A firm's ownership structure influences both its liquidity and value. This paper introduces a new measure of latent investment horizon, a weighted average investment horizon computed from the firm's ownership structure and the average investment horizon of various investor categories. We find...

Since the 1970s, the decision-usefulness has taken center stage and our attention has been concentrated on valuation of assets and liabilities instead of income measurement. The concept of income, once considered the gravitational center of accounting has lost its primacy and become a byproduct...

Criticizing the IASB's Conceptual Framework project based on the balance sheet approach, Barker and Penman (2016) have been advocating a mixed balance sheet and income statement approach. Although they do not seem to have noticed, their approach is quite similar to that of the Japanese...