In the wake of recent financial scandals, the gap between financial reporting and reality has become a critical issue for investors. The presentations in this proceedings address such key topics as how to identify companies that are playing fast and loose with the rules before financial disaster occurs; understanding what accounting rules actually say about pensions, intangible assets, employee stock options, and derivatives; and how accounting rules are likely to change in the future.

Closing the Gap between Financial Reporting and Reality

Martin S. Fridson

Patricia A. McConnell

Thomas R. Robinson

Bruce A. Gulliver

David A. Zion

Jane B. Adams

Donald J. Smith

Walter V. Haslett

David M. Blitzer

Charles L. Hill

AIMR (CFA Institute)

Drawing on the wisdom of both academia and the practitioner world, this proceedings offers insights on a wide range of practical challenges faced by analysts and portfolio managers. Presentations address such key issues as why a company's price moves so violently over short periods of time in the absence of a correspondingly large change in the company's underlying business performance, the dichotomy between the search for the absolute value of a firm and the dependence on relative valuation approaches, and the challenges inherent in deriving accurate valuations from accounting information.

Equity Valuation in a Global Context

Richard Barker

Stefano F. Cavaglia

Sophie Blanpain

Gerco Goote

Pieter Dekker

Barney H. Wilson

Nicola Ralston

Charles M.C. Lee

Vadim, Moroz

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