Robert Olstein

forensic accounting value, "look behind the numbers"

Founder of Olstein Capital Management and portfolio manager of the Olstein All Cap Value Fund. Built his reputation on rigorous quality-of-earnings analysis, trained in part under Thornton O'Glove, dissecting footnotes and accruals to distinguish genuine cash flows from accounting artefacts. His 'look behind the numbers' discipline aims to avoid value traps by identifying manipulated or misleading reported earnings.