The Valuation Handbook: Valuation Techniques from Today's Top Practitioners

"Given the large and increasing supply of books available about valuing investments and businesses, I was initially skeptical of a market need for The Valuation Handbook. However, during my reading of the book's chapters, I encountered numerous useful and unique perspectives for both students and teachers of business valuation. The Valuation Handbook offers readers an interesting overview of different issues confronted by the professional (or amateur) valuation practitioner."—Daniel A. Rogers, Associate Professor of Finance, Portland State University

"Anybody who teaches or practices valuation should definitely consider this handbook because it includes a wide range of approaches to company and stock valuation including interesting new models as well as new insights related to widely accepted models."—Frank K. Reilly, Bernard J. Hank Professor of Finance, Mendoza College of Business, University of Notre Dame

"There is an old phrase about knowing the price of everything, and the value of nothing. That phrase unfortunately encompassed the global investment markets leading to 2008. If ever there was a time for improving techniques and perspectives on valuation, it is now, and this book delivers."—Michael Falk, CFA, VP and Chief Investment Officer, ProManage, LLC

"This is a great, insightful book for the newly minded analyst to veterans in the trenches. It broaches some new areas that have not been discussed within our industry."—Mitch Abeyta, Managing Director, Capital IQ–Compustat

Benton E. Gup, PhD, has served as a staff economist for the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland and currently holds the Robert Hunt Cochrane/Alabama Bankers Association Chair of Banking at the University of Alabama. Gup worked in bank research for the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency while on sabbatical in 1997. He is also the author or editor of a number of books in the area of finance.