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In this study, a model is introduced to explain the relation between the speed of market reaction to accounting earnings information and the precision of an individual's expectations prior to the earnings announcement. The model predicts that the relationship is negative. A method of estimating...
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This study investigates whether alternative cash flow measures have an incremental information content over accounting measure. This study employes the arbitrage argument to establish an economic model which makes it possible to incorporate raw accounting variables into a return generating...
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Currency risk in the pricing of international equity returns is analyzed from an empirical viewpoint. The significance of other factors, such as the domestic market index, world index, and industry index is also analyzed.
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In Chapter I, the firm's accounts receivable sales decision is modeled both in the case where it is constrained to sell the entire receivable (factoring) and in the case where it has the flexibility to sell a portion of the receivable (receivables securitization.) It is found that because of a...
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An objective of both economic structural and accounting time-series literature has been to understand the economic factors driving the systematic properties of corporate earnings. The purpose of this dissertation is twofold: (1) to help explain why these research areas are unable to find the...
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This dissertation provides an investigation of the earnings surprise associated with the quarterly earnings announcement. The examination of a wide variety of forecast models allows insight into the ability of these models to capture the earnings expectations of the market.
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public, being beyond all but specially trained accountants and finance professionals. …The study methodology has three parts: a descriptive analysis of sample documents; a survey of finance directors …. The CAFR model needs to be simplified, organized better, and common language used. GASB, the Government Finance Officers …
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This study extends the existing research on the use of financial statement variables to predict one-year-ahead earnings changes. A principal component analysis was conducted on 61 financial statement variables in an attempt to describe the dimensionality of the variables and facilitate the...
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The focus of this research is on management's communication of uncertainty (attested to by auditors) and the potential for miscommunication due to the communication mode used in accounting disclosures. The following two research questions are addressed: First, do users of financial statements...
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This dissertation examines the value-relevance and reliability of intangible assets common to the banking industry. The …This dissertation examines the value-relevance and reliability of intangible assets common to the banking industry. The …
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