Abraham Briloff is well known for more than four decades of insightful analysis and criticism of the accounting practices of various companies. His critiques, in the form of articles published in Barron's, consist of detailed financial analyses of the questionable accounting practices of the...

We examine one- to three-year performance of common stocks following 5596 stock split and 76 reverse split announcements made during the period 1976 to 1991. For stock splits, on average, the one- and three-year buy-and- hold abnormal after the announcement month are 7.05% and 11.87%,...