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Musings on Markets: META Lesson 3: Tell me a story!

CFO News Room

In the second post, I pointed to inconsistencies in how accountants classify operating, capital and financing expenses , and the consequences for reported accounting numbers. Even as data has become more accessible and our tools have become more powerful, it is my belief that the quality of valuations has degraded over time.

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META Lesson 3: Tell me a story!

Musings on Markets

In the second post, I pointed to inconsistencies in how accountants classify operating, capital and financing expenses , and the consequences for reported accounting numbers. Facebook, I argued, is a corporate autocracy, with Mark Zuckerberg at its helm.

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Transcript: Joel Tillinghast, Fidelity

Barry Ritholtz

You fell in love with investing as an 8-year-old. Joel Tillinghast : Well, okay, G, when he was six, my grandfather, who was a bookkeeper accountant at a textile mill died and my grandmother was a second string violin at the Providence Symphony Orchestra, which didn’t pay well then, and I suspect didn’t pay well now.