the portfolio manager for Schultze Asset Management, he and his team have over $250 million in funds under management. They have a strong background in perfecting strategy by analzying the true value of distressed companies, and have been honing a successful approach to making money on financially troubled companies for years. Recently, George was thrust...

MarketPsych: How to Manage Fear and Build Your Investor Identity is designed to be a practical guide for financial advisors to learn about the most important, and most ignored, aspect of their work psychology. This book makes the theoretical practical by translating it into concrete tools and techniques designed specifically for financial advisors. The MarketPsych Handbook contains practical worksheets and planning tools that affect all aspects of...

The idea of a firm’s competitive life-cycle and its stock valuation is based on the premise that competition and capital flows operate over the longer term to force companies’ economic returns toward the cost of capital. In a nutshell, the pattern of corporate economic returns and reinvestment rates reflects an unending struggle between managerial skills and competition over time. To maintain well above average economic returns and reinvestment...

Distress Investing is a comprehensive guide to distress investing around the world. Increasingly, corporate rehabilitation is more interesting than corporate liquidation to governments and capital markets. And increasingly a mezzanine industry of mutual funds, hedge funds, and private investors has stepped up to fill the role of the traditional corporate lender. This book covers distress investing from theoretical underpinnings to practical applications....