Company Valuation Under IFRS (Third Edition): Interpreting and forecasting accounts using International Financial Reporting Standards

About Deborah TaylorKenneth LeeNick Antill

After graduating in economics and politics Nick Antill began his career in the oil industry working for BP and Saudi Aramco. He subsequently spent 16 years in the City of London as an equity investment analyst specialising in European energy companies and as head of Morgan Stanley's European oil and gas equity research team. Since 2000 he has been a director of an energy consultancy company provided financial training mainly to investment bankers and has been retained as a consultant by the European equity research departments of two major investment banks. He has authored numerous articles and a previous book (with Robert Arnott) entitled Valuing Oil and Gas Companies (Woodhead Publishing Ltd 1994 and 2000). Kenneth Lee's career has steadfastly remained centred around nance research and education. Kenneth is an Associate Professorial Lecturer at the London School of Economics and Political Science where he lectures on financial analysis and equity valuation as well as being the programme director for the MSc Accounting and Finance and MSc Accounting Organisations and Institutions. Before academia Kenneth was a Managing Director and Head of European Equity Research at Barclays Capital where he worked for eight years before leaving in August 2017 to take up a number of academic positions. Prior to this he was also a Managing Director and a ranked accounting and valuation analyst at Citi Investment Research in London. During this time Kenneth published extensively on accounting and valuation topics for investors and was ranked in the top three in the Institutional Investor Survey over more than a continuous ten-year period. In addition to co-authoring Company Valuation Under IFRS Ken has also co-authored an accounting book (with Deborah Taylor) entitled Financial Statement Analysis Under IFRS (Financial Edge 2018). Deborah Taylor works as a professional trainer at Financial Edge where she provides accounting modelling and valuation training to investment banks. Deborah's move into professional training was relatively recent having worked at Barclays until May 2019 where she was a Director in Equity Research and co-head of Sustainable and Thematic Investing. Deborah spent eight years at Barclays focussing on accounting and valuation research whilst working with her co-author Kenneth and where they were one of the top ranked teams in their sector. In the later years Deborah had broadened her remit to include research on corporate governance issues including corporate taxation and regulation. Deborah is a Chartered Accountant having qualified at Deloitte where she worked in the Financial Services audit division. Prior to training as an accountant she graduated from the Queen's College Oxford University with a Master's degree in Physics. She is also co-author of the book Financial Statement Analysis Under IFRS (Financial Edge 2018).