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 ...

Managers engage in income smoothing either to communicate private information about future earnings to investors (informativeness hypothesis) or to distort financial performance for opportunistic purposes (opportunism hypothesis). Business cycles and the monitoring role of institutional ownership may affect the earnings informativeness of income smoothing. The purpose of this research is to exa...

this paper investigates the link between accrual and cash flow components of earnings and future abnormal earnings and equity values. the base of tests in this paper is ohlson (1999) model and net income, equity book value and return on equity book value, is the variables that used in this paper. the statistical population of this research is the firms accepted in the tehran stock exchange that...

We investigate the ability of a tax-based fundamental—the ratio of tax-to-book income— to predict earnings growth and stock returns and to explain the earnings-price ratio. This tax fundamental reflects both temporary and permanent book-tax differences as well as tax accruals, such as changes in the tax valuation allowance. We find that the tax-to-book income ratio predicts subsequent five-year...

We investigate the ability of a tax-based fundamental—the ratio of taxto-book income—to predict earnings growth and stock returns and to explain the earnings-price ratio. This tax fundamental reflects both temporary and permanent book-tax differences as well as tax accruals, such as changes in the tax valuation allowance. We find that the tax-to-book income ratio predicts subsequent five-year e...

tive workers. This article Summary involves introducing a fundamentally new describes two new methods for kind of pension formula. estimating the career profile In order to assess the effect of Social This article presents two broad of earnings for representative Security reform on current and future approaches to creating representative workers. It then compares the results of those new method...

My dissertation examines the stock market’s assessment of corporate mandatory and voluntary disclosure. Specifically, the first part of the dissertation investigates the stock market reaction to the mandatory segment reporting changes and the second part studies how the stock market assesses credibility of voluntary management forecasts. The dissertation is composed of two essays. The first ess...