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51.

Conservatism in Accounting - Part I: Explanations and Implications

Number of pages: 35 Posted: 06 Jun 2003
Working Paper Series
Ross L. Watts
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Sloan School of Management
Downloads 9,394
52.

Divisional Performance Measurement

Michael C. Jensen, FOUNDATIONS OF ORGANIZATIONAL STRATEGY, Harvard University Press, 1998
Number of pages: 22 Posted: 29 Nov 1998 Last Revised: 17 Jan 2011
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Michael C. Jensen and William H. Meckling
Harvard Business School and Simon School, University of Rochester (Deceased)

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Downloads 9,375
53.

High-Frequency Trading, Stock Volatility, and Price Discovery

Number of pages: 54 Posted: 14 Oct 2010 Last Revised: 27 Dec 2010
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Frank Zhang
Yale School of Management
Downloads 9,265
54.

Executive Compensation: Where We are, and How We Got There

George Constantinides, Milton Harris, and René Stulz (eds.), Handbook of the Economics of Finance. Elsevier Science North Holland (Forthcoming), Marshall School of Business Working Paper No. FBE 07.12
Number of pages: 179 Posted: 17 Apr 2012 Last Revised: 13 Aug 2012
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Kevin J. Murphy
University of Southern California - Marshall School of Business
Downloads 9,227
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Earnings Management: Reconciling the Views of Accounting Academics, Practitioners, and Regulators

Number of pages: 26 Posted: 08 May 2000
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Patricia Dechow and Douglas J. Skinner
USC Marshall School of Business and The University of Chicago - Booth School of Business
Downloads 9,095
56.

Earnings Management and Investor Protection: An International Comparison

MIT Sloan Working Paper No. 4225-01; EFA 2002 Berlin Meetings Presented Paper
Number of pages: 32 Posted: 18 Sep 2001 Last Revised: 17 Mar 2008
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Christian Leuz, Dhananjay Nanda and Peter D. Wysocki
University of Chicago - Booth School of Business, University of Miami - Department of Accounting and Boston University Questrom School of Business

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57.

Which is More Value-Relevant: Earnings or Cash Flows?

Number of pages: 50 Posted: 02 Sep 1998
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Ervin L. Black
Steed School of Accounting
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58.

Using the Balanced Scorecard as a Control System for Monitoring and Revising Corporate Strategy

Harvard NOM Working Paper No. 02-35
Number of pages: 45 Posted: 01 Oct 2002
Working Paper Series
Dennis Campbell, Srikant Datar, Susan Cohen Kulp and V. G. Narayanan
Harvard University - Accounting & Control Unit, Harvard University - Accounting & Control Unit, George Washington University - Department of Accountancy and Harvard University - Accounting & Control Unit
Downloads 8,809
59.

Explaining the Recent Failure of Value Investing

NYU Stern School of Business
Number of pages: 29 Posted: 28 Aug 2019 Last Revised: 31 Mar 2020
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Baruch Lev and Anup Srivastava
New York University - Stern School of Business and University of Calgary - Haskayne School of Business
Downloads 8,682
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Incentives or Standards: What Determines Accounting Quality Changes Around IFRS Adoption?

European Accounting Review Forthcoming
Number of pages: 50 Posted: 10 Sep 2007 Last Revised: 23 Feb 2015
Accepted Paper Series
Hans Bonde Christensen, Edward Lee, Martin Walker and Cheng (Colin) Zeng
University of Chicago - Booth School of Business, University of Manchester - Alliance Manchester Business School, University of Manchester - Manchester Business School and Hong Kong Polytechnic University
Downloads 8,641
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The Impact of Corporate Sustainability on Organizational Processes and Performance

Management Science, Volume 60, Issue 11, pp. 2835-2857, February 2014
Number of pages: 46 Posted: 25 Nov 2011 Last Revised: 01 Feb 2017
Accepted Paper Series
Robert G. Eccles, Ioannis Ioannou and George Serafeim
University of Oxford - Said Business School, London Business School - Department of Strategic & International Management and Harvard Business School

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Downloads 8,495
62.

Core Earnings: New Data and Evidence

Harvard Business School Accounting & Management Unit Working Paper No. 20-047, October 2019, Journal of Financial Economics (JFE), Forthcoming
Number of pages: 71 Posted: 11 Oct 2019 Last Revised: 24 Nov 2020
Accepted Paper Series
Ethan Rouen, Eric C. So and Charles C. Y. Wang
Harvard Business School, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Sloan School of Management and Harvard Business School
Downloads 8,476
63.

Is (Systematic) Value Investing Dead?

Journal of Portfolio Management, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 57 Posted: 09 Apr 2020 Last Revised: 12 Oct 2020
Accepted Paper Series
Ronen Israel, Kristoffer Laursen and Scott A. Richardson
AQR Capital Management, LLC, AQR Capital Management, LLC and AQR Capital Management, LLC
Downloads 8,443
64.

Combining Earnings and Book Value in Equity Valuation

Number of pages: 53 Posted: 05 Nov 1997
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Stephen H. Penman
Columbia Business School - Department of Accounting
Downloads 8,381
65.

Internal Audit Quality and Earnings Management

The Accounting Review, Vol. 84, No. 4, pp. 1255-1280, 2009
Number of pages: 42 Posted: 17 Jul 2006 Last Revised: 11 May 2010
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Douglas F. Prawitt, Jason L. Smith and David A. Wood
Brigham Young University, University of Nevada, Las Vegas and Brigham Young University - School of Accountancy
Downloads 8,352
66.

The Quality of Accruals and Earnings: The Role of Accrual Estimation Errors

Number of pages: 44 Posted: 20 Jul 2001
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Ilia D. Dichev and Patricia Dechow
Emory University - Department of Accounting and USC Marshall School of Business
Downloads 8,267
67.

Accrual Reliability, Earnings Persistence and Stock Prices

Journal of Accounting & Economics, Vol. 39, No. 3, September 2005
Number of pages: 65 Posted: 28 Mar 2004
Accepted Paper Series
Scott A. Richardson, Richard G. Sloan, Mark T. Soliman and A. Irem Tuna
AQR Capital Management, LLC, University of Southern California - Leventhal School of Accounting, University of Southern California - Marshall School of Business and London Business School
Downloads 8,235
68.

Accounting Information, Disclosure, and the Cost of Capital

Wharton Financial Institutions Center Working Paper Series #06-20
Number of pages: 47 Posted: 12 Oct 2005
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Richard A. Lambert, Christian Leuz and Robert E. Verrecchia
University of Pennsylvania - Accounting Department, University of Chicago - Booth School of Business and University of Pennsylvania - Accounting Department

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Downloads 8,114
69.

Earnings Quality: Evidence from the Field

Number of pages: 73 Posted: 10 Jul 2012 Last Revised: 21 Feb 2014
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Ilia D. Dichev, John R. Graham, Campbell R. Harvey and Shivaram Rajgopal
Emory University - Department of Accounting, Duke University, Duke University - Fuqua School of Business and Columbia Business School

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70.

Market Reaction to the Adoption of IFRS in Europe

Accounting Review, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 52 Posted: 19 May 2006 Last Revised: 04 Apr 2012
Accepted Paper Series
Chris Armstrong, Mary E. Barth, Alan D. Jagolinzer and Eddie Riedl
University of Pennsylvania - Accounting Department, Stanford University - Graduate School of Business, University of Cambridge Judge Business School and Boston University - Questrom School of Business

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71.

A Review of Tax Research

Number of pages: 138 Posted: 23 Sep 2009 Last Revised: 28 Jul 2010
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Michelle Hanlon and Shane Heitzman
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Sloan School of Management and University of Southern California - Marshall School of Business
Downloads 7,993
72.

Executive Compensation as an Agency Problem

Journal of Economic Perspectives, Vol. 17, pp. 71-92, 2003, Harvard Law and Economics Discussion Paper No. 421
Number of pages: 29 Posted: 06 Jan 2003 Last Revised: 28 Apr 2009
Accepted Paper Series
Lucian A. Bebchuk and Jesse M. Fried
Harvard Law School and Harvard Law School

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Downloads 7,937
74.

Financial Statement Analysis of Leverage and How it Informs About Profitability and Price-to-Book Ratios

Number of pages: 45 Posted: 08 Dec 2001
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Doron Nissim and Stephen H. Penman
Columbia University - Columbia Business School and Columbia Business School - Department of Accounting
Downloads 7,877
75.

Audit Committee Characteristics and the Perceived Quality of Financial Reporting: An Empirical Analysis

Number of pages: 40 Posted: 24 Jun 2003
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Andrew J. Felo, Srinivasan Krishnamurthy and Steven A. Solieri
Nova Southeastern University, North Carolina State University - Poole College of Management and University of Scranton - Kania School of Management
Downloads 7,848
76.

Conservatism in Accounting

Number of pages: 39 Posted: 20 Jan 2003
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Ross L. Watts
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Sloan School of Management
Downloads 7,780
77.

Reports of Value’s Death May Be Greatly Exaggerated

Number of pages: 38 Posted: 02 Dec 2019 Last Revised: 04 Feb 2021
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Robert D. Arnott, Campbell R. Harvey, Vitali Kalesnik and Juhani T. Linnainmaa
Research Affiliates, LLC, Duke University - Fuqua School of Business, Research Affiliates Global Advisors and Dartmouth College - Tuck School of Business
Downloads 7,600
78.

Textual Analysis in Accounting and Finance: A Survey

Number of pages: 56 Posted: 03 Oct 2014 Last Revised: 21 May 2016
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Tim Loughran and Bill McDonald
University of Notre Dame and University of Notre Dame - Mendoza College of Business - Department of Finance

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Downloads 7,591
79.

The Effects of Enterprise Risk Management on Firm Performance

Number of pages: 28 Posted: 06 Jul 2008 Last Revised: 16 Apr 2010
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Donald P. Pagach and Richard S. Warr
North Carolina State University and North Carolina State University
Downloads 7,588
80.

Normative Accounting Theories

Kabir, M. H. 2005. Normative accounting theories. Dhaka University Journal of Business Studies XXVI (No. 1): 87-123.
Number of pages: 30 Posted: 05 Aug 2005 Last Revised: 17 Jan 2016
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Humayun Kabir
Auckland University of Technology
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81.

Using Industry-Adjusted Dupont Analysis to Predict Future Profitability

Number of pages: 48 Posted: 26 Oct 2003
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Mark T. Soliman
University of Southern California - Marshall School of Business
Downloads 7,421
82.

Cash Value Added - a New Method for Measuring Financial Performance

Gothenburg University Working Paper 1996:1
Number of pages: 10 Posted: 10 Feb 1998
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Erik Ottosson and Fredrik Weissenrieder
Anelda AB and Weissenrieder & Co AB
Downloads 7,418
83.

A Risk Perception Primer: A Narrative Research Review of the Risk Perception Literature in Behavioral Accounting and Behavioral Finance

Number of pages: 109 Posted: 20 Jul 2004
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Victor Ricciardi
Washington and Lee University
Downloads 7,339
84.

Pay Without Performance: The Unfulfilled Promise of Executive Compensation

Harvard University Press, 2004
Number of pages: 18 Posted: 30 Apr 2004 Last Revised: 18 Jul 2019
Accepted Paper Series
Lucian A. Bebchuk and Jesse M. Fried
Harvard Law School and Harvard Law School
Downloads 7,290
85.

Creative Accounting: Nature, Incidence and Ethical Issues

UPF Working Paper No. 749
Number of pages: 19 Posted: 12 Jul 2004
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Oriol Amat and Catherine Gowthorpe
Universitat Pompeu Fabra - Faculty of Economic and Business Sciences and Oxford Brookes University - Business School
Downloads 7,288
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A Synthesis of Equity Valuation Techniques and the Terminal Value Calculation for the Dividend Discount Model

Number of pages: 32 Posted: 05 Nov 1997
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Stephen H. Penman
Columbia Business School - Department of Accounting
Downloads 7,179
87.

How Biases Affect Investor Behaviour

The European Financial Review, February-March 2014, pp. 7-10
Number of pages: 4 Posted: 23 Jun 2014
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H. Kent Baker and Victor Ricciardi
American University - Kogod School of Business and Washington and Lee University
Downloads 7,116
88.

Corporate Governance and Firm Valuation

Journal of Accounting and Public Policy, Vol. 25, No. 4, 2006
Number of pages: 26 Posted: 07 Jul 2005 Last Revised: 01 Apr 2014
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Lawrence D. Brown and Marcus L. Caylor
Temple University - Department of Accounting and Kennesaw State University
Downloads 7,113
89.

The Case for Global Accounting Standards: Arguments and Evidence

Number of pages: 17 Posted: 22 Jan 2013
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Ann Tarca
University of Western Australia
Downloads 7,012
90.

Understanding Earnings Quality: A Review of the Proxies, Their Determinants and Their Consequences

Number of pages: 164 Posted: 10 Oct 2009 Last Revised: 25 Nov 2011
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Patricia Dechow, Weili Ge and Catherine M. Schrand
USC Marshall School of Business, University of Washington - Michael G. Foster School of Business and University of Pennsylvania - Accounting Department
Downloads 6,978
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Audit Committee Quality, Auditor Independence, and Internal Control Weaknesses

Number of pages: 39 Posted: 22 Aug 2006
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Yan Zhang, Jian Zhou and Nan Zhou
State University of New York at Binghamton - School of Management, University of Hawaii at Manoa and University of Cincinnati - Lindner College of Business

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Downloads 6,977
92.

Contracting Theory and Accounting

Number of pages: 135 Posted: 17 Jan 2001
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Richard A. Lambert
University of Pennsylvania - Accounting Department

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93.

The Global Financial Crisis and the Efficient Market Hypothesis: What Have We Learned?

Journal of Applied Corporate Finance, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 27 Posted: 20 Nov 2009 Last Revised: 11 Dec 2009
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Ray Ball
University of Chicago - Booth School of Business

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94.

Accounting in and for the Subprime Crisis

Number of pages: 57 Posted: 02 Apr 2008
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Stephen G. Ryan
New York University (NYU) - Leonard N. Stern School of Business

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95.

Prospective Analysis: Guidelines for Forecasting Financial Statements

INVESTMENT MANAGEMENT: A MODERN GUIDE TO SECURITY ANALYSIS AND STOCK SELECTION, Ramanna Vishwanath, Chandrasekhar Krishnamurti, eds., 2009
Number of pages: 78 Posted: 31 Oct 2007 Last Revised: 01 Apr 2009
Accepted Paper Series
Ignacio Velez-Pareja and Joseph Tham
Grupo Consultor CAV Capital Advisory & Valuation and Educational Independent Consultant
Downloads 6,922
96.

Executive Equity Compensation and Incentives: A Survey

Number of pages: 62 Posted: 22 Jul 2001
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Wayne R. Guay, John E. Core and David F. Larcker
University of Pennsylvania - Accounting Department, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Sloan School of Management and Stanford University - Graduate School of Business

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Downloads 6,913
97.

Impact of Globalization on International Accounting Harmonization

Number of pages: 8 Posted: 22 Jan 2007
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Paul Diaconu
Bucharest Academy of Economic Studies
Downloads 6,879
98.

The Relevance of the Value Relevance Literature for Financial Accounting Standard Setting

Number of pages: 80 Posted: 20 Oct 2000
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Robert W. Holthausen and Ross L. Watts
University of Pennsylvania - Accounting Department and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Sloan School of Management

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Downloads 6,855
99.

Earnings Management: A Perspective

Number of pages: 16 Posted: 11 May 2001
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Messod D. Beneish
Indiana University - Kelley School of Business - Department of Accounting
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100.

Do the Rim (Residual Income Model), Eva(R) and DCF (Discounted Cash Flow) Really Match?

Working Paper No. 25
Number of pages: 28 Posted: 17 Mar 2003
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Ignacio Velez-Pareja and Joseph Tham
Grupo Consultor CAV Capital Advisory & Valuation and Educational Independent Consultant
Downloads 6,774