Session 10: Equity Valuation: Valuation Concepts Reading 32: A Note on Asset Valuation
LOS a: Explain how the classic works on asset valuation by Graham and Dodd and John Burr Williams are reflected in modern techniques of equity valuation.
Although we often take modern security analysis for granted, the basic concept that a firm’s value could be determined by analyzing its income statement and balance sheet was not seriously advanced until about seventy years ago, when this approach was published by:
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Benjamin Graham and David Dodd. | |
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The concept that a firm’s value could be discerned by analysis of its financial statements was first advanced in Security Analysis, published in 1934 by Benjamin Graham and David Dodd. |