Our scoring system is the great leveler of modern management.

By adding a factor of days to cash to a factor for return on invested capital, we score management in a way that sets a common bar for all industries everywhere, regardless of sector or geography.

Since all Grade A companies share the same operating characteristics, few days of sales in receivables and inventories, for example, the lessons in one can be ported to another.

Also:

• You can rate mergers—No F + F will ever make an A, for example
• You can rate your competition—ignore the Fs, no matter what they do, and always fear the A in your market
• You can grade your customers too—F’s are high risk, sell on price; A’s are low risk, sell on value.
• You can use grades to determine if you or your competition can make innovation, or any top line initiative, accretive—F=no, A=yes.

You can try out your grade here. It’s free.

If our grade calculator throws you anything but an A, you are in trouble and need a lot of help, fast.

You do not want to the CEO who must explain shareholders and the press that NRV’s grading system was free, your team scored poorly, and you did nothing about it!