Performance-Based Reporting 
Subtitle: New Management Tools for Unpredictable Times
Publisher: Wiley; J. Wiley
Published: September 21, 2005
Language: eng
Number of pages: 240
ISBN-13: 9780471735434
First sentence: The fifteenth century was a remarkable period in history: Leonardo da Vinci, the universal genius whose name has been revived beyond belief in the last few years, created great art and made impressive designs and inventions.
Description: "Performance-Based Reporting shows businesses how traditional accounting fails to provide meaningful measures for performance. It definitively proves the need for new tools for realistic business planning and management in an unpredictable world. These tools already exist, and this helpful guide walks readers through putting them into use immediately with The Baseline Approach to management, assessment, and reporting, composed of eighty-percent accounting-free methods." "The Baseline Approach gives companies the ultimate competitive advantage - the maximum freedom to act - by addressing the fundamental forces and factors that play decisive roles in creating strengths and weaknesses in any company. Any limitations to the freedom to act, inside the company structure or the company's environment, limit its chances of success, in terms of survival, growth, and earnings." "Tying in EVA, Balanced Scorecard, and other methodologies to business reporting, Performance-Based Reporting helps controllers, finance managers, CFOs, compliance officers, and project managers in charge of Sarbanes-Oxley compliance implement effective risk management and develop an improved ability to predict the direction their business should take in the future."--BOOK JACKET.