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In this study we verify if payment of dividends increases the earnings informativeness of firms listed on the São Paulo Stock Exchange (BOVESPA). The study is based on the paper of Francis, Schipper and Vincent (2005), and adds an interaction variable between earnings and dividends in order to...
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We use Benford's Law to provide evidence that German firms round up both their net income and earnings per share. We use the introduction of the euro to show that round earnings numbers are likely the result of earnings management. The incentive to round up comes from stakeholders' left-digit...
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This paper investigates the determinants of firms' decisions to disclose ‘pro forma' earnings, voluntarily performance metrics, in a largely unregulated setting, the German capital market. For a sample of earnings releases published by large German firms, we address the role of informative and...
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The paper deals with the phenomenon of earnings discontinuity around zero level in the UK, as the common law representative, Germany, as the civil law representative, and the Czech Republic, as the civil law representative where earnings management research has not yet been thoroughly realized....
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Previous studies show that, in common-law countries, the explanatory power of stock returns is higher using cash flows than earnings and accruals, while the opposite is true in code-law countries. Moreover, the literature has shown the existence of a country-specific effect motivated by...
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I implement the accounting-based risk measurement approach in equity valuation proposed by Nekrasov and Shroff (2009 … this risk measurement approach produce a significantly smaller valuation inaccuracy relative to the market-based approach … intrinsic value estimate based on the accounting approach. Additionally, the estimated risk can be transformed to obtain …
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Der vorliegende Beitrag untersucht, ob der Mehrheitsaktionär einer Gesellschaft im Vorfeld eines Zwangsausschlusses von Minderheitsaktionären (sog. Squeeze-Out) versucht, die Kapitalmarkterwartungen negativ zu beeinflussen. Ein solches 'manipulatives' Verhalten wird häufig in der juristischen...
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Unternehmenskrisen, „überraschende“ zumal, standen am Anfang der gesetzlichen Normierung der Abschlußprüfung in Deutschland. Es entspricht daher einem legitimen Anliegen von Öffentlichkeit und Fachwelt, die herrschende Maßstäblichkeit der Qualität von Abschlußprüfungen und die...
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