
Financial Statement Analysis for Value Investing
Columbia University Press · Hardcover · April 8, 2025
How should an investor challenge the market price and find value?
We earn from qualifying purchases.
- Who it’s for
- Penman and Pope connect accounting fundamentals with business understanding to help challenge market pricing.
- Genres
- Investment & Trading Strategies, Financial Accounting, Business Valuation
- Published
- Columbia University Press, April 8, 2025
Nearest books
Matched by what the books are about, then ordered by what their readers also loved. Most of these share its genre: Business Valuation.
Business ValuationNACVA, Lari B. Masten63% matchAlso shares Financial Accounting
ValueMcKinsey & Company Inc., Tim Koller62% match
Financial Modeling and ValuationPaul Pignataro62% matchAlso shares Investment & Trading Strategies
The Little Book of ValuationAswath Damodaran61% match
Financial StatementsThomas Ittelson, Thomas R. Ittelson60% matchAlso shares Financial Accounting
Damodaran on Valuation, Study GuideAswath Damodaran60% matchAlso shares Investment & Trading Strategies
Warren Buffett and the Interpretation of Financial StatementsMary Buffett, David Clark60% matchAlso shares Investment & Trading Strategies and Financial Accounting
ValuationSeth Bernstrom60% match
Start with three books, and this one can be the first.
Members get a new edition every morning: a route out from their books to essays, research and talks, with the reason for each.
Start with this bookAbout this book
How should an investor challenge the market price and find value? This book provides a new lens, arguing that value investing is a matter of understanding the business through accounting. Stephen Penman and Peter F. Pope—leading authorities on accounting and its investment applications—demonstrate why attention to financial statements is the key to judicious valuation.
Continue reading
More broadly, they show that accounting fundamentals, when analyzed in a systematic manner, teach us how to think about value in new ways. This guide to investing through analysis of financial statements presents both underlying principles and practical examples. It examines how an accounting book is structured, the ways to read one in order to extract information about value, and why accounting techniques help investors avoid common traps. Through cases that depict finance, investing, and accounting principles in action, readers learn crucial lessons for challenging the market’s pricing. Financial Statement Analysis for Value Investing is essential reading for anyone interested in the fundamentals of value investing, practitioners and students alike. Both professional and individual investors can benefit from its techniques and insights, and it is well suited for value investing and financial statement analysis courses in business schools.
Accounting and Value
Penman and Pope connect accounting fundamentals with business understanding to help challenge market pricing.
Come here for
- Reading financial statements to extract information about value
- Cases illustrating finance, investing, and accounting principles
Expect
- Underlying principles and practical examples
- Ways to read accounting books and avoid common valuation traps
Where it sits
| Business Valuation | 68% |
|---|---|
| Investment & Trading Strategies | 51% |
| Financial Accounting | 43% |
Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.
Publisher categories
- Accounting
- Financial Accounting
- Investing
- Authors
- Stephen Penman, Peter F. Pope
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press
- Published
- April 8, 2025
- Format
- Hardcover
- Reading lane
- Accounting