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Musings on Markets: META Lesson 2: Accounting Inconsistencies and Consequences

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That skewing can affect valuation and pricing judgments about these firms, and correcting accounting inconsistencies is a key step towards leveling the playing field. I believe it is, since failure to do so can have both valuation and pricing consequences.

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META Lesson 2: Accounting Inconsistencies and Consequences

Musings on Markets

That skewing can affect valuation and pricing judgments about these firms, and correcting accounting inconsistencies is a key step towards leveling the playing field. Accounting 101 I am not an accountant, and have no desire to be one, but I have used their output (accounting statements) as raw material in valuation and corporate finance.

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Musings on Markets: META Lesson 1: Corporate Governance

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I have written about the firm many times, over that period, starting with a valuation that I did of the company in 2012, just ahead of it going public. billion, but it generated an operating margin of 47.3%, with its online advertising model.

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Data Update 7 for 2025: The End Game in Business!

Musings on Markets

I am in the third week of the corporate finance class that I teach at NYU Stern, and my students have been lulled into a false sense of complacency about what's coming, since I have not used a single metric or number in my class yet.

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META Lesson 1: Corporate Governance

Musings on Markets

I have written about the firm many times, over that period, starting with a valuation that I did of the company in 2012, just ahead of it going public. billion, but it generated an operating margin of 47.3%, with its online advertising model.

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Transcript: Heather Brilliant, Diamond Hill

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Heather Brilliant : I worked at Bank of America and, and they had a wonderful corporate finance training program. Barry Ritholtz: The old, the old joke, half of our advertising dollars are wasted. But there’s always gotta be some element of the valuation really being compelling.

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10 Friday AM Reads

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From film to fashion and architecture to advertising, creative fields have become dominated and defined by convention and cliché. Bloomberg ) • Want an A in His Class? ( BBC ) Be sure to check out our Masters in Business next week with Aswath Damodaran, Professor of Finance at New York University’s Stern School of Business.

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