Begin, I told him, with a simple model in which future cash flows are discounted to a present value.

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While most boards recognize this duty to ensure that management does all it can to maximize this future value as well as stave off present dangers, in this article, I want to offer a simple but powerful information system that can help boards better fulfill this duty.

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