Purpose – This paper's aim is twofold: first, it seeks to examine the impact of financial transparency on the returns-earnings relation and second, to test for the existence of conservative accounting between 1995 and 2004. Design/methodology/approach – The data were collected from a sample...

This paper aims at examining the impact of earnings and cash flows relevance on stock return movements within the Greek capital market from 1996 to 2004. Results indicated that earnings have higher incremental importance in explaining stock return movements compared with cash flows as earnings...

This study examines how the informational quality of annual accounting earnings, varies according to the size and composition of the board of directors of publicly listed firms within the Greek capital market. Data analysis over a period of five years (2000-2004) revealed that the...

Purpose – The aim of this paper is to examine the relevance of financial reporting. In order to achieve this, a model that includes specific ratios is developed, which have proved to be indicators of falsified financial statements in the Greek capital market, and by estimating accruals...

This paper aims at examining the impact of earnings and cash flows relevance on stock return movements within the Greek capital market from 1996 to 2004. Results indicated that earnings have higher incremental importance in explaining stock return movements compared with cash flows as earnings...

This study investigates the informational content of losses and their effect on the association between earnings and stock returns. Previous studies demonstrated that losses are less informative than positive earnings since they are not expected to prolong (Hayn, 1995). Our results prove that...