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Study Group: Valuation Specialists(?)

Council Members in this Study Group: 272

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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Raj Mehra, President & Founder, Chelsea Advisory ServicesRaj Mehra
President & Founder
Chelsea Advisory Services

Raj Mehra is the President of Chelsea Advisory Services, a financial risk and forensic accounting advisory firm in Washington DC. He has over 21 years of experience in areas such as banking, subprime mortgages, credit card, auto and student lending. Mr. Mehra is an expert in securitization and structured...

Dan Gode, Co-Founder, Almaris E-Learning SystemsDan Gode
Co-Founder
Almaris E-Learning Systems

Dan Gode is a Clinical Associate Professor of Accounting, Taxation, and Business Law at New York University Stern School of Business. He is also the Co-Founder of Almaris E-Learning Systems. Professor Gode teaches courses in corporate financial accounting and modeling and projecting financial statements....

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,...

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...

Grant Newton, CPA, Executive Director, ASSN OF INSOLVENCY/RESTRUCTRNGGrant Newton, CPA
Executive Director
ASSN OF INSOLVENCY/RESTRUCTRNG

Grant W. Newton is an Executive Director at Assn of Insolvency and Restructuring, a professional association, where he has worked since October 1990. Previously, Mr. Newton was a Professor Emeritus of Accounting at Pepperdine University in Malibu, California. His areas of expertise include financial...

Robert McCabe, Ph.D., CPA, CFE, Partner, McCabe & Associates, PhDsRobert McCabe, Ph.D., CPA, CFE
Partner
McCabe & Associates, PhDs

Robert K McCabe, PhD, is the Managing Partner of McCabe & Associates PhDs, a Colorado based forensic accounting firm that specializes in litigation support and financial statement analysis. Dr. McCabe specializes in SEC accounting and disclosure issues as well as SEC investigations and enforecement....

Elizabeth Demers, Visiting Professor of Accounting, INSEADElizabeth Demers
Visiting Professor of Accounting
INSEAD

Elizabeth Demers, PhD, is a Professor of Accounting at INSEAD. Dr. Demers’s research interests relate to economic issues concerning Internet and other New Economy firms. Her studies investigate Internet stock valuations, the marketing role of IPOs, IPO failure prediction, technology stock market bubbles,...

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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Moodys and Other Ratings Agencies "Computer Glitches" | 05-27-2008
Author: GLG Expert Contributor

The rating agencies -- including Moodys -- have long been under scrutiny relative to their "computer glitches."  We are learning that these are not so much "glitches" as they are conflicts of interest between the rating agencies and the clients they rate.  The exorbitant fees paid by the clients...

Could something be clearly worth zero? | 04-28-2008
Analysis of: SEC's Atkins Calls for Fair-Value Guidance | www.cfo.com
Author: Robert McCabe, Ph.D., CPA, CFE, Partner, McCabe & Associates, PhDs

How can an SEC Commissioner who is obviously not familiar with Fair Value estimates call for changing the existing guidance? The value of something is zero if that is what you can buy and sell it for.    

Why do bankers oppose the use of fair value? | 04-23-2008
Author: Robert McCabe, Ph.D., CPA, CFE, Partner, McCabe & Associates, PhDs

Claiming a "mixed attribute" accounting model provides a better picture of a company's business and earnings engine, bank trade groups blast full fair value. The bank trade groups argue that periodic updating to fair value would lessen the predictive value of future cash flows.  They also...

Selling Active Asset Management to the Skeptics | 03-12-2008
Analysis of: And God created alpha | www.economist.com
Author: GLG Expert Contributor

Provides a brief, non-technical critique of an academic paper developed to promote and legitimize long/short style asset management.  The article reviews attempts to replicate successful Hedge Fund strategies and resistance to the exorbitant fees typically charged, part payable regardless of actual...

Investment Scrutiny By the EU: A Delicate Dance | 03-06-2008
Analysis of: EU Seeks Code for Sovereign Wealth Funds | biz.yahoo.com
Author: GLG Expert Contributor

Sandwiched between US financial powerhouses and Middle Eastern SWF's, the EU is threatening additional financial regulation unless greater transparency is achieved.  Greater attention is being paid as the US subprime lending crisis effects many European investors(institutions and municipalities)...

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