economic value added

noun [U] (abbreviation EVA) ACCOUNTING, FINANCE

Definition

› the amount by which the profit made by a company is bigger than the capital it has invested to make that profit. Economic value added is considered to be a way of measuring how successful a company is.

(Definition of economic value added noun from the Cambridge Business English Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

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