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This paper aims to provide a foundation for the notion of economic rate of return and investigate its relations with accounting rates of return. Introducing the notion of depreciation class (the set of depreciation schedules with the same aggregate book value) it is shown that the mean of the...
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This paper deals with the problem of modelling in a formal way the concept of excess profit, also known as residual … income. A common idea is that excess profit is an unequivocal concept, being the difference between profit and costs, where … all types of costs are taken into account, included the opportunity cost, i.e. the profit the entrepreneur would obtain if …
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cost and excess profit (residual income), two all-pervasive notions of economics: They are defined by undoing a given …
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Investment decisions may be evaluated via several different metrics/criteria, which are functions of a vector of value drivers. The economic significance and the reliability of a metric depend on its compatibility with the Net Present Value (NPV). Traditionally, a metric is said to be...
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(ROI), obtained as the ratio of total operating profit (NOPAT) to total invested capital or, equivalently, as the ratio of …
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This paper analyzes the relations among different concepts such as earnings, profit, interest, rate, consumption … fundamental relation, shared by all five perspectives and whose ingredients are capital, profit, and cash flow. On the basis of …
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We show that the standard notion of residual income (RI) does not fulfill additive coherence. This gives rise to ambiguities and inconsistencies. The pitfall resides in the capital charge, which blends a non-market value with a market rate. We solve the problem by using a capital charge based on...
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This note deals with the simplified case of a principal (e.g., a firm's board of directors) which delegates execution of an economic activity to a business unit (or a subsidiary firm) managed by a manager. It is assumed that the manager has no control over the cash flows injected into the unit...
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The internal rate of return (IRR) is a widely used benchmark for assessing the reliability of the accounting rate of return (ROA) as a measure of economic profitability. We turn this reasoning process on its head by demonstrating that a suitable (weighted average) aggregation of ROAs better...
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This paper applies Magni's (2011) Aggregate Return On Investment (AROI)to investment performance measurement. We show that the ratio of undiscountednet cash flow to undiscounted invested capital is not a naive metric (itseemingly does not take the time value of money into account). It is a...
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