Business Analysis and Valuation: Using Financial Statements, Text Only - Softcover

Palepu, Krishna; Healy, Paul; Bernard, Victor L

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0324202520 ISBN 13: 9780324202526

Publisher: South-Western College Publishing, 2003

Synopsis

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. There is strong demand among business students for course materials that provide a framework for using financial statement data in a variety of business analysis and valuation contexts.

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About the Authors

Krishna G. Palepu joined the faculty of the Harvard Business School in 1983. He is the Ross Graham Walker Professor of Business Administration and Senior Advisor to the President of Harvard University. Professor Palepu's current research and teaching activities focus on strategy and governance. Professor Palepu has published numerous academic and practitioner-oriented articles and case studies on these issues. He has served on a number of public company and non-profit boards. He has also been on the Editorial Boards of leading academic journals, and has served as a consultant to a wide variety of businesses. Krishna Palepu is a researcher at the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) and a fellow of the International Academy of Management. Professor Palepu has a master's degree in physics from Andhra University, a post-graduate diploma in management from the Indian Institute of Management Calcutta, a doctorate in management from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and an honorary doctorate from the Helsinki School of Economics and Business Administration.

Paul Healy is the James R. Williston Professor at the Harvard Business School. His research covers a broad range of topics, including white collar crime, governance, business ethics, financial analysis and Wall Street research. He joined the HBS faculty in 1998, after 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 received accounting and finance degrees from Victoria University in New Zealand (1976 and 1977) and a PhD from the University of Rochester (1981). He has published widely in the leading academic and practitioner journals and has received numerous research rewards. He has taught MBA and executive courses on accounting, financial analysis, corporate boards and ethical leadership.

Victor L. Bernard, who passed away November 14, 1995, was Director of the Paton Accounting Center at the University of Michigan and Director of Research for the American Accounting Association.

Edition details

• Publisher: South-Western College Publishing
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0324202520
• ISBN 13: 9780324202526
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Edition number: 3
• Number of pages: 352