This paper presents an instructional case based on the 2001 annual report of the Campbell Soup Company (CPB). During that year, CPB's shareowners' equity went from a surplus of USD137 million to a deficit of USD247 million. The analysis will allow students to determine that the change resulted...

Purpose – To examine whether both the value relevance of accounting information, and the quality of earnings affect financial analysts' revisions of forecast annual earnings per share soon after an earnings release. Design/methodology/approach – For firms whose accounting earnings provide...

Purpose – This paper aims to examine the impact of managerial equity ownership on return on assets as a measure of profitability and two financial statement-based agency cost measures, i.e. asset utilization and an expense ratio, which proxy for management's efficiency in use of assets and...

Purpose – This paper aims to examine the impact of managerial equity ownership on return on assets as a measure of profitability and two financial statement‐based agency cost measures, i.e. asset utilization and an expense ratio, which proxy for management's efficiency in use of assets and...