Purpose – In response to recent concerns on earnings quality and a firm's fundamental performance, the purpose of this paper is to re‐examine salient questions under accrual accounting: how earnings quality affects the role of earnings and operating cash flows in a firm's valuation....

Purpose – In response to recent concerns on earnings quality and a firm's fundamental performance, the purpose of this paper is to re-examine salient questions under accrual accounting: how earnings quality affects the role of earnings and operating cash flows in a firm's valuation....

We examine the relation between operating cash flow (OCF) opacity and stock price crash risk. We find that OCF opacity is positively associated with future stock price crash risk after controlling for accruals opacity and other determinants known to influence crash risk. This finding suggests...