This study explores insider trading as a function of differences between managers' and the market's assessment of company earning components - specifically operating cash flows and accruals. It extends prior research by more comprehensively studying earnings components. It also builds a...

Purpose – The purpose of this study is to assess the pricing effects of financial reporting decision usefulness in terms of its constituent elements of relevance and reliability. Although it has long been intuitively appealing to believe in the decision usefulness of more relevant and reliable...

Purpose – The purpose of this study is to assess the pricing effects of financial reporting decision usefulness in terms of its constituent elements of relevance and reliability. Although it has long been intuitively appealing to believe in the decision usefulness of more relevant and reliable...

At its inception, Financial Management (FM) had the difficult mission of serving the needs of all members of the Financial Management Association (FMA), both academic and practitioner. That mission has now changed. FM's revised mission is to focus solely on the publication of original scholarly...

This research studies the association between multinational firm complexity and analyst following. We first present a model of a firm?s operational complexity in terms of its lines of business and geographic operating regions, considered separately, jointly, and interactively, including a...

At its inception, Financial Management (FM) had the difficult mission of serving the needs of all members of the Financial Management Association (FMA), both academic and practitioner. That mission has now changed. FM's revised mission is to focus solely on the publication of original scholarly...