The Endgame

I started this book with the argument that stories without numbers are just fairy tales and numbers without stories to back them up are exercises in financial modeling. In the intervening chapters, I hope that I have filled in the gap between the storytellers and number crunchers and perhaps offered...

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Published inNarrative and Numbers pp. 263 - 266
Main Author Damodaran, Aswath
Format Book Chapter
LanguageEnglish
Published United States Columbia University Press 2017
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Summary:I started this book with the argument that stories without numbers are just fairy tales and numbers without stories to back them up are exercises in financial modeling. In the intervening chapters, I hope that I have filled in the gap between the storytellers and number crunchers and perhaps offered each side a guide on how to build a bridge to the other side. Along the way, I hope (though I may not always have succeeded) that I kept the conversation going with investors, managers, entrepreneurs, and even interested onlookers. At the very beginning, I made a confession that I
ISBN:0231180489
9780231180481
DOI:10.7312/damo18048-016