Question 1: Define market value added. Does market value added provide the same performance insights to the corporate executive as economic profit (i.e. EVA)?
Question 2: What are the advantages/disadvantages of tailored value drives versus the balance scorecard?
Question 3: Define synergy. Describe how synergies might enhance a corporation's value.
Question 4: What might be an example of an incentive to management to focus on maximizing shareholder value?
Question 5: Looking at the recent history of management fraud, what is the potential danger in incentives for maximizing shareholder value?
https://www.sec.gov/news/speech/spch586.htm
Question 6: Having established a culture to maximize shareholder value (for example, just-in-time inventory), why would there be a need to implement a corporate-wide verification process?
Question 7: Why should management be cautious in forecasting earnings?
Question 8: What is the inherent danger to stock prices in the requirement that management forecast future sales and earnings?
https://money.cnn.com/2003/10/23/markets/earnings/
Question 9. What is the common thread running through mergers and acquisitions and joint ventures in seeking to maximize shareholder value?