Charles W. Mulford

Charles W. Mulford, Rust Visiting Professor of Business Administration

  • BA, University of South Florida; MS, Florida International University; PhD, Florida State University
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Phone: +1-404-894-4395 (at Georgia Tech) 
E-mail: Charles.Mulford@mgt.gatech.edu

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    Courses

    Financial Statement Analysis and Corporate Valuation

    Biography

    Charles W. Mulford is a Visiting Professor at the Darden School and the Invesco Chair and Professor of accounting in the College of Management at Georgia Tech.  Since joining the faculty in 1983, he has been recognized ten times as the Core Professor of the Year and four times as the Professor of the Year by the Graduate Students in Business Administration. In 1999, the graduate students voted to rename the Core Professor of the Year Award the “Charles W. Mulford Core Professor of the Year Award.” An additional teaching award he received in 2000 was the university-wide W. Roane Beard Outstanding Teacher Award.  

    Mulford’s scholarly pursuits include the publication of numerous papers in scholarly as well as professional accounting and finance journals. His research interests center on the effects of accounting standards on investment and credit decision-making, earnings forecasts and the relationship between accounting-based and market-based measures of risk. More recently, his research interests have turned to the use of published financial reports in cash flow analysis. He has co-authored four books, Financial Warnings, published in 1996, Guide to Financial Reporting and Analysis, published in 2000, The Financial Numbers Game: Identifying Creative Accounting Practices, published in 2002, and Creative Cash Flow Reporting: Uncovering Sustainable Financial Performance, published in 2005. In 2002, Mulford founded the Georgia Tech Financial Analysis Lab, which is dedicated to conducting independent stock market research. 

    Mulford has appeared on numerous broadcast networks, including CNBC, ABC News, and Bloomberg TV. In addition, he has been quoted over 400 times in several business publications, including the Wall Street Journal, the Financial Times, BusinessWeek, Forbes and Fortune. In addition to his work at Georgia Tech, Mulford regularly consults with major domestic and international commercial banks and money-management firms on issues related to credit and investment decision-making. He also serves as Director of Research to Cash Flow Analytics, LLC.

    Expertise

    Corporate Financial Reporting
    Financial Statement Analysis
    Credit Analysis
    Cash Flow Analysis and Forecasting
    Earnings Management
    Financial Fraud
    Corporate Valuation