The measure Net Value Created (NVC) captures periodic deviations of planned for and realized net present values at a specific reporting date. Therefore, NVC provides control-related signals about the company's performance additional to economic value added/residual income measures. In this paper...

We show that the usage of risk adjusted performance measures (RAPM), such as the RORAC or the RARORAC, as decision criterion for real investment decisions might favor projects that do not maximize shareholder value for project selection of mutually exclusive projects. We find that RAPM based on...