Studies in Cash Flow Accounting and Analysis (RLE Accounting) Aspects of the Interface Between Managerial Planning, Reporting and Control and External Performance Measurement

The fourteen papers in this volume, both unpublished and originally published between 1981 and 1990 offer a comprehensive selection of G. H. Lawson’s work and discuss the following: assessing economic performance ownership value creation pricing of non-competitive government contracts valuation of a business measurement of corporate performance according to cash flow.

Introduction. 1. Assessing Economic Performance and Corporate Financial Policies on a Cash Flow-Market Value Basis 2. Ownership Value-Creation and the Evaluation of Alternative Plans (with H. Chong) 3. Contract Costing and the Negotiation of Contract Prices (with J. van den Berge) 4. The Pricing of Non-Competitive Government Contracts 5. Specifying a Multiperiod Computer-based Financial Model 6. Some Managerial Implications of Working Capital Analysis 7. Zones Ltd 8. The Valuation of a Business as a Going Concern 9. Was Woolworth Ailing? 10. Why the Current UDS Takeover Bids Became Inevitable 11. The Measurement of Corporate Performance on a Cash Flow Basis: A Reply to Mr Egginton 12. Call for SSAP 10 Reform 13. Equity Values and Inflation: Dividends and Debt Financing (with A. W. Stark) 14. Bankruptcy Prediction – An Investigation of Cash Flow Based Models with A Aziz and D. C. Emanual

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