"I've been in the fire service for 14 years, and I can only ever remember two times when I was on the scene for an mva (motor vehicle accident) with entrapment and fire," Leonard said.
They measured the market value added (MVA) by companies, the change in their outstanding debt and their stockmarket capitalisation.
So Stern Stewart has come up with a measure of overall corporate value, Market Value Added (MVA), which takes the total capital of a firm, including equity, loans and retained earnings, and deducts this from the value of its share capital and debt.
Stern Stewart says that there is a close correlation between EVA and MVA if managers improve EVA, the company's MVA is highly likely to improve too.
It is normally stated in megavolt-amperes (MVA) for large generators or kilovolt-amperes (kVA) for small generators.
The MVA penalties have been reduced recently but it still means we are locked into a poor situation.
We have been advised to withdraw money (a maximum of £7,000 pa) from the fund without incurring MVA penalties and reinvest - but this is a limp way of reducing the amount invested.
The MVA, however has been contextualised to reflect the legal, regulatory, policy and resource environment within which voluntary organisations operate".
Bavarian Nordic has issued a lawsuit in America, claiming Acambis used the Danish company's research information and technology to develop its own version of the vaccine, which is also known as MVA.
At South Bank, the pioneering MVA, launched in May 2002, aims to take up to 20 senior people in big charities every year - chief executives or the tier just below them.
