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We study the process of corporate restructuring for a sample of 298 firms during the 1989-98 period that announce that they are considering restructuring alternatives. We find that restructuring is a lengthy process, with the majority of the restructuring period occurring prior to any definitive...
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Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: The Basics Of Time Value Of Money -- Chapter 3: Valuation Of Cash Flows …, Annuities And Perpetuities -- Chapter 4: Sources And Cost Of Long-Term Capital -- Chapter 5: Valuation Of Fixed Income … Securities -- Chapter 6: Valuation Of Equities -- Chapter 7: Firm And Equity Valuation Using Free Cash Flow Models -- Chapter 8 …
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Researchers have used patent counts, citation weighted patent counts, as well as research and development spending to measure innovation with, at times, conflicting results. We benchmark the validity of these innovation proxies using a novel data set of appraised tangible and intangible assets....
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The purpose of this study is to examine whether merged banks are engaged in earnings management just prior to the merger. I use the Modified Jones model for the empirical tests. Other studies have used the Modified Jones model on multi-industry manufacturing samples. Two other studies (Key 1997;...
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The primary objective of this study is to construct a valid and reliable instrument to quantitatively measure the quality of internal audit function via level of conformance by internal auditors towards the International Professional Practice Framework (IPPF). Two separate pilot tests were...
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This study examines the sophistication of rating agencies in incorporating managerial risk-taking incentives into their credit risk evaluation. We measure risk-taking incentives using two proxies: the sensitivity of managerial wealth to stock return volatility (vega) and the sensitivity of...
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Does corporate compliance help to reduce firm risk? We explore this question by examining the reported compliance activities of 150 publicly listed German firms over the years 2014 to 2018. We build a summary score that accounts for 24 clearly identifiable compliance elements and find that...
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We examine the relation between passive ownership and financial reporting quality measured by Beneish's (1999) earnings' manipulation score (M-score). We find that passive ownership is negatively related to M-score and to the likelihood of being designated as a “manipulator” firm. However,...
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The press has given the public the impression that insider trading is evil, unethical and illegal, when in fact such is not always the case. In some cases, insider trading is beneficial to the economy and to shareholders. Whether insider trading is harmful, unethical or illegal depends on many...
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