This study investigates whether glamour companies have higher effective tax rates than value companies. Glamour companies are defined using a Lakonishok et al. (1994) definition as companies that have a high price-to-earnings ratio and high sales growth. Conversely, value companies have a low...

We investigate the ability of a tax-based fundamental - the ratio of tax-to-book income - to predict earnings growth and stock returns and to explain the earnings-price ratio. This tax fundamental reflects both temporary and permanent book-tax differences as well as tax accruals, such as changes...

SFAS 109, Accounting for income taxes, was criticized for allowing firms to set arbitrarily high valuation allowances against deferred tax assets at adoption as quot;hidden reservesquot; that firms could use in future periods to manage earnings. Consistent with these claims, bank managers make...

This paper analyzes the links between corporate tax avoidance and the growth of high-powered incentives for managers. We develop a simple model that highlights the role of feedback effects between tax sheltering and managerial diversion in determining how high-powered incentives influence tax...

In the context of the statutory tax rate reductions enacted in the Tax Reform Act of 1986, this paper investigates the degree to which capital market participants anticipate and correctly interpret temporary income effects of tax-motivated income shifting. We find evidence consistent with...

This study examines whether managerial forecasts of annual effective tax rates, disclosed in interim financial statements, are useful in predicting future quarterly earnings, are incorporated in financial analysts' forecasts of quarterly earnings, or are impounded in stock prices. The integral...

Note: The following is a description of the paper and is not the actual abstract.Many studies have investigated share price behavior associated with firms' voluntary adoptions of the last-in, first-out inventory method, and a review of the literature provides a rich set of mixed and conflicting...

I examine whether and under what circumstances changes in net income caused by changes in effective tax rates (ETRs) (the tax change component) persist and whether the tax change component aids in forecasting future earnings incremental to aggregate earnings excluding the tax change. I decompose...

Recent research reports that book-tax differences are not only informative about future earnings but are also associated with future stock returns. The combination of these results suggests the possibility that investors misprice securities by not fully incorporating tax-based information into...

We use event study techniques to investigate market participants' ex ante perceptions regarding the benefits and burdens of Interpretation Nos. 46 and 46R, Consolidation of Variable Interest Entities, an Interpretation of ARB No. 51 (FIN 46/R). The evidence suggests investors believed the costs...