the purpose of this paper is to investigate the association between the intellectual capital of firms and their earnings quality. the research was conducted with 158 accepted companies and 948 firm-year observations from iran stock market. empirical studies were conducted based on hypothesis by value added intellectual coefficient as measures of intellectual capital and taking absolute value of...

This paper uses Italian panel data from the private and public sectors and analyses earnings dynamics by applying the minimum distance estimator of Chamberlain (1984). We consider two main aspects of earnings careers. First, we estimate a measure of earnings growth heterogeneity, whereby quantifying to what extent the two sectors differ in the ability to differentiate remuneration of time-varyi...

The background of this research is some the results previous regarding informativeness value profit (value relevance). objective to find empirical evidence influence enterprise risk management and intellectual capital on earnings response coefficient. study uses size industry type control variables with multiple linear regression data analysis techniques. sample 143 companies purposive sampling...

Both prior research and the popular financial press suggest that earnings smoothing is associated with higher valuations, per dollar of reported earnings. Apparently, smoothing causes reported earnings to be a less noisy measure of “permanent” earnings that can be sustained over the longterm. We extend those results to examine whether earnings smoothing is associated with higher valuations per ...