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Study Group: Quantitative Analysis Specialists(?)

Council Members in this Study Group: 229

This study group may include chief financial officers, chartered public accountants, controllers, and consultants knowledgeable on topics such as finance, taxation, auditing, forensic accounting and fraud, financial accounting and reporting, bankruptcy, pension benefits, cash flow, company valuation, working capital, hedge accounting, and mergers and acquisition, among others.

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Eli Bartov, CPA, Professor, New York University (inc)Eli Bartov, CPA
Professor
New York University (inc)

Dr. Bartov, PhD, CPA, is a Research Professor of Accounting at the Stern School of Business, New York University. He has authored numerous scholarly articles on issues of accounting earnings manipulations, earnings quality, equity valuation, executive stock options, insider trading, market efficiency,...

Michael Schwindle
Vice President / CFO
Musician's Friend, Inc.

Michael Schwindle is the Chief Financial Officer at Musician's Friend, Inc., an online retailer. Prior to that, Mr. Schwindle was a former subsidiary CFO for The Home Depot, a GA-based home-improvement retailer. He has over 18 years of experience as accounting and finance executive, predominately in...

Hamilton Lin
President
Wall St. Training

Hamilton Lin, CFA, is the President of Wall St. Training, a corporate training firm that teaches the fundamentals of financial analysis, modeling and valuation. He has a broad background in investment banking and mergers & acquisitions in diverse industries ranging from oil & gas to insurance to asset...

Oscar Carbajal
Latin American Consultant
Oscar Carbajal

Oscar Carbajal is an independent energy consultant with a consulting practice in London, UK. An attorney with a doctorate in international economic relations, Mr. Carbajal has been providing consulting services to investment banks and hedge funds for many years. His areas of expertise cover the oil...

Russell Lundholm, PhD, Professor, UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN (INC) - CCRussell Lundholm, PhD
Professor
UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN (INC) - CC

Russell Lundholm is the Andersen Professor of Accounting and former department chair at the Ross School of Business at the University of Michigan. He has taught at the University of Michigan since 1993 and at Stanford University from 1987 to 1993. Dr. Lundholm's expertise lies at the intersection of...

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Brazil's biofuels: making an entrance | 08-21-2007
Author: Oscar Carbajal, Latin American Consultant, Oscar Carbajal

The recent Business Plan announced by Petrobras for 2008-2012 makes us speculate on the huge and diverse business opportunities in the energy sector in Brazil on one hand and wonder how the country intends to attract more foreign investment. We take a look at the biofuels subsector and Petrobras's role...

Chavez bows out of 8,000km Gasoducto del Sur (Southern Gas pipeline) | 07-31-2007
Author: Oscar Carbajal, Latin American Consultant, Oscar Carbajal

BN Americas reports today that Venezuela’s President Hugo Chavez has frozen plans to build the Gasoducto del Sur (an 8,000km - $20b gas pipeline that would bring natural gas from Venezuela to Argentina through Brazil and Uruguay) but that he is still negotiating a bilateral agreement to sell natural...

Energy crisis in Argentina: can anyone predict the future ahead? Part II | 07-31-2007
Author: Oscar Carbajal, Latin American Consultant, Oscar Carbajal

Following a previous article we explain the reasons why in our opinion we believe tariffs in the energy sector will increase. Whilst most analysts think the crisis obeys mainly to a regulatory snag we do not believe the problem to be as simple as that. Introducing new regulations or even reformulating...

Energy crisis in Argentina: can anyone predict the future ahead? | 07-30-2007
Author: Oscar Carbajal, Latin American Consultant, Oscar Carbajal

Argentina's current first lady is likely to win the presidential general elections to be held in October in her country. Will her political platform be any different from her husband's? Will she be able to bring the energy crisis to an end? In this article we look at the political implication faced...

Is Exxon Mobil's marketshare declining? | 07-30-2007
Analysis of: Exxon Mobil Profit Falls to $10.26 Billion | www.nytimes.com
Author: Oscar Carbajal, Latin American Consultant, Oscar Carbajal

However uninspiring Exxon Mobil’s recent market performance may have been compared to the previous one, one should not lose sight that this has been the fourth-largest quarterly profit ever recorded by a publicly traded U.S. company.

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