Clifford Ang

Clifford S. Ang, CFA is an Executive Vice President in the Oakland, CA and Chicago, IL offices of Compass Lexecon, where he specializes in the valuation of businesses & hard-to-value assets and analyzing complex financial statement issues. Cliff is the author of Applied Valuation: A Pragmatic Approach (DeGruyter, 2023) and Analyzing Financial Data and Implementing Financial Models Using R (Springer, 2nd ed., 2021). He also teaches equity and bond valuation courses in R at DataCamp, an online data science learning platform. In 2017, Cliff's articles on the size premium and debt betas/beta unlevering formulas were the two highest-rated articles on NACVA's QuickRead in 2017. He holds the Chartered Financial Analyst designation and an M.S. in Finance.