# Prof. Aswath Damodaran weighs in on HP's writedown

1 Faculty News November 21, 2012 ![The New York Times Logo](/sites/default/files/styles/246w/public/assets/images/uat_027320.jpg?itok=W8xBr66g)>

Excerpt from [The New York Times](http://dealbook.nytimes.com/2012/11/21/does-hewletts-big-charge-add-up/) -- "'Out of the $8.8 billion, I’d be very surprised if more than a couple of billion was due to accounting improprieties,' said [Aswath Damodaran](http://www.stern.nyu.edu/faculty/bio/aswath-damodaran), a professor of finance at New York University’s Stern School of Business."

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