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Praise for Focus on Value
"Focus on Value-with its theoretical and practical focus oneconomic profit fundamentals-is a modern day 'Graham and Dodd'primer on company and equity securities analysis."-Robert S.Hamada, Edward Eagle Brown Distinguished Service Professor ofFinance, The University of Chicago Graduate School ofBusiness
"Now that investors have abandoned momentum and are migrating backto fundamental investing, the market has become a more rationalplace. This book is a manual for serious investors who believe thatidentifying growing corporate earning power is the foundation ofvalue creation. Those following its precepts should minimize riskand be rewarded over the long term."-Byron R. Wien, Chief U.S.Investment Strategist, Morgan Stanley Dean Witter & Co.
"Economic profit is one of the most useful managerial tools as wellas a key to understanding the valuation of companies. Focus onValue is an outstanding piece of work. It captures the fullspectrum of the 'Metric Wars' without ever confusing the reader.The serious student of economic profit will be richly rewarded byreading this excellent book from cover to cover."-Mario A. Corti,Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Swissair Group, Zurich
"Messrs. Grant and Abate have provided an analytical tool forcorporate executives and investment managers which takes theconcepts of economic profit and value maximization to the nextlevel."-Suresh Thadhani, Chief Financial Officer and Executive VicePresident, Alcan, Inc.
"This book makes a real contribution to the most critical elementin helping companies implement efficient capital resourceallocation by highlighting the direct linkage between economicprofit and stock price."-Jack Warner, Chairman, Kerry Inc.
"The authors have put together an excellent piece of work andfinally provide readers seriously interested in applying economicprofit with a practical, market-oriented approach to integrate thebasic building blocks of economic profit with valuation and marketexpectations."-David King, Director of Research, North America,PricewaterhouseCoopers, Corporate Value Consulting
"In an era of following the herd toward indexation and pricemomentum, it is refreshing to see thinking out of the box andsubstantiating the tenets of an investment process that equatesvalue with real investment opportunity."-Eric Colson, Senior VicePresident, Callan Associates
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"Focus on Value-with its theoretical and practical focus oneconomic profit fundamentals-is a modern day 'Graham and Dodd'primer on company and equity securities analysis."-Robert S.Hamada, Edward Eagle Brown Distinguished Service Professor ofFinance, The University of Chicago Graduate School ofBusiness
"Now that investors have abandoned momentum and are migrating backto fundamental investing, the market has become a more rationalplace. This book is a manual for serious investors who believe thatidentifying growing corporate earning power is the foundation ofvalue creation. Those following its precepts should minimize riskand be rewarded over the long term."-Byron R. Wien, Chief U.S.Investment Strategist, Morgan Stanley Dean Witter & Co.
"Economic profit is one of the most useful managerial tools as wellas a key to understanding the valuation of companies. Focus onValue is an outstanding piece of work. It captures the fullspectrum of the 'Metric Wars' without ever confusing the reader.The serious student of economic profit will be richly rewarded byreading this excellent book from cover to cover."-Mario A. Corti,Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Swissair Group, Zurich
"Messrs. Grant and Abate have provided an analytical tool forcorporate executives and investment managers which takes theconcepts of economic profit and value maximization to the nextlevel."-Suresh Thadhani, Chief Financial Officer and Executive VicePresident, Alcan, Inc.
"This book makes a real contribution to the most critical elementin helping companies implement efficient capital resourceallocation by highlighting the direct linkage between economicprofit and stock price."-Jack Warner, Chairman, Kerry Inc.
"The authors have put together an excellent piece of work andfinally provide readers seriously interested in applying economicprofit with a practical, market-oriented approach to integrate thebasic building blocks of economic profit with valuation and marketexpectations."-David King, Director of Research, North America,PricewaterhouseCoopers, Corporate Value Consulting
"In an era of following the herd toward indexation and pricemomentum, it is refreshing to see thinking out of the box andsubstantiating the tenets of an investment process that equatesvalue with real investment opportunity."-Eric Colson, Senior VicePresident, Callan Associates
www.wileyfinance.com
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