type="main" <p>In Finance 101, future corporate managers are taught that the social mission of public companies is to maximize their own longrun (or “intrinsic”) value by investing in all positive net present value (NPV) projects—that is, projects that are expected to earn at least their...</p>

Kevin Kaiser and Aris Stouraitis present preliminary evidence on stock market reaction to divestiture announcements by European firms. Included in their sample are divestitures by French, German, Swedish and UK firms. Their findings include: (1) stock price reaction during initial announcements...

This article examines the changing role of financial accounting in the former East Germany as that country underwent the transition from a centrally planned to a market-driven economy. The German government's insistence on a sales model of privatization in preference to some form of mass...

Despite the wide acceptance of DCF valuation and its corollary that value is created only by earning more than the cost of capital, very few companies use performance measures that focus on corporate efficiency in using capital-measures such as return on capital (ROC) or economic value added...

This article argues that the Expectations-Based Management (EBM) measure proposed by Copeland and Dolgoff (in the previous article) is essentially the same measure that EVA companies have used for years as the basis for performance evaluation and incentive compensation. After pointing out that...

This paper assesses the ability of financial statement variables to forecast sensitivities to systematic risk factors generated by a multifactor, macroeconomic forces model. Forecasts of beta derived from financial variables are shown to outperform naive, random walk forecasts, although...

The authors start by showing that six factors-responsibility (i.e., position and company size), industry, pay inflation, business risk, performance and company pay policy-explain over 75% of the variation in the pay of top-five U.S. executives for a sample of 75,000 cases during the years...

There is little agreement about either the effect of executive compensation on corporate performance or the best way to measure the strength of executive incentives. With little guidance from academic research, managers and directors continue to rely heavily on the percentage of pay "at risk" as...