The Effect of Accounting Method Choice on Earnings Quality: A Study of Analysts' Forecasts of Earnings and Book Value

Whether the quality of a firm's reported earnings affects investors' ability to predict future earnings and stock returns is still a subject of much debate among accounting researchers. Lev (1989) suggests that low quality earnings may be causing the relatively low correlation between repo...

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Main Author: Martin, Kris Rowland
Other Authors: Accounting and Information Systems
Format: Others
Published: Virginia Tech 2014
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10919/29240
http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-10112005-115737/