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Business Analysis and Valuation: Using Financial Statements, Text and Cases - Hardcover

Palepu, Krishna G.; Healy, Paul M.

 
9780324302868: Business Analysis and Valuation: Using Financial Statements, Text and Cases

Synopsis

This text has a valuation emphasis and focuses on a four-part framework: (1) business strategy analysis for developing an understanding of a firm's competitive strategy; (2) accounting analysis for representing the firm's business economics and strategy in its financial statements, and for developing adjusted accounting measures of performance; (3) financial analysis for ratio analysis and cash flow measures of operating; and (4) prospective analysis. The text shows how this business analysis and valuation framework can be applied to a variety of decision contexts: securities analysis, credit analysis, corporate financing policies analysis, mergers and acquisitions analysis, and governance and communication analysis. It also offers one Harvard case per chapter as well as an entirely separate section for additional cases.

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Synopsis

This MBA textbook introduces a framework for analyzing a company's business strategy, accounting rules, financial ratio and cash flow measures, and future performance potential, then shows how to apply the framework to a variety of decision contexts, all based on close analysis of financial statements. The text is supplemented with detailed case st

About the Author

Erik Peek is Associate Professor of Financial Accounting at
Maastricht University, The Netherlands. He is a CFA charterholder and holds
a PhD from the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam.

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