Driving Your Companya s Value: Strategic Benchmarking for Value is a step--by--step book presenting a valuation--oriented methodology that helps companies maximize shareholder value. It offers clear, concise, and concrete methods for management to create and preserve value, complete with case study applications. In an easy--to--read format, it brings together the aspects of the Financial Accounting Standards Boardsa new performance measurements, the balanced scorecard, and the new guidelines on fraud detection and Extensible Business Reporting Language (XBRL). aeo Identifies the critical decisions that most effectuate growth and value. aeo Covers the easy and reliable ways to monitor value of an entity. aeo Demonstrates how management can apportion and allocate resources to achieve the highest value.