Quality of Earnings - Finding the Bad

Enron, WorldCom, Arthur Andersen...the list of corporations that flamed out due to crooked bookkeeping keeps growing. Too bad more investors didn't have the knowledge of Jay Taparia at their disposal. Mr. Taparia explains how to wring the vital signs out of the financial statements to see how corporations are really performing
Mr. Taparia is founder and managing director for Sanskar Investments, a money management and financial planning firm. He also recently started Sanskar Tax and Accounting and Sanskar Insurance Services as adjunct companies to Sanskar Investments.

Mr. Taparia is a frequent speaker for the public awareness group of CFA Institute (see the CFA Institute pressroom for a listing of the topics he has presented). His key focus has been educating business journalists on financial statements. His capabilities include bringing journalists and analysts together − and thus, more press for local CFA societies.

Mr. Taparia is a lecturer at various Universities in the Chicago land area. Previously, he taught undergraduate and graduate finance and entrepreneurship courses at the University of Illinois at Chicago. As former director of education for the Chicago CFA Society, he designed continuing education courses for members on such subjects as financial statement analysis and alternative assets. Previously, Mr. Taparia served as senior portfolio manager within the investment advisory group at Bank One Investment Management and was a corporate banker for First Chicago Capital Markets. He holds an MBA from the J.L. Kellogg Graduate School of Management at Northwestern University and a BA in business administration from Southern Methodist University.

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