Prior literature documents the usefulness of the DuPont disaggregation for predicting firms future profitability …. However, there is a lack of research examining how earnings quality affects forecasts of profitability. This paper explores … whether different earnings quality factors moderate the accuracy of profitability forecasts. This study contributes to the …

stocks. While long-short (zero initial outlay) portfolios based on this signal usually make a profit on average, it is rarely …

financial structure that has the purpose of maximizing business performance in the sense of maximizing profitability and return … profitability (measured by rates of return on equity). This paper seeks to answer the question of cause and effect in the context of … financial structure and profitability of the company: whether a certain financial structure (higher or lower indebtedness …