This accounting case/instructional aid describes methods and strategies for students new to the case method and an actual case to work on. The objectives of this aid are: 1) to present a detailed approach that a student new to the case method can use for working on cases, independent of the need...

This paper examines the relationship between firms' decisions to expense employee stock options (ESOs) under the voluntary period of SFAS 123 and their beginning-of-period market-to-book (MTB-1) ratio and conditional conservatism. Conservatism is chosen because, even though expensing of ESOs is...

This paper investigates accounting conservatism's effects on accrual persistence and accrual-related future stock returns. We find conservatism significantly increases accrual persistence and accrual-related future stock returns and more so in high accrual firms. We attribute this to...