Download or read book The Information Content of Earnings and Cash Flows written by Roger Mills and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 70 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Life Cycle Stage Effects on the Incremental Information Content of Earnings and Cash Flows written by Ervin L. Black and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Previous studies cross-sectionally pooled heterogeneous firms to examine the information content of earnings and cash flow measures. This study extends prior research; and is the first to examine the corporate life-cycle effects on the informativeness of earnings (NI), operating cash flows (CFO), financing cash flows (CFF), and investing cash flows (CFI). The life-cycle concept is an appealing economic context which allows for a relatively more homogenous study of these information content relationships. It is a concept used frequently in academic research and the financial press, because it captures a set of financial characteristics and strategies for firms in a particular life-cycle stage. This study examines both the informativeness of earnings and cash flow measures in each of four life-cycle stages: Start- up, Growth, Mature, and Decline. Hypotheses are developed predicting that earnings and operating cash flows contain incremental information content in life-cycle stages when a firm's assets in place are a major component of firm value. Financing cash flows and investing cash flows are expected to be incrementally informative during stages characterized by growth or uncertainty. The results are consistent with the hypothesis that neither NI, nor CFO are incrementally informative in the start-up stage, characterized by few assets in place. When there are relatively more assets in place in the growth, mature, and decline stages; however, the results support the hypothesis that NI and CFO contain incremental information. Hypotheses regarding CFF and CFI are generally supported. Results support the incremental informativeness of CFF in the growth, mature, and decline stages; but not in the start-up stage. CFI is informative in all life-cycle stages. These results provide support for the usefulness of the cash flow statement required by FAS 95.

Download or read book Informativeness and Predictability of Earnings and Cash Flows written by Zhemin Wang and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Effect of Contextual Factors on the Information Content of Cash Flows in Explaining Stock Prices the Case of Amman Stock Exchange written by Ali M. Al-Attar and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This article aims to determine which is better earnings or cash flows as performance measure. We follow the more direct approach used in several recent U.S. studies, in which earnings and cash flows are considered as competing variables. Specifically, our methodology is a development of the study of Dechow (1994). We provide a replication of her main analysis, and then extend this to deal with the effect of earnings permanence, earnings growth and firm size on the value relevance of cash flow and earnings. Our study provides an evidence on the relevance of cash flow figures for investors in their investment decision in an emerging stock market. The study covers the case of Amman Stock Exchange (ASE) and employs data on a sample of industrial firms. The time horizon of this study includes the period of 1993-2001. The results of the current study indicate that earnings and cash flows have information content regarding the prediction of future cash flows. Cash flows and earnings separately have a significant association with stock return. The results show that there is no significant difference between the ability of earnings and cash flows in explaining the variation in stock return. Furthermore, as the earnings growth is low and the firm's size is small, the operating cash flow considered better than earnings as performance measure.

Download or read book The Incremental Information Content of Earnings written by Ashiq Ali and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Valuation of Earnings and Cash Flows and Their Components written by Andreas A. Charitou and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Cash Flow Reporting RLE Accounting written by Thomas A. Lee and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-02-05 with total page 579 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection explores Kuhn’s 1970 perception of a scientific revolution in the form of a cyclical sequence of anomaly recognition; insecurity, alternative ideas, schools of thought and dominating practices. Cash flow reporting has become a dominant accounting practice which emerged from a developmental process of Kuhnian form. The text is constructed around the various stages identified by Kuhn and selected readings are categorised accordingly.

Download or read book An Empirical Examination of the Information Content of Ohlson and Aier s Modified Cash Flows written by Samuel Tung and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ohlson and Aier (2009) propose a model of modified cash accounting (MCA) for analyzing and evaluating a firm's cash flows. They suggest that MCA cash earnings provide a better measure of earnings than GAAP's measure, and that the MCA bottom line is more informative because it identifies earnings due to operations on a cash- and approximate cash-equivalent basis. However, there is no empirical test for the information content of MCA cash earnings proposed by Ohlson and Aier (2009). This study empirically examines the incremental information content of MCA cash earnings compared with cash flow from operations (CFO) and GAAP earnings per share (EPS) using stock returns as the benchmark for firms' performance during the 2001-2011 period. We find that MCA cash earnings provide incremental information content beyond CFO and EPS.

Download or read book A Further Examination of the Incremental Information Content of Cash flow Announcements written by John Douglas Hanna and published by Ann Arbor, Mich. : University Microfilms International. This book was released on 1991 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Earnings Cashflows and Returns written by Peta Stevenson-Clarke and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The relation between stock returns, earnings and cashflows is of importance because it directly addresses the issue of whether accounting data provide value relevant information. The empirical evidence to date, however, has documented low explanatory power for earnings and inconclusive incremental information content for cashflows. This research re-evaluates the incremental information content debate using Australian data. Our research is motivated by: recent innovations in research design, including the specification of nonlinear functional relations between accounting variables and prices, and the fact that differences in firm size characteristics may influence the relative information content of the accounting variables. We observe that: (i) a nonlinear functional relation provides greater explanatory power for both earnings and cash flows; (ii) the results are consistent with more transitory earnings components for smaller firms; and (iii) contrary to received theory, cashflows add greater incremental explanatory power for large firms.

Download or read book The Incremental Information Content of Accruals and Cash Flows After Controlling for Earnings written by Gordon Peter Wilson and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Information Asymmetries and the Value relevance of Cash Flow and Accounting Figures written by Marc Steffen Rapp and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While some of the modern performance measures used in managerial accounting rely on cash flow based figures others try to take advantage of the information content of accounting figures. However, whether the additional information content in the accrual components of earnings improves the internal performance measurement is an open empirical question. To shed light on this question, I examine the correlation between operating cash flows and earnings with firm's total shareholder returns. Using fixed firm effects regression methods for a large sample of German listed firms covering some 5,000 firm years, the analysis shows that generally operating cash flow and earnings are both positively correlated with total shareholder return. However, with increasing information asymmetry earnings become less correlated with the firm's stock market performance and operating cash flows dominate earnings in explaining total shareholder return (and vice versa). These results suggest that, the information content of accounting figures is only relevant in settings characterized by low information asymmetries and, thus, there is no one-size-fits-all performance measure for managerial accounting purposes. -- Accounting figures ; performance measures ; total shareholder return ; managerial accounting

Download or read book The Information Content of Cash flow Measures in Dividend Policy written by Robert P. Crum and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 62 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Incremental Information Content of Earnings Funds Flow and Cash Flow written by Ashiq Ali and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This paper investigates the incremental information content of three accounting performance measures for U.K. firms: earnings, funds flow and cash flow. Based on tests of association using the most general specifications suggested by the recent literature incorporating time-varying parameters and a non-linearity in response coefficients, a pattern of consistent results emerges. All three performance measures have explanatory power for returns individually and the response coefficients on their unexpected components are positive. The results further show that earnings, funds flow and cash flow all have incremental information content.However, the response coefficients on the unexpected components are consistently positive across years only for earnings and funds flow.

Download or read book Life cycle Stage Effects on the Information Content of Earnings and Cash Flows written by Ervin L. Black and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Beyond Earnings written by David A. Holland and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2017-12-11 with total page 421 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beyond Earnings is targeted at investors, financial professionals, and students who want to improve their ability to analyze financial statements, forecast cash flows, and ultimately value a company. The authors demonstrate that reported earnings are easily gamed by accounting shenanigans and reveal how commonly used profitability measures such as return on equity can be misleading. Because earnings and P/E ratios are too unreliable for valuation, this book takes you beyond earnings and shows you how to apply the HOLT CFROI and Economic Profit framework in a step-by-step manner. A better measure of profitability results in improved capital allocation decisions and fundamental valuations. This ground-breaking book offers the first practical in-depth discussion of how profitability and growth fade, and shows how to put this information to work right away. The authors introduce their trailblazing Fundamental Pricing Model which includes fade as an adjustable value driver and can be used to value the impact of business model disruption. As the authors explain, the key to superior stock picking is understanding the expectations embedded in a stock’s price and having a clear view of whether the company can beat those expectations. The HOLT framework has been rigorously field tested for over 40 years by global investment professionals to help them make better stock picks and by corporate managers to understand the expectations embedded in their stock price. Beyond Earnings is an indispensable guide for investors who want to improve their odds of outperforming the competition.

Download or read book Financial Statement Analysis written by Ray Ball and published by McGraw-Hill Companies. This book was released on 1994 with total page 788 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Textbook