This paper evaluates the prevalent view that accounting information competes with, but also disciplines, information from other sources by examining the inferential value to investors of accounting versus non-accounting information. Inferential value is defined as the ability of the capital...

Extant theories in sociology, criminal justice, economics, and even political science posit the existence of periodicity in human affairs similar to a pendulum which swings from one extreme to the other. We examine in this study whether such a phenomenon exists in financial reporting, with...

This paper examines the cross-sectional variability in the market valuation of R&D expenditures in the pre-packaged computer software industry. Consistent with some prior research, this paper argues that R&D spending is valued heterogeneously by the stock market, and derives hypotheses regarding...