In this paper, we develop a framework for evaluating the impact of conservative accounting on the structure of residual income models of equity valuation. This affords a theoretical model of the signs and sizes of the valuation weights attached to book values, earnings and dividends as a...

Residual income models provide an important theoretical link between equity valuation and financial statement variables. While various researchers have developed models of how accounting policy impacts on the structure of these models, empirical support for these models is at best weak and...