Equity Valuation in a Global Context Author:Richard Barker, Patricia A. McConnell, Stefano F. Cavaglia, Vadim Moroz, Sophie Blanpain, Gerco Goote, Pieter Dekker, Barney H. Wilson, Nicola Ralston, Charles M.C. Lee Drawing on the wisdom of both academia and the practitioner world, this proceedings offers insights on a wide range of practical challenges faced by analysts and portfolio managers. Presentations address such key issues as why a company's price moves so violently over short periods of time in the absence of a correspondingly large change in the ... more »company's underlying business performance, the dichotomy between the search for the absolute value of a firm and the dependence on relative valuation approaches, and the challenges inherent in deriving accurate valuations from accounting information.« less