Skip to main content

Economic Value Added (EVA)

Economic Value Added (EVA) is another sophisticated modification of cash flow that looks at the cost of capital and the incremental return above that cost as a way of separating businesses that truly generate cash from ones that just eat it up.

EVA is the financial performance measure that captures the true economic profit of an enterprise. It is also directly linked to the creation of shareholders wealth over time. Economic profit is NOPAT minus a capital charge, which represents a sort of rental fee charged to the company for its use of capital. In other words, economic profit is the profits (or returns) our company must generate in order to satisfy the lenders and shareholders who have "rented" capital to the company. Keep in mind that economic profit is a period metric, like earnings or cash flow.

EVA = Net Operating Profit After Tax – (Capital Employed x Cost of Capital)

Net Operating Profit After Tax (NOPAT) is calculated as follows:
Net profit available to Equity Shareholders
Add: Interest Expense (1 - Tax rate)
Add: Preferred Dividends
Add: Minority Interest
Add: Amortisation of Goodwill
Add: Non recurring (unusual) losses or expenses
Less: Non recurring (unusual) gains

Capital Employed is calculated as follows:
Book Value of Equity
Add: Debt
Add: Preferred Stock
Add: Minority Interest
Add: Equity Equivalents

Getting to Invested Capital or Capital Employed, we use the following three-step method:
1. Get invested book capital from the balance sheet. (Total assets – Current Liabilities)
2. Make adjustments that convert accounting accruals to cash. (Eg. Add Provision for Bad Debts)
3. Make adjustments that recognize off-balance-sheet sources of funds. (Eg. Add PV of Operating leases and Capitalised expenses)

Getting to the Cost of Capital involves the following steps.
Calculate Cost of Equity using CAPM viz. Re = Rf + (Rm - Rf) x Beta
Calculate After Tax Cost of Debt viz. Kd = Cost of Debt x (1-tax Rate)
Calculate Weighted Average Cost of Capital based on the weights of Debt and Equity.
WACC = [ E / ( E + D ) x R e ] + [ D / ( E + D ) x K d ( 1 - t ) ]


A simplistic example of calculation of EVA would be:

EBIT = Rs 5 million
Tax rate = 40%
WACC = 12%
Debt = 10 million
Equity = 10 million

EVA = [EBIT x (1 - Tax Rate)] - [WACC x Capital Employed]
EVA = [5 x ( 1 - 0.40)] - [0.12 x (10 + 10)]
EVA = 3.0 - 2.4
EVA = 0.6 million


Comments

Popular posts from this blog

Angel Tax on start-ups may be amended soon

The Angel Tax imposed on start-ups has been the talk of the town lately. Various start-up founders have received demand notices from the tax authorities which plans to tax the capital receipts in the form of Income when the tax authorities believe that the amount is in excess of the value of the company. What is Angel Tax? In 2012, the then Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee introduced a tax on unlisted companies which aimed at raising funds from investors (the 'angel investors") who invested in these companies with the objective of gaining significant returns. Since many companies used this route to launder money and raise funds at excessive valuations, the tax was imposed to arrest such money laundering. Angel Tax is a tax payable by the unlisted companies who raise funds via issue of shares where the share price is believed to be in excess of the fair market value of the shares sold. What is a Startup? An entity shall be considered as a Startup: (i). Upto a period o...

All you wanted to know about One Person Company (OPC) under Companies Act 2013

The Companies Act 2013 has promoted structured business organisation even for individuals. Why run an uncontrolled, unregulated sole proprietorship business when you can be guided and recognised by an Act? Even if you are an individual, you can now create and run a company under Companies Act 2013 - a ONE PERSON COMPANY.  Section 2(62) defines One Person Company as a company which has only one person as a member. Here are some things that you should know about One Person Company: One Person Company (OPC) is a private company   The said member (shareholder) should be a natural person. The words “One Person Company” shall be mentioned in brackets below the name of the company, wherever it is printed, affixed or engraved [Section 12(3) second proviso]. The memorandum of OPC shall indicate the name of the person who shall become the member of the company in the event of the death of the subscriber. The name of such person can also be changed by the member [Sectio...

CA Info - industrial training

Hi Friends, Here is the list of approved insitutions eligible for imparting Industrial training Approved Organisations - Eastern Region SIEMENS LIMITED 43 SHANTI PALLY E.M.BY PASS CALCUTTA 700042 CITI BANK N.A. TATA CENTRE 41,CHOWRINGHEE ROAD CALCUTTA 700071 RECKITT & COLMAN OF INDIA LTD 41,CHOWRINGHEE ROAD CALCUTTA 700071 BRITANIA INDUSTRIES LTD . 14, TARATALA ROAD CALCUTTA 700088 ICI INDIA LTD 34, CHOWRINGHEE ROAD CALCUTTA 700071 GRASIM INDUSTRIES LTD. INDUSTRY HOUSE 14TH FLOOR, 10, CAMAC STREET KOLKATA 700017 AMERICAN EXPRESS BANK 21, OLD COURT HOUSE STREET CALCUTTA 700001 BALMER LAWRIE CO. LTD 21, NETAJI SUBHAS ROAD CALCUTTA 700001 INDIAN OIL CORPORATION LIMITED 2,GARIAHAT ROAD(S) DHAKURIA CALCUTTA 700068 SRF LIMITED EXPRESS BUILDING 1ST FLOOR BAHADUR SHAH ZAFAR MARG NEW DELHI 110002 INDIAN RAYON AND INDUSTRIES LTD RISHRA HOOGHLY 712249 PEPSI-COLA INDIA MARKETING COMPANY SREE MANJURI BLDG. SUITE NO.6 , 1ST FLOOR 8/1, MIDDLETON ROW CALCUTT...