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Narrative and Numbers: The Value of Stories in Business

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What You’ll Learn

  • Connect Business Stories to Financial Assumptions
  • Evaluate What Drives a Company's Value
  • Test Forecasts Against Plausible Evidence

Aswath Damodaran explains how a business story and its financial assumptions can inform each other. Using company examples, he shows readers how to connect growth, risk, and profitability to valuation, and how to challenge forecasts before relying on them.

  • Author: Aswath Damodaran
  • Publisher: Columbia Business School Publishing
  • Format: Hardcover
  • Publication date: January 10, 2017
  • ISBN-13: 9780231180481
  • ISBN-10: 0231180489
  • Pages: 296
  • Book weight: 1.25 lb
  • Dimensions: 1.2 × 9.1 × 6.4 inches