The Economic Value added Between Supporters and Opponents


Abstract in English

This paper reinvestigate the Economic Value Added(EVA), as a performance measure of the organization's ability to create value. This measure is suggested to be used as an alternative to the traditionally indicators based on the profitability of these organizations. The paper introduce the concept of EVA, the reasons of its appearance from both theoretically and accounting view, the positive and negative points resulting from the use of it by reviewing the most important studies on practical experiences of this measure. The application of this measure has been done on the companies which is listed in the Egypt Stock Exchange, to study the relationship between this measure and share price, and the extent of its ability to interpret the changes in the prices of shares of these companies during the period 2011-2014. The study concluded that there are no statistically significant differences between the stock prices of these companies and the economic value added, and therefore the ineffectiveness of this measure as atool to evaluate the performance of these companies and motivate managers.

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