Accounting for Value - (Columbia Business School Publishing) by Stephen Penman (Hardcover)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><i>Accounting for Value</i> teaches investors and analysts how to handle accounting in evaluating equity investments. The book's novel approach shows that valuation and accounting are much the same: valuation is actually a matter of accounting for value. <p/>Laying aside many of the tools of modern finance--the cost-of-capital, the CAPM, and discounted cash flow analysis--Stephen Penman returns to the common-sense principles that have long guided fundamental investing: price is what you pay but value is what you get; the risk in investing is the risk of paying too much; anchor on what you know rather than speculation; and beware of paying too much for speculative growth. Penman puts these ideas in touch with the quantification supplied by accounting, producing practical tools for the intelligent investor. <p/>Accounting for value provides protection from paying too much for a stock and clues the investor in to the likely return from buying growth. Strikingly, the analysis finesses the need to calculate a "cost-of-capital," which often frustrates the application of modern valuation techniques. Accounting for value recasts "value" versus "growth" investing and explains such curiosities as why earnings-to-price and book-to-price ratios predict stock returns. By the end of the book, Penman has the intelligent investor thinking like an intelligent accountant, better equipped to handle the bubbles and crashes of our time. For accounting regulators, Penman also prescribes a formula for intelligent accounting reform, engaging with such controversial issues as fair value accounting.<p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>For a practical book that will help you understand the use of accounting in understanding stock valuation, <i>Accounting for Value</i> is the resource you are looking for you.--Stocker Blog<br><br>I highly recommend the essential and fundamentals oriented book <i>Accounting for Value</i> by Stephen Penman, to anyone who is serious about investing in sound, fundamental stocks. This book will benefit the beginning or experienced investor, accountants, and anyone interested in the coupling of accounting with equity valuation.--Blog Business World<br><br>Penman's book...contains gems on every page - to the point that no one who deals with the market in any capacity should pass by this text until they have committed to memory as many points therein as their limited, mark one, human brains, can hold.--Anthony Harrington "QFinance Blog "<br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br>Stephen Penman is George O. May Professor of Accounting and Morgan Stanley Research Scholar at the Columbia Business School. He is the author of <i>Financial Statement Analysis and Security Valuation</i>, for which he received a Wildman Medal Award, and an editor of the <i>Review of Accounting Studies</i>.
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