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Book Accounting and the Investment Opportunity Set

Download or read book Accounting and the Investment Opportunity Set written by Ahmed Riahi-Belkaoui and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2000-05-30 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A firm's value consists of its assets-in-place and growth opportunities: its investment opportunity set. IOS plays a major role in determining a firm's corporate and accounting strategies, and how the marketplace reacts to them. Riahi-Belkaoui shows how IOS can be examined, measured, and used as one way to understand the various accounting and nonaccounting strategies espoused by management. His book fills a gap in the literature on this timely and provocative topic, and provides useful knowledge for upper management, academics, and graduate-level students. The importance of the IOS concept is beginning to be acknowledged in the literature of empirical accounting, finance, and management. There, the investment opportunity set is introduced as an explanatory or moderating variable of the relationship between accounting and economic phenomena and various predictor variables. Riahi-Belkaoui explicates a concept of growth opportunities or IOS (Chapter 1) and provides a general model for its measurement (Chapter 2). He shows its role in a general valuation model based on dividend yield and price earnings ratio (Chapter 3), in the relationship between profitability and multinationality (Chapter 4), in the determination of capital structure (Chapter 5), in a general model of international production (Chapter 6), in a general model of corporate disclosure (Chapter 7), in the relationship between systematic risk and multinationality (Chapter 8), in a model of reputation building (Chapter 9), and earnings management (Chapter 10). He goes on to discuss its role in explaining the relative market value compared to the accounting value of a multinational firm in Chapter 11, and in differentiating between the usefulness of accrual and cash flow based on valuation models in Chapter 12.

Book Investment Opportunity Set Influence on Goodwill Amortization

Download or read book Investment Opportunity Set Influence on Goodwill Amortization written by Michael E. Bradbury and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Using an institutional setting where GAAP is relatively unconstrained, we examine whether managers use their goodwill accounting discretion to reflect firms' growth options that are not otherwise captured in reported identifiable assets. We employ a continuous dependent variable to find that accounting discretion is exercised through estimates of goodwill's economic life (amortization period) in a manner that reflects the firms' underlying growth options. These results are consistent with managers using accounting techniques to reflect firms' investment opportunity sets (IOS). We find that the goodwill accounting decision has a stronger association with IOS variables than with traditionally applied contracting variables. Also, the IOS variables make a greater marginal contribution to the explanatory power of models of goodwill amortization periods than do traditional contracting or opportunism variables.

Book Investment Opportunity Sets  Accounting Based Regulatory Contracts  and Accounting Discretion

Download or read book Investment Opportunity Sets Accounting Based Regulatory Contracts and Accounting Discretion written by Malcolm McLelland and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This paper examines the relationship between accounting discretion and investment opportunity sets (IOSs) of regulated banks in the presence of accounting-based regulatory contracts. Specifically, the proposition that accounting discretion allows a bank to avoid constraints on its IOS resulting from risk-based regulatory capital requirements is examined. The conditions under which accounting discretion can influence a bank's IOS are explored and results suggest that, in general, accounting discretion has no effect on a bank's IOS, or on compliance with regulatory capital requirements, independent of its effect on dividends or other financing transactions.

Book Principles of Equity Valuation

Download or read book Principles of Equity Valuation written by Ian Davidson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book provides a rigorous introduction to corporate finance and the valuation of equity. The first half of the book covers much of the received theory in these areas such as the relationship between the risk of an equity security and the return one can expect from it, the effects of leverage (that is, the borrowing policies of the firm) on the return one can expect from the firm’s shares and the role that dividends, operating cash flows and accounting earnings play in the valuation of equity. The second half of the book is more advanced and deals with the important role that "real options" (that is, as yet unexploited investment opportunities) play in the valuation of equity.

Book Corporate Capital Structures in the United States

Download or read book Corporate Capital Structures in the United States written by Benjamin M. Friedman and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2009-05-15 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The research reported in this volume represents the second stage of a wide-ranging National Bureau of Economic Research effort to investigate "The Changing Role of Debt and Equity in Financing U.S. Capital Formation." The first group of studies sponsored under this project, which have been published individually and summarized in a 1982 volume bearing the same title (Friedman 1982), addressed several key issues relevant to corporate sector behavior along with such other aspects of the evolving financial underpinnings of U.S. capital formation as household saving incentives, international capital flows, and government debt management. In the project's second series of studies, presented at the National Bureau of Economic Research conference in January 1983 and published here for the first time along with commentaries from that conference, the central focus is the financial side of capital formation undertaken by the U.S. corporate business sector. At the same time, because corporations' securities must be held, a parallel focus is on the behavior of the markets that price these claims.

Book Principles of Accounting Volume 1   Financial Accounting

Download or read book Principles of Accounting Volume 1 Financial Accounting written by Mitchell Franklin and published by . This book was released on 2019-04-11 with total page 1056 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The text and images in this book are in grayscale. A hardback color version is available. Search for ISBN 9781680922929. Principles of Accounting is designed to meet the scope and sequence requirements of a two-semester accounting course that covers the fundamentals of financial and managerial accounting. This book is specifically designed to appeal to both accounting and non-accounting majors, exposing students to the core concepts of accounting in familiar ways to build a strong foundation that can be applied across business fields. Each chapter opens with a relatable real-life scenario for today's college student. Thoughtfully designed examples are presented throughout each chapter, allowing students to build on emerging accounting knowledge. Concepts are further reinforced through applicable connections to more detailed business processes. Students are immersed in the "why" as well as the "how" aspects of accounting in order to reinforce concepts and promote comprehension over rote memorization.

Book The Use of Investment Opportunity Set and Policy Variables as Surrogates for Analysts  Earnings Growth Expectations

Download or read book The Use of Investment Opportunity Set and Policy Variables as Surrogates for Analysts Earnings Growth Expectations written by Mark A. Trombley and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This paper examines the association between financial statement variables and expected earnings growth. The main objective of the paper is to evaluate the usefulness of accounting numbers as surrogates or proxies for analysts' expectations of earnings growth. Results indicate that virtually all of the variables selected for this study exhibit highly significant association with analysts' long-term growth expectations. Cross-sectional regression tests suggest that V/A the market-to-book value of assets may be the best available proxy for expected growth. This variable seemed to be superior to Ramp;D intensity size and alternative market-to book measures. Even a constructed proxy incorporating V/A and additional measures did not seem to produce a consistent improvement over V/A alone.

Book Economics for Investment Decision Makers

Download or read book Economics for Investment Decision Makers written by Christopher D. Piros and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2013-03-05 with total page 16 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The economics background investors need to interpret global economic news distilled to the essential elements: A tool of choice for investment decision-makers. Written by a distinguished academics and practitioners selected and guided by CFA Institute, the world’s largest association of finance professionals, Economics for Investment Decision Makers is unique in presenting microeconomics and macroeconomics with relevance to investors and investment analysts constantly in mind. The selection of fundamental topics is comprehensive, while coverage of topics such as international trade, foreign exchange markets, and currency exchange rate forecasting reflects global perspectives of pressing investor importance. Concise, plain-English introduction useful to investors and investment analysts Relevant to security analysis, industry analysis, country analysis, portfolio management, and capital market strategy Understand economic news and what it means All concepts defined and simply explained, no prior background in economics assumed Abundant examples and illustrations Global markets perspective

Book Alternative Investments  A Primer for Investment Professionals

Download or read book Alternative Investments A Primer for Investment Professionals written by Donald R. Chambers and published by CFA Institute Research Foundation. This book was released on 2018 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alternative Investments: A Primer for Investment Professionals provides an overview of alternative investments for institutional asset allocators and other overseers of portfolios containing both traditional and alternative assets. It is designed for those with substantial experience regarding traditional investments in stocks and bonds but limited familiarity regarding alternative assets, alternative strategies, and alternative portfolio management. The primer categorizes alternative assets into four groups: hedge funds, real assets, private equity, and structured products/derivatives. Real assets include vacant land, farmland, timber, infrastructure, intellectual property, commodities, and private real estate. For each group, the primer provides essential information about the characteristics, challenges, and purposes of these institutional-quality alternative assets in the context of a well-diversified institutional portfolio. Other topics addressed by this primer include tail risk, due diligence of the investment process and operations, measurement and management of risks and returns, setting return expectations, and portfolio construction. The primer concludes with a chapter on the case for investing in alternatives.

Book Principles of Accounting Volume 2   Managerial Accounting

Download or read book Principles of Accounting Volume 2 Managerial Accounting written by Mitchell Franklin and published by . This book was released on 2019-02-14 with total page 746 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A less-expensive grayscale paperback version is available. Search for ISBN 9781680922936. Principles of Accounting is designed to meet the scope and sequence requirements of a two-semester accounting course that covers the fundamentals of financial and managerial accounting. This book is specifically designed to appeal to both accounting and non-accounting majors, exposing students to the core concepts of accounting in familiar ways to build a strong foundation that can be applied across business fields. Each chapter opens with a relatable real-life scenario for today's college student. Thoughtfully designed examples are presented throughout each chapter, allowing students to build on emerging accounting knowledge. Concepts are further reinforced through applicable connections to more detailed business processes. Students are immersed in the "why" as well as the "how" aspects of accounting in order to reinforce concepts and promote comprehension over rote memorization.

Book Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Accounting  Management  and Economics  ICAME 2023

Download or read book Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Accounting Management and Economics ICAME 2023 written by Arianto Patunru and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2024 with total page 1094 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Zusammenfassung: This is an open access book. The International Conference on Accounting, Management, and Economics (ICAME) is an annual agenda organized by the Faculty of Economics and Business, Hasanuddin University. In 2023, we would like to introduce to you the 8th ICAME with the current theme entitled "Establishing Inclusive Economy and Business". SUB THEME Development Economics Public Economics Financial Accounting Management Accounting Finance and Investment Sustainability Business Corporate Governance Human Capital Islamic Economics Other Related; Accounting, Management, Economics Issues We hope that our conference can add discussions and information from various research towards the discourse of new economic policy in the post-pandemic era. This activity also became an important agenda in publishing scientific papers by academics and became a positive contribution to mapping Indonesia's future development. Therefore, we would like to invite academics, practitioners, researchers to contribute to the development of economic and business management research through participating in the 8th of ICAME. Thank you for your participation and we look forward to meeting you at the conference

Book Capital Structure

Download or read book Capital Structure written by Ahmed Riahi-Belkaoui and published by Praeger. This book was released on 1999-02-28 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This text uses theoretical and contingency approaches to examine the question of whether capital structure can be determined. Using a bond rating model it looks at the evaluation of capital structure, the resolution of issues pertaining to equity and liabilities, and their contribution to reports

Book The Investment Opportunity Set and Acquired Goodwill

Download or read book The Investment Opportunity Set and Acquired Goodwill written by Jilnaught Wong and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This paper examines how managers allocate the cost of firms' investments in subsidiaries between net tangible assets and acquired goodwill. We find a negative relation between acquired goodwill and leverage, and this could be interpreted as the result of managers of acquiring firms opportunistically allocating a lower portion of the acquisition price to acquired goodwill. However, this analysis, like much of the research on accounting choice, suffers from an omitted variables problem. We present evidence that the observed negative relation between acquired goodwill and leverage is likely to stem from each variable's relation to the acquiring firm's investment opportunity set. Further, we find that acquired goodwill is not related to the existence of debt covenants. Together, these results suggest an endogenous relation between the firm's asset structure, its financing policy, and acquired goodwill.

Book The Economics of Strategic Planning

Download or read book The Economics of Strategic Planning written by Joel Dean and published by Free Press. This book was released on 1986 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Financial Management and Investment Decisions

Download or read book Financial Management and Investment Decisions written by Jagmohan Negi and published by Laxmi Publications. This book was released on 2012-05 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Millionaire Teacher

Download or read book Millionaire Teacher written by Andrew Hallam and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2016-11-28 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Adopt the investment strategy that turned a school teacher into a millionaire Millionaire Teacher shows you how to achieve financial independence through smart investing — without being a financial wizard. Author Andrew Hallam was a high school English teacher. He became a debt-free millionaire by following a few simple rules. In this book, he teaches you the financial fundamentals you need to follow in his tracks. You can spend just an hour per year on your investments, never think about the stock market's direction — and still beat most professional investors. It's not about get-rich-quick schemes or trendy investment products peddled by an ever-widening, self-serving industry; it's about your money and your future. This new second edition features updated discussion on passive investing, studies on dollar cost averaging versus lump sum investing, and a detailed segment on RoboAdvisors for Americans, Canadians, Australians, Singaporeans and British investors. Financial literacy is rarely taught in schools. Were you shortchanged by your education system? This book is your solution, teaching you the ABCs of finance to help you build wealth. Gain the financial literacy to make smart investment decisions Learn why you should invest in index funds Find out how to find the right kind of financial advisor Avoid scams and flash-in-the-pan trends Millionaire Teacher shows how to build a strong financial future today.