5 Measuring Financial Performance

A new value-based revolution in finance is providing a practical framework that managers can use to build a premium-valued company.

—G. Bennett Stewart III

If you had to pick at least one area of your company’s scorekeeping approach where you have good measures, it would be financial, right? Chances are you have no shortage of financial data on the traditional measures: profit, ROI, income, expenses, cash flow, stock prices, accounts receivable, accounts payable, and so on. Every business is required to keep certain financial records for tax purposes, but doesn’t that mean that these are the right measures for running a business? Not necessarily. The problem with most companies’ approach to measuring financial ...

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