Since stocks’ systematic and unsystematic risks are considered the basic requirements to form an investment risk profile, this article develops a discriminant model to monitor the systematic and unsystematic risk in the Dubai Financial Market (DFM) general index. Three sectors are...

Purpose – In contrast to recent US studies, almost all prior UK studies have not supported the incremental information content of cash flow beyond earnings. In addition, to date no UK study has addressed the effect of earnings extremity on the incremental information content of cash flow and...

Purpose - Many studies examine the relative information content of earnings and cash flows from operations. Most studies find that earnings have higher information content than cash flows. An interesting question that follows is whether these findings hold after controlling the extremity of...