Synopsis
Learn how to conduct financial statement analysis most effectively as you perform analyses on actual, familiar companies. Wahlen/Baginski/Bradshaw's FINANCIAL REPORTING, FINANCIAL STATEMENT ANALYSIS, AND VALUATION, 9E provides a complete, balanced approach as the authors teach you how to integrate concepts from economics, finance, business strategy, accounting, and other business disciplines through the book's unique six-step process. Quick checks after each section help you ensure you have grasped key insights, while integrative and continuing cases highlight familiar companies, including Starbucks and PepsiCo.
About the Authors
James M. Wahlen is the James R. Hodge Chair of Excellence, professor of accounting, former chair of the accounting department, and the former chair of the MBA program at the Kelley School of Business at Indiana University. Dr. Wahlen received his PhD from the University of Michigan and has served on the faculties of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, the University of Washington and Pacific Lutheran University. He has also been a visiting professor at the University of Chicago, INSEAD and Sungkyunkwan University. Dr. Wahlen's teaching and research interests focus on financial accounting, financial statement analysis and the capital markets. He investigates financial statements analysis, testing the extent to which earnings and other financial statement information can predict future stock returns, earnings quality and management, earnings volatility as an indicator of risk, fair value accounting for financial instruments and accounting for loss reserve estimates by banks and insurers. His research has been published in a wide array of academic and practitioner journals in accounting and finance. He has public accounting experience in both Milwaukee and Seattle and is a member of the American Accounting Association. Dr. Wahlen has received numerous teaching awards during his career. In his free time, he enjoys spending time with his wife and daughters, spoiling his adorable granddaughters, playing outdoor sports (biking, hiking, skiing, golf), cooking (and, of course, eating), and listening to rock music (especially if it is loud and live).
Stephen P. Baginski is the Herbert E. Miller Chair in Financial Accounting at the University of Georgia’s J.M. Tull School of Accounting. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Illinois, and he has taught a variety of financial and managerial undergraduate, M.B.A. and executive education courses at the University of Georgia, Indiana University, Illinois State University, the University of Illinois, Northeastern University, Florida State University, Washington University in St. Louis, the University of St. Galen, the Swiss Banking Institute at the University of Zurich, Bocconi and INSEAD. Dr. Baginski has published articles in a variety of journals including The Accounting Review, Journal of Accounting Research, Contemporary Accounting Research, Review of Accounting Studies, The Journal of Risk and Insurance, Accounting Organizations and Society and The European Accounting Review. His research primarily deals with the causes and consequences of voluntary management disclosures of earnings forecasts, and he also investigates the usefulness of financial accounting information in security pricing and risk assessment. Dr. Baginski has served on several editorial boards and as an associate editor at Accounting Horizons and The Review of Quantitative Finance and Accounting. He has won numerous undergraduate and graduate teaching awards at the department, college and university levels during his career, including the Doctoral Student Inspiration Award from students at Indiana University. Dr. Baginski loves to watch college football, play golf, and run (very slowly) in his spare time.
Mark T. Bradshaw is professor of accounting, chair of the department and William S. McKiernan ’78 Family Faculty Fellow at the Carroll School of Management of Boston College. Dr. Bradshaw received a Ph.D. from the University of Michigan Business School and earned a B.B.A. summa cum laude with highest honors in accounting and a master’s degree in financial accounting from the University of Georgia. He previously taught at the University of Chicago, Harvard Business School and the University of Georgia. Dr. Bradshaw was a certified public accountant with Arthur Andersen & Co. in Atlanta. Today, he conducts research on capital markets, specializing in the examination of securities analysts and financial reporting issues. His research has been published in a variety of academic and practitioner journals, and he serves as an editor for The Accounting Review and as associate editor for Journal of Accounting and Economics, Journal of Accounting Research and Journal of Financial Reporting. Dr. Bradshaw is also on the editorial board of Review of Accounting Studies and the Journal of International Accounting Research. In addition, he is a reviewer for numerous other accounting and finance journals. Dr. Bradshaw has authored a book with Brian Bruce: ANALYSTS, LIES, AND STATISTICS―CUTTING THROUGH THE HYPE IN CORPORATE EARNINGS ANNOUNCEMENTS. Approximately 25 pounds ago, Dr. Bradshaw was an accomplished cyclist. Currently focused on additional leisurely pursuits, he nevertheless routinely passes younger and thinner cyclists.
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