How should an investor challenge the market price and find value? Stephen Penman’s latest book provides a new lens, arguing that value investing is a matter of understanding the business through accounting. In addition to a brief presentation of the book, Mr. Penman will be holding a general Q&A session with the audience.

This is a strictly on-site event which will NOT be broadcasted online. Tickets must be held in order to attend. 

The event will be in English only.

Stephen Penman is the George O. May Professor in the Graduate School of Business, Columbia University where he is also co-director of the Center for Excellence in Accounting and Security Analysis and director of the Masters Program in Accounting and Fundamental Analysis.

Prior to his appointment at Columbia in 1999, Penman was the L.H. Penney Professor in the Walter A. Haas School of Business at the University of California at Berkeley. He joined Berkeley in 1977. From 1990-95 he served as Chair of the Professional Accounting Program and Chairman of the Accounting Faculty at Berkeley.

Penman has served as a Visiting Professor at Bocconi University the University of Padua, the London Business School, the Jan Wallander Visiting Professor at the Stockholm School of Economics, and in the Cheng Tsang Mun Chair Visiting Professorship at Singapore Management University. He has also been a visitor at Peking (Beijing) University and the Swedish Institute for Financial Research and a distinguished visiting scholar at Stanford Business School. He is an Honorary Professor at the City University of Hong Kong.