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

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In the second post, I pointed to inconsistencies in how accountants classify operating, capital and financing expenses , and the consequences for reported accounting numbers. In the first session of my valuation class, I pose a question, “What comes more naturally to you, telling a story or working with numbers?”

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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. That is because the answer will vary across people, with some exhibiting a more natural tendency towards story-telling and others towards working with numbers.

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Transcript: Joel Tillinghast, Fidelity

Barry Ritholtz

You fell in love with investing as an 8-year-old. And because my mother and grandmother were looking at these trying to figure out what was going on, I was curious about the sea of numbers. But in the New York Times, there was an advertisement that the value line investment survey needed analysts. Tell us about that.