In his paper, Professor Landsman reviews research on both the relevance and reliability of reporting fair values for loans and other financial instruments (Landsman (2005)). Accounting standard setters define fair value as the amount that would be paid or received for the item being valued in an arm’s length transaction between knowledgeable parties. This is a market value definition and the st...

the purpose of business entity is to maximize shareholders wealth by enhancing the firm’s value thus, getting expected returns are very important for them. investors and creditors are going to find a precise scale for measuring overall performance of a firm as a whole to decide whether to invest in the firm, to continue with the firm or to exit from it. economic value added (eva) is an analytic...

We investigate the changes in the value relevance of accounting information among Chinese firms over the past two decades, during which accounting reforms are launched to provide decision makers with increased disclosure and higher quality financial information. We also investigate the factors that differentiate firms showing significant value relevance improvement from firms showing little imp...

The efficient market hypothesis states that the market incorporates all available information to provide an accurate valuation of the asset at any given time. However, most models for forecasting the return or volatility of assets completely disregard the arrival of asset specific news (i.e., news which is directly relevant to the asset). In this paper we propose a simple adaptation to the GARC...

The literature shows that during the COVID-19 pandemic, value relevance of earnings decreased. Traditionally, measures using relationship between stock returns and earnings. However, these tests are, in fact, “joint reliability”. This caveat can distort measurement relevance, especially pandemic where exceptional level uncertainty could have affected reliability to different extents. study dise...