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Forecasting Future Fraud: Q&A With Joanne Horton Of Warwick Business School

Global Finance

Now, we know from the academic literature that three years before the fraud, they tend to beat earnings benchmarks. Their initial response was to increase their human intervention in 2008: They changed their inventory valuation assumption, their revenue recognition assumptions, and a few other things. Horton: Heres one.

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To NPV or Not to NPV: That Is the Question

Fpanda Club

They tend to avoid losses and prefer to keep the things as they are rather than invest in risky innovation. Being a promising alternative to NPV, real options valuation has not been widely adopted by the companies neither in its initial version, nor in modified ones. which will be part of the allowable cost.

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Inventory Management in Manufacturing

VCFO

That’s because inventory is a key driver of several profit & loss (P&L) statement components, from revenue all the way down to net profit. A benchmark exercise can also provide insight here. Conversely, overstating inventory valuation will lead an organization to think it has too much inventory on hand.

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Transcript: Christine Phillpotts, Ariel Investments

Barry Ritholtz

But when you look at emerging markets and when you look at value, the opportunity for alpha is much, much greater than it is in traditional large cap growth stocks in the US And a lot of managers in that space actually beat their benchmark. So value, growth and core has outperformed the benchmark or passive strategies over the last decade.

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In Search of Safe Havens: The Trust Deficit and Risk-free Investments!

Musings on Markets

After the rating downgrade, my mailbox was inundated with questions of what this action meant for investing, in general, and for corporate finance and valuation practice, in particular, and this post is my attempt to answer them all with one post. But what if government securities are viewed as risky?

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Transcript: Mike Green, Simplify Asset Management

Barry Ritholtz

And the advice that he gave to David Einhorn about it that helped lead Einhorn to start really kicking the benchmark’s butt again for the past couple of years. We built a company that was focused on valuation, initially, actually targeting corporate strategic planning departments. It would go up, it should go up.

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Transcript: Graeme Forster, Orbis Investments

Barry Ritholtz

And they also have a unique approach to feeds when they’re generating alpha, when they’re outperforming their benchmark, they take a performance fee. And they go on longer and longer and obviously more profitable for the states that run the lottery. Then the volatility and, and the valuation makes an enormous difference.