Business Analysis and Valuation Using Financial Statements by Krishna G Palepu

Business Analysis and Valuation Using Financial Statements by Krishna G Palepu

Financial statements are the basis for a wide range of business analysis. Managers, securities analysts, bankers and consultants all use them to make business decisions. This volume provides a framework for using financial statement data in a variety of business analysis and valuation contexts. It also details the challenges in revenue recognition such as how to account for payment in advance, multi-period contracts, and bundled services or products is included. It also discusses the credit-worthiness of customers and dissatisfaction about service performance is also included.

Healy, Paul M.: - Paul M. Healy is James R. Williston Professor of Business Administration, and Unit Head, Accounting and Management, at Harvard Business School, Harvard University. Professor Healy joined Harvard Business School as a Professor of Business Administration in 1997. Professor Healy received his B.C.A. Honors (1st Class) in Accounting and Finance from Victoria University, New Zealand in 1977, his M.S. in Economics from the University of Rochester in 1981, his Ph.D. in Business from the University of Rochester in 1983, and is a New Zealand CPA. In New Zealand, Professor Healy worked for Arthur Young and ICI. Prior to joining Harvard, Professor Healy spent fourteen years on the faculty at the M.I.T. Sloan School of Management, where he received awards for teaching excellence in 1991, 1992, and 1997. He is the co-author of one of the leading financial analysis textbooks, Business Analysis & Valuation. In 1993-94 he served as Deputy Dean at the Sloan School, and in 1994-95 he visited London Business School and Harvard Business School. Professor Healy's research includes studies of the role and performance of financial analysts, how firms' disclosure strategies affect their costs of capital, the performance of merging firms after mergers, and managers' financial reporting decisions. His work has been published in The Accounting Review, Journal of Accounting and Economics, Journal of Accounting Research, and Journal of Financial Economics. In 1990, his article The Effect of Bonus Schemes on Accounting Decisions, published in Journal of Accounting and Economics, was awarded the AICPA/AAA Notable Contribution Award. His text Business Analysis & Valuation was awarded the AICPA/AAA's Wildman Medal for contributions to the practice in 1997 and the AICPA/AAA Notable Contribution Award in 1998.

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ISBN 13	9780324118940
ISBN 10	0324118945
Title	Business Analysis and Valuation Using Financial Statements
Author	Krishna G Palepu
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Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Cengage Learning, Inc
Year published	2003-07-31
Number of pages	1104
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