Value-Based Management

Context and Application Value-Based Management Edited by Glen Arnold and Matt Davies Over the past ten years hundreds of leading companies worldwide have adopted the principles of value-based management (VBM), an approach to corporate strategy and business organisation in which the primary objective is always shareholder wealth maximisation. As VBM has become more widespread the idea of shareholder value has become integral to business. Consultancies have prospered by selling prescriptions for developing a value-oriented firm and managers thought to be excellent in generating shareholder value are held in high esteem and command huge salaries. This book draws on empirical evidence to demonstrate the success of VBM ideas as well as highlighting many of the hidden questions, doubts and difficulties. It examines the validity of some of the underlying assumptions of VBM and tackles many of the key technical issues. This book provides a timely assessment of the theory and practice of VBM as it grows to maturity.

Context and Application Value-Based Management Edited by Glen Arnold and Matt Davies Over the past ten years hundreds of leading companies worldwide have adopted the principles of value-based management (VBM), an approach to corporate strategy and business organisation in which the primary objective is always shareholder wealth maximisation. As VBM has become more widespread the idea of shareholder value has become integral to business. Consultancies have prospered by selling prescriptions for developing a value-oriented firm and managers thought to be excellent in generating shareholder value are held in high esteem and command huge salaries. This book draws on empirical evidence to demonstrate the success of VBM ideas as well as highlighting many of the hidden questions, doubts and difficulties. It examines the validity of some of the underlying assumptions of VBM and tackles many of the key technical issues. This book provides a timely assessment of the theory and practice of VBM as it grows to maturity.

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This book uses some of the first empirical evidence available to assess the theory and practice of VBM<-->a business strategy and organization approach in which shareholder wealth maximization is the primary objective. Topics of the sixteen chapters include VBM's development; a review of VMB in practice, based on literature, surveys, and case studies; challenges to VMB, including one by a stakeholder; economic added value (EVA) and other approaches to performance measurement; the shareholder value concept in the banking business; lessons from the experiences of Lloyds TSB, one of Britain's largest companies and one of the first to adopt VBM; and accounting measurement policies and difficulties. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Glen Arnold is a lecturer in Finance and Value-based Strategy at Aston Business School, Birmingham. He is the author of the best-selling UK-based corporate finance textbook Corporate Financial Management, Glen has considerable experience teaching, researching and publishing in the areas of investment, corporate finance and strategy. Matt Davies is a Director of ATC Limited, a company which specialises in providing financial training and consultancy. Before that he spent six years as a member of the Finance and Accounting Group at Aston Business School, where his speciality was shareholder value and value-based management. Matt is coauthor of Shareholder Value, which was published by the Financial Times in 1997. He is currently researching the use of value-based management within top UK companies.