Table 5 reports tests of incremental information content for users of EVA-like
performance measures. In one-tail t-tests of individual slope coefficients using
a 5% cutoff (t"1.65), 13 of 16 are significant for the CFO and Accrual
components while only 1 of 24 are individually significant for the remaining
EVA components. With the exception of the ‘Comp Year’ group, none of the
two-tail F-tests are significant for components unique to EVA. In the small
‘Comp Year’ sample (n"35), both CapChg and AcctAdj have significant
F-statistics suggesting they make an incremental contribution to explaining
contemporaneous security returns in years where firms have EVA-based