Theoretical and Applied Economics
No. 1 / 2006 (496)
Measuring the Company Performance
Academia de Studii Economice Bucuresti
Abstract. According to the logics of the efficient capital investment, the management of the investment of the saving capital in the company’s assets must conclude, on the end of the financial year, with a plus of real value (NPV > 0). From this point of view, in this paper we suggest the usage of an investment valuation model for the assessment of the company managerial and technological performance. Supposing the book value is a proxy of the just value (of assets and operational results) and supposing the capital cost is correctly estimated, we evaluate the company’s performance both by the net present value model, and also by the company’s ability to create a surplus of the invested capital (NPV >0). Our paper also aims to identify the performance of the financial breakeven point (for which NPV is at least equal to zero) as the minimum acceptable level for the company’s activity. Under this critical sales point, the company goes through the undervaluation of shareholders fortune even if the company’s sales are greater than accounting breakeven point. The performance’s activity level is one which the managers recover and surpass the cost of capital, cost which stand for the normal activity benchmark. The risks of applying of our suggested model we support go down to the confidence of accounting data and of the cost of capital estimating. In spite all of this, the usage of a sensitivity analysis to search an average NPV would leads to the company’s performance valuation within investment logic with a high information power.
Contents
Limits of Inflation Targeting Strategy
Measuring the Company Performance
Higher Economic Education System. A Postindustrial Approach
Short-run and Current Analysis Model in Statistics
The Structural Convergence of the Romanian Economy. Comparative Analysis
„Uthopia – The Castle with Dreams and Hopes”
Testing the Informational Efficiency on the Romanian Financial Market
The Knowledge Economy – New Economy?
The Evolution of the Romanian Capital Market – Limits and Performances
Human Resources and the Competitive Organizational Management
Re-spiritualization in the Changing Process by Creativity, Responsability, Hope
A New Approach in Rentability and Capital Risk Management
A New Agenda for Economic Science
Asymmetrical Information and Uncertainty on the Capital Market
Economic Growth Models Transition
Challenges in Global Economy
Public Economy versus Planned Economy. Current Approaches and Problems
The Deadlock of Sustainable Development
The Dichotomy Real – Nominal in Romanian Economy Evolution
The Rational Relevance of the Diffuse Paradigms