Price Earnings- and Market Book-ratios presume a systematic link between financial statement data and company value. We analyze this relationship in a steady state model with overlapping capacity investments where company value is inferred from a constant growth residual income model. We...

Unbiased accounting is supposed to provide perfect economic information to decision makers. We identify three notions of unbiased accounting in the literature, promoting return-, cost-, or value-disclosure as guiding principle and evaluate them based on the criterion of informational...

Forward price-to-earnings ratios (PE ratios) play a central role in financial analysis and valuation. They are used to value comparable firms or to inform about mispriced stocks. We show that past investment growth and conservative accounting hinder a straightforward interpretation of the PE...