Value above cost : driving superior financial performance with CVA, the most important metric you've never used
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Value above cost : driving superior financial performance with CVA, the most important metric you've never used
FT Press, c2009
- : hbk.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 311-328) and index
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Description
This book systematically explains how to maximize shareholder value. Columbia University's Don Sexton fully identifies the real drivers of shareholder value, unifying key concepts from marketing, branding, economics, management, finance, accounting, and statistics. Sexton introduces a powerful new metric: Customer Value Added (CVA), the difference between customer-perceived value and variable cost per unit. Next, he demonstrates CVA at work, presents research and case studies that prove its value, and shows how to use it to consistently measure, manage, and optimize profit, cash flow, and shareholder value. Readers will learn why CVA works; how to measure it; how changes in CVA correlate to changes in profits and cash flow; and how to use CVA to steer the enterprise. Along the way, Sexton illuminates CVA's key implications for managers, including why managers must focus attention simultaneously on both customers and costs, and why well-publicized "generic strategies" such as "net recommend" offer only part of the solution. Finally, drawing on his own extensive experience consulting on CVA and related issues, Sexton presents easy-to-use worksheets for translating CVA concepts into reality in your own organization.
Table of Contents
Foreword xviii
Acknowledgments xx
About the Author xxi
Chapter 1: Marketing and Financial Performance 1
Chapter 2: How CVA (R) Affects Financial Performance 33
Chapter 3: CVA (R) over Time 65
Chapter 4: Perceived Value 89
Chapter 5: Costs 127
Chapter 6: Managing CVA (R) 151
Chapter 7: Managing CVA (R) over Time 181
Chapter 8: Utilizing CVA (R) for Strategic Decisions 211
Chapter 9: Utilizing CVA (R) for Marketing Program Decisions 247
Chapter 10: Building the Marketing Accountability Scorecard 275
Chapter 11: Organizing to Manage CVA (R) 293
Endnotes 311
Index 329
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