In order to obtain SEO (Secondary Equity Offering) qualification, china listed companies would do different levels of earnings management centering on accounting earnings indicators. While previous researches on earnings management are mainly focused on enterprise management authorities’ accruals manipulation. In fact, in order to avoid losses, the user of statements would pay more attention to...

A resource investment problem is a project-scheduling problem in which the availability levels of the resources are considered decision variables and the goal is to find a schedule and resource requirement levels such that some objective function optimizes. In this paper, we consider a resource investment problem in which the goal is to maximize the net present value of the project cash flows. ...

This article describes an expert system for cash flow analysis called CFA--Cash Flow Analyzer. which uses knowledge based on ratio analysis and the budgetary statement of changes in cash flow. The system uses "If ••• Then ••• " rules to capture the expertise necessary to diagnose the source of cash flow problems and make recommendations on how to mitigate those problems. 1. AN EXPERT SYSTEM FOR...

A classical problem, coming up frequently in practical business, is the valuation of future cash flows which are somewhat risky. By the term “risky” we mean that the payment is not of a deterministic nature; rather there is some uncertainty on the amount of the future cash flows. Of course, in real life virtually everything happening in the future contains some elements of riskiness. As a first...

On January 1, 2000, Medicare extended the coverage of immunosuppression medications from 3 years to life for elderly and disabled kidney transplant recipients. This research estimates the impact of extending this lifetime coverage to all kidney transplant recipients on Medicare's cash flows. The study finds that extending coverage to all kidney transplant recipients would have increased Medicar...

This paper examines the relative importance of earnings and operating cash flows in equity valuation. In contrast to previous studies that use stock returns or future operating cash flows, we use ex post intrinsic value of equity as the criterion for comparison. Ex post intrinsic value of equity is determined adopting both the discounted dividend and residual income models with ex post (future)...

The present study aimed at investigating the effect of debt and free cash flows on tax avoidance by emphasizing the role of institutional ownership in companies listed on the Tehran Stock Exchange. The statistical population of the study includes all companies listed on the Tehran Stock Exchange from 2013 to 2019. The statistical data for testing hypotheses based on the databases of Tehran Stoc...