book value
description: in accounting, the value of an asset according to its balance sheet account balance
291 results
Gambling Man
by Lionel Barber · 3 Oct 2024 · 424pp · 123,730 words
that Berkshire had a built-in ‘discount control mechanism’. If the company’s shares fell to a premium of less than 20 per cent to book value, Berkshire would consider buy-backs to boost the share price. Elliott went on to say that Berkshire had a top-class board which was gender
The Dream of Europe: Travels in the Twenty-First Century
by Geert Mak · 27 Oct 2021 · 722pp · 223,701 words
was ten times as great. ‘Zombie banks’ emerged, overburdened with loans that could never be repaid. They might have a promising building project on their books valued at millions of euros, for example. Two journalist friends of mine went to film the sober reality, and I can still see the images they
Take the Money and Run: Sovereign Wealth Funds and the Demise of American Prosperity
by Eric C. Anderson · 15 Jan 2009 · 264pp · 115,489 words
with the “big four” banks.57 Financial analysts believe that the asset management firms initially “purchased” between $170 and $200 billion in nonperforming loans at book value.58 This move did not eliminate the debt, but instead served to remove the offending data from the beneficiary banks’ balance sheets. According to a
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, these firms purchased another $34 billion in nonperforming loans from the Bank of China and the Construction Bank of China, this time at 50% of book value.64 What did all this do for the nonperforming loan problem? By 2006, the “big four” were reportedly confronted with a nonperforming loan ratio of
A Sea in Flames: The Deepwater Horizon Oil Blowout
by Carl Safina · 18 Apr 2011
-sets-deadline-for-bp-as-mistrust-grows/308972. 9 BP shares hemorrhage an incredible 16 percent F. Ahrens, “BP Stock Crashes; Oil Giant Trading Below Book Value,” Washington Post, June 9, 2010; http://voices.washingtonpost.com/economy-watch/2010/06/bp_shares_crash_oil_giant_trad.html. 10 Estimate of the leak
Handbook of Modeling High-Frequency Data in Finance
by Frederi G. Viens, Maria C. Mariani and Ionut Florescu · 20 Dec 2011 · 443pp · 51,804 words
Tobin’s Q below one shows that the market expects high agency costs. We used as a proxy for Tobin’s Q the ratio of book value of debt plus market value of common stocks, and preferred stocks to total assets.5 We also included insider ownership (T_Insider) and variables related
Accelerando
by Stross, Charles · 22 Jan 2005 · 489pp · 148,885 words
: "I trust you'll drop your denial of service attack before I set the Italian parliament on you? By the way, you'll find the book value of the intellectual property assets I deeded to Pamela – by the value these gentlemen place on them – is somewhere in excess of a billion dollars
Unconventional Success: A Fundamental Approach to Personal Investment
by David F. Swensen · 8 Aug 2005 · 490pp · 117,629 words
cousins, but the benchmarks respond to changes in security-specific valuation characteristics. Russell uses price-to-book-value ratios and earnings-growth-rate estimates to rank companies along a growth-to-value continuum. As stock prices, book values, and earnings expectations change from year to year, so do the positions of companies in Russell
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price per share to its earnings per share. A price-book ratio measures valuation by comparing a company’s stock price per share to its book value (assets minus liabilities) per share. Duration measures the price sensitivity of a bond to interest rates. Duration provides a better measure of a bond’s
Priceless: The Myth of Fair Value (And How to Take Advantage of It)
by William Poundstone · 1 Jan 2010 · 519pp · 104,396 words
price, you will focus on prices or other dollar amounts in the problem. In deciding how much to offer for a used car, Kelley Blue Book value and prices on Craigslist command attention. Everything else that ought to matter (condition, repair history, color, options, whether you want the options) gets short shrift
Money Mavericks: Confessions of a Hedge Fund Manager
by Lars Kroijer · 26 Jul 2010 · 244pp · 79,044 words
. Although it was by no means simple, we could try to estimate the value of these businesses using conventional valuation metrics like price/earnings, price/book value, etc. Once we had separated the actual business units from the general stock holdings, we could estimate how the overall value compared to the current
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our thinking, even if he could not encourage us to short the Generali stock. He offered a few technical improvements to our analysis, changing the book value of some holdings (relevant for capital gains taxation if Mediobanca was to sell a stake and incur taxes) and making a couple of comments about
Marxian Economic Theory
by Meghnad Desai · 20 May 2013
capital was measured as "the values of plant and equipment taken at their reproduction costs at'current prices net of depreciation." 3 These differ from book values since these are often in historical value. Using these figures, there is a decline in the rate of profit for 1880-1919 but no trend
Schaum's Outline of Bookkeeping and Accounting, Fourth Edition (Schaum's Outlines)
by Joel Lerner and Rajul Gokarn · 13 Sep 2009
Street Fighters: The Last 72 Hours of Bear Stearns, the Toughest Firm on Wall Street
by Kate Kelly · 14 Apr 2009 · 258pp · 71,880 words
EuroTragedy: A Drama in Nine Acts
by Ashoka Mody · 7 May 2018
Competition Demystified
by Bruce C. Greenwald · 31 Aug 2016 · 482pp · 125,973 words
The Revolution That Wasn't: GameStop, Reddit, and the Fleecing of Small Investors
by Spencer Jakab · 1 Feb 2022 · 420pp · 94,064 words
The Big Secret for the Small Investor: A New Route to Long-Term Investment Success
by Joel Greenblatt · 11 Apr 2011 · 89pp · 29,198 words
Sickening: How Big Pharma Broke American Health Care and How We Can Repair It
by John Abramson · 15 Dec 2022 · 362pp · 97,473 words
The Best Way to Rob a Bank Is to Own One: How Corporate Executives and Politicians Looted the S&L Industry
by William K. Black · 31 Mar 2005 · 432pp · 127,985 words
The Long Good Buy: Analysing Cycles in Markets
by Peter Oppenheimer · 3 May 2020 · 333pp · 76,990 words
The Dhandho Investor: The Low-Risk Value Method to High Returns
by Mohnish Pabrai · 17 May 2009 · 172pp · 49,890 words
Investment: A History
by Norton Reamer and Jesse Downing · 19 Feb 2016
13 Bankers: The Wall Street Takeover and the Next Financial Meltdown
by Simon Johnson and James Kwak · 29 Mar 2010 · 430pp · 109,064 words
Economists and the Powerful
by Norbert Haring, Norbert H. Ring and Niall Douglas · 30 Sep 2012 · 261pp · 103,244 words
Investment Banking: Valuation, Leveraged Buyouts, and Mergers and Acquisitions
by Joshua Rosenbaum, Joshua Pearl and Joseph R. Perella · 18 May 2009 · 444pp · 86,565 words
Mastering Private Equity
by Zeisberger, Claudia,Prahl, Michael,White, Bowen, Michael Prahl and Bowen White · 15 Jun 2017
My Life as a Quant: Reflections on Physics and Finance
by Emanuel Derman · 1 Jan 2004 · 313pp · 101,403 words
Bulletproof Problem Solving
by Charles Conn and Robert McLean · 6 Mar 2019
Buy Then Build: How Acquisition Entrepreneurs Outsmart the Startup Game
by Walker Deibel · 19 Oct 2018
Fred Schwed's Where Are the Customers' Yachts?: A Modern-Day Interpretation of an Investment Classic
by Leo Gough · 22 Aug 2010 · 117pp · 31,221 words
The Alpha Masters: Unlocking the Genius of the World's Top Hedge Funds
by Maneet Ahuja, Myron Scholes and Mohamed El-Erian · 29 May 2012 · 302pp · 86,614 words
The New Science of Asset Allocation: Risk Management in a Multi-Asset World
by Thomas Schneeweis, Garry B. Crowder and Hossein Kazemi · 8 Mar 2010 · 317pp · 106,130 words
Unfinished Business
by Tamim Bayoumi · 405pp · 109,114 words
Beyond the Random Walk: A Guide to Stock Market Anomalies and Low Risk Investing
by Vijay Singal · 15 Jun 2004 · 369pp · 128,349 words
A Demon of Our Own Design: Markets, Hedge Funds, and the Perils of Financial Innovation
by Richard Bookstaber · 5 Apr 2007 · 289pp · 113,211 words
Boom and Bust: A Global History of Financial Bubbles
by William Quinn and John D. Turner · 5 Aug 2020 · 297pp · 108,353 words
Buffett
by Roger Lowenstein · 24 Jul 2013 · 612pp · 179,328 words
Toyota Production System: Beyond Large-Scale Production
by Taiichi Ohno and Norman Bodek · 1 Jan 1978 · 167pp · 44,104 words
Shortchanged: Life and Debt in the Fringe Economy
by Howard Karger · 9 Sep 2005 · 299pp · 83,854 words
Reinventing Capitalism in the Age of Big Data
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The World for Sale: Money, Power and the Traders Who Barter the Earth’s Resources
by Javier Blas and Jack Farchy · 25 Feb 2021 · 565pp · 134,138 words
Carjacked: The Culture of the Automobile and Its Effect on Our Lives
by Catherine Lutz and Anne Lutz Fernandez · 5 Jan 2010 · 269pp · 104,430 words
Gaming the Vote: Why Elections Aren't Fair (And What We Can Do About It)
by William Poundstone · 5 Feb 2008
The Making of an Atlantic Ruling Class
by Kees Van der Pijl · 2 Jun 2014 · 572pp · 134,335 words
The Predators' Ball: The Inside Story of Drexel Burnham and the Rise of the JunkBond Raiders
by Connie Bruck · 1 Jun 1989 · 507pp · 145,878 words
The Behavioral Investor
by Daniel Crosby · 15 Feb 2018 · 249pp · 77,342 words
The Data Warehouse Toolkit: The Definitive Guide to Dimensional Modeling
by Ralph Kimball and Margy Ross · 30 Jun 2013
Confidence Game: How a Hedge Fund Manager Called Wall Street's Bluff
by Christine S. Richard · 26 Apr 2010 · 459pp · 118,959 words
Mathematics of the Financial Markets: Financial Instruments and Derivatives Modelling, Valuation and Risk Issues
by Alain Ruttiens · 24 Apr 2013 · 447pp · 104,258 words
Breakout Nations: In Pursuit of the Next Economic Miracles
by Ruchir Sharma · 8 Apr 2012 · 411pp · 114,717 words
The Investopedia Guide to Wall Speak: The Terms You Need to Know to Talk Like Cramer, Think Like Soros, and Buy Like Buffett
by Jack (edited By) Guinan · 27 Jul 2009 · 353pp · 88,376 words
The Intelligent Asset Allocator: How to Build Your Portfolio to Maximize Returns and Minimize Risk
by William J. Bernstein · 12 Oct 2000
Last Man Standing: The Ascent of Jamie Dimon and JPMorgan Chase
by Duff McDonald · 5 Oct 2009 · 419pp · 130,627 words
The Essays of Warren Buffett: Lessons for Corporate America
by Warren E. Buffett and Lawrence A. Cunningham · 2 Jan 1997 · 219pp · 15,438 words
The Making of Global Capitalism
by Leo Panitch and Sam Gindin · 8 Oct 2012 · 823pp · 206,070 words
Guide to business modelling
by John Tennent, Graham Friend and Economist Group · 15 Dec 2005 · 287pp · 44,739 words
The Great Depression: A Diary
by Benjamin Roth, James Ledbetter and Daniel B. Roth · 21 Jul 2009 · 408pp · 94,311 words
Capitalism in America: A History
by Adrian Wooldridge and Alan Greenspan · 15 Oct 2018 · 585pp · 151,239 words
Infonomics: How to Monetize, Manage, and Measure Information as an Asset for Competitive Advantage
by Douglas B. Laney · 4 Sep 2017 · 374pp · 94,508 words
Toward Rational Exuberance: The Evolution of the Modern Stock Market
by B. Mark Smith · 1 Jan 2001 · 403pp · 119,206 words
Debt of Honor
by Tom Clancy · 2 Jan 1994
J.K. Lasser's Your Income Tax 2014
by J. K. Lasser · 5 Oct 2013 · 1,845pp · 567,850 words
Python for Finance
by Yuxing Yan · 24 Apr 2014 · 408pp · 85,118 words
After the Music Stopped: The Financial Crisis, the Response, and the Work Ahead
by Alan S. Blinder · 24 Jan 2013 · 566pp · 155,428 words
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by Philippe Legrain · 22 Apr 2014 · 497pp · 150,205 words
Unleashed
by Anne Morriss and Frances Frei · 1 Jun 2020 · 394pp · 57,287 words
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The King of Oil: The Secret Lives of Marc Rich
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Reamde
by Neal Stephenson · 19 Sep 2011 · 1,318pp · 403,894 words
Money and Government: The Past and Future of Economics
by Robert Skidelsky · 13 Nov 2018
A Colossal Failure of Common Sense: The Inside Story of the Collapse of Lehman Brothers
by Lawrence G. Mcdonald and Patrick Robinson · 21 Jul 2009 · 430pp · 140,405 words
The Four Pillars of Investing: Lessons for Building a Winning Portfolio
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The Finance Book: Understand the Numbers Even if You're Not a Finance Professional
by Stuart Warner and Si Hussain · 20 Apr 2017 · 439pp · 79,447 words
Restarting the Future: How to Fix the Intangible Economy
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Hedgehogging
by Barton Biggs · 3 Jan 2005
The Price of Time: The Real Story of Interest
by Edward Chancellor · 15 Aug 2022 · 829pp · 187,394 words
The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money & Power
by Daniel Yergin · 23 Dec 2008 · 1,445pp · 469,426 words
J.K. Lasser's Your Income Tax
by J K Lasser Institute · 30 Oct 2012 · 2,045pp · 566,714 words
Age of Greed: The Triumph of Finance and the Decline of America, 1970 to the Present
by Jeff Madrick · 11 Jun 2012 · 840pp · 202,245 words
Irrational Exuberance: With a New Preface by the Author
by Robert J. Shiller · 15 Feb 2000 · 319pp · 106,772 words
The Trade Lifecycle: Behind the Scenes of the Trading Process (The Wiley Finance Series)
by Robert P. Baker · 4 Oct 2015
How I Became a Quant: Insights From 25 of Wall Street's Elite
by Richard R. Lindsey and Barry Schachter · 30 Jun 2007
The Green New Deal: Why the Fossil Fuel Civilization Will Collapse by 2028, and the Bold Economic Plan to Save Life on Earth
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Sam Walton: Made in America
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The Chairman's Lounge: The inside story of how Qantas sold us out
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The Acquirer's Multiple: How the Billionaire Contrarians of Deep Value Beat the Market
by Tobias E. Carlisle · 13 Oct 2017 · 120pp · 33,892 words
Money Changes Everything: How Finance Made Civilization Possible
by William N. Goetzmann · 11 Apr 2016 · 695pp · 194,693 words
Extreme Money: Masters of the Universe and the Cult of Risk
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All the Money in the World
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The Joys of Compounding: The Passionate Pursuit of Lifelong Learning, Revised and Updated
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Trading and Exchanges: Market Microstructure for Practitioners
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Triumph of the Optimists: 101 Years of Global Investment Returns
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The Little Book That Builds Wealth: The Knockout Formula for Finding Great Investments
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Anatomy of the Bear: Lessons From Wall Street's Four Great Bottoms
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Your Money or Your Life: 9 Steps to Transforming Your Relationship With Money and Achieving Financial Independence: Revised and Updated for the 21st Century
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