What Is Economic Value-Added (EVA) And The Comparision To Earnings Per Share Or Return On Assets

As part of the role to assist senior management,the financial executive needs to find the best metric to measure the financial performance of his organization.

Normally,many companies are still using Earnings per share,Returns on Assets as the key performance metric.

Introduction:

Economic value-added (EVA) has increasingly gain acceptance amongst many [...]

What is Timing Difference in Tax and Timing Differences Versus Permanent Differences

As the taxable profit is computed based on taxation laws which differ from the accounting policies applied to determine the accounting profit,hence the taxable profit and accounting profit can differ. The difference between taxable profit and accounting profit can be classified into:

permanent differences timing differences

This articles looks at the aforesaid differences and [...]

What is the Advantage(s) of Having Departmental Accounting

 This article looks at some of following reasons / justifications / advantages of having department accounts 

Advantages

      Each department is viewed as separate profit centre where department accounts is useful to evaluate performance of individual department by ascertaining trading,profit or loss of each department        The financial results namely [...]

What is the Difference Between Joint Venture And PartnershipWhat is the Difference Between Joint Venture And Partnership

For those unfamiliar between Joint Venture and Partnership,tabulated below in summary some of the differences:

Joint Venture

Partnership

What is Growth Companies?

Whilst analyzing the annual reports of companies,can we spot what are so called growth companies?

Let’s look at different definition or interpretation of growth companies from the view point of the following two great investors:

Benjamin Graham:-

considers it as a company that has performed better than the industry average over a period of [...]