Download or read book Concise Guide to Value Investing written by Brian McNiven and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2016-05-12 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The business performance creates the value -- the price createsthe OPPORTUNITY. No-one likes to pay too much for something. We all like to thingthat what we buy is ' good value'. It's not different when wepurchase a share in company listed on the stock market. In the Concise Guide to Value Investing, Brian McNivenreveals how to calculate the true value of a company to find outwhether you are paying a fair price. This fascinating bookexplores: value investing versus speculation the difference between price and value variable values of a dollar of earnings accounting misrepresentation the characteristics of a wonderful business the StockVal® valuation formula. Two of the world's most successful investors, Warren Buffett andCharlie Munger, are self-confessed value investors. McNiven oftendraws on their wisdom to support his approach to valueinvesting,which he defines as buying a share at a price lower thanits calculated value. Only investors who have the ability tocalculate value can call themselves 'value investors'.