Formerly Graduate School of Industrial Administration (GSIA)
William Larimer Mellon, Founder
Schenley Park
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15213-3890
United States of America

Pierre Jinghong Liang
Associate Professor of Accounting

Evaluation of Financial Information

45-802 Spring 2003 Sections A & E
Graduate School of Industrial Administration
Carnegie Mellon University

 
Instructor: Pierre Jinghong Liang
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Required Texbook: Penman, Stephen, Financial Statement Analysis and Security Valuation first edition, New York, NY: McGraw-Hill/Irwin, 2001
 
Course Objectives:
This course is designed to improve your ability to analyze financial reports and value companies. After completing this course, you will gain two valuable tools in your skill set: (1) financial statement analysis; and (2) equity valuation principles. The focus of financial statement analysis is a rigorous reformulation of published GAAP statements. The reformulation is needed to highlight the shareholder-value generation and distribution process of the firms. The focus of the equity valuation is theory-consistent valuation benchmarks. These benchmarks provide important guidance to further, more detailed firm valuation. Time permitting, we may cover special topics like accounting quality analysis, etc.
   
   
   
   

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