237 Holman Hall
Phone: (662) 915-7721
Fax: (662)
915-5821
E-mail: mwalker@bus.olemiss.edu
Profile
Dr. M. Mark
Walker is an associate professor of finance at The University of
Mississippi. His primary teaching and research interests include
corporate finance, investments, and business valuation (please see Course Assignments
below).
He earned a B.S. degree from
Dr. Walker is a member of Financial Executives International, the CFA Institute, the Institute of Business Appraisers (IBA), the National Association of Forensic Economics (NAFE), and the National Business Valuation Group, LLC. He currently serves as a Trustee of the Financial Executive Research Foundation (FERF). FERF is the research affiliate of Financial Executives International (FEI).
Research Activities
Dr. Walker has published over 25 articles in academic and practitioner journals including Financial Management, The Financial Review, Applied Financial Economics, The Financial Services Review, The Quarterly Journal of Business and Economics, Business Appraisal Practice, and Valuation Strategies (please see Curriculum Vitae). His current research examines:
1) the relation between corporate strategy and changes in acquiring-firm shareholder wealth,
2) the methods business appraisers use to estimate the value of S Corporations and other pass-through entities, and
3) the methods business appraisers use to estimate the cost of equity for a privately-held firm.
Consulting Activities
Dr. Walker is a financial consultant, who has devoted particular attention to the valuation of small businesses and closely-held corporations. His appraisal experience includes manufacturing firms, retail stores, and professional and non-professional service businesses. Numerous events preceded these appraisal assignments, including a dissenter’s rights action, marital dissolutions, a potential sale, and the owner’s need for estate planning.
Dr. Walker also serves as a financial expert by estimating the reduction in an individual’s work-life earnings capacity following a personal injury.
Course
Assignments
Fin 635 Financial Management II (Ph.D. level)
Fin 533 Security Analysis and Portfolio Management (Senior, MBA)
Fin 531 Finance Case Course (Senior, MBA)
Fin 431 Business Finance II (Undergraduate level)
Fin 338 Intermediate Financial Management (Undergraduate level)
Fin 334 Investments (Undergraduate level)
Fin 331 Business Finance I (Undergraduate level)
MBA 611 MBA Skills I (Fundamentals of statistics and finance)
BUS 230 Business Statistics I (Undergraduate level)