Reporting Conservatism, Loss Reversals, and Earnings-based Valuation

Loss Reversals and Earnings-based Valuation

Balance sheet conservatism and audit reporting conservatism

1Division of Accounting, School of Business, NanyangBusiness School, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore 2Leventhal School of Accounting,Marshall School of Business, University of SouthernCalifornia, USA Correspondence Clive Lennox, Leventhal School ofAccounting, Marshall School ofBusiness,University of SouthernCalifornia, 3670TrousdaleParkway, Los Angeles,CA90089,USA. Email: clennox@us...

A Generalized Earnings-based Stock Valuation Model

This paper provides a model for valuing stocks that takes into account the stochastic processes for earnings and interest rates. Our analysis differs from past research of this type in being applicable to stocks that have a positive probability of zero or negative earnings. By avoiding the singularity at the zero point, our earnings-based pricing model achieves improved pricing performance. The...

An Investigation of Relationship between Earnings Conservatism and Price to Book Ratio Based on Basu’s Method

One of the most important concepts in financial statement analysis and evaluation is conservatism. Thus recognition of the factors which influence conservatism can considerably help the investor in managing the selection of more conservative assets properly and avoiding the untrue exposure of financial statements. This research is about to consider the relation of effective factors on organizat...

Accrual Reversals, Earnings and Stock Returns

Accounting accruals anticipate future economic benefits. They are intended to reverse upon the realization of the anticipated future benefits, such that their reversals have no net impact on future earnings. In practice, however, we show that extreme accruals exhibit a high frequency of subsequent reversals that do impact future earnings. We demonstrate that these reversals explain a number of ...