Income smoothing practices and empirical testing using discretionary accounting changes

A Relationship Between Income Smoothing Practices And Firms Value In Iran

Income Smoothing, Investor Reaction and Earnings Persistence

The main objective of this study was to investigate the effect of income smoothing on investors reaction to Earnings Persistence of companies listed on the Stock Exchange in Tehran. The population of the study was companies listed on the Stock Exchange in Tehran, the sample size due to screening method and after removing outliers is equal to 118 companies. In this study, earnings persistence an...

IT Productivity and Aggregation using Income Accounting

Introduction We examine the relationship between the Cobb-Douglas production function that is frequently used in information technology (IT) productivity studies and the income accounting identity. In doing so we evaluate the impact of this relationship on the question about aggregation from firm-level data to industry-level data when estimating IT productivity, that is, whether industry-level ...

a relationship between income smoothing practices and firms value in iran

Remittances and Income Smoothing

Remittances and Income Smoothing Due to inadequate savings and binding borrowing constraints, income volatility can make households in developing countries particularly susceptible to economic hardship. We examine the role of remittances in either alleviating or increasing household income volatility using Mexican household level data over the 2000 through 2008 period. We correct for reverse ca...