This report updates and expands earlier studies to look at the profitability of $349.7 billion of buybacks executed from 2000 through early 2010 by a sample of 275 corporations. The sample companies, drawn mainly from the technology sector, enjoy total equity market value today of $945.6...

We examine firms' financial reporting practices during stub periods that are induced by fiscal year changes and not covered by regular quarters. We find that firms report much lower income for the missing months than for adjacent quarters, mainly by recording higher operating expenses. We also...

This paper ranks individual accounting researchers based on their research productivity in the most recent 6, 12, and 20 years. We extend prior individual faculty rankings by providing separate individual faculty research rankings for each topical area commonly published in accounting journals...

We use earnings forecasts from a cross-sectional model to proxy for cash flow expectations and estimate the implied cost of capital (ICC) for a large sample of firms over 1968-2008. The earnings forecasts generated by the cross-sectional model are superior to analysts' forecasts in terms of...

Recent literature suggests that other information included with management earnings forecasts may not be useful to the market as a direct disclosure. I use regression analysis to investigate whether this type of disclosure can help analysts to formulate more accurate forecasts of earnings....

As an alternative way to shed light on the debate over whether the modified Dechow and Dichev (2002) AQ measure is a priced risk factor, we examine the effect of seasonality on the pricing of AQ. We find that (1) high AQ stocks outperform low AQ stocks only in January; (2) during the rest of the...

We investigate the joint hypothesis that a) tax expense contains information about core profitability that is incremental to reported earnings and b) that information is reflected in stock prices with a delay. We find that seasonally-differenced quarterly tax expense, our proxy for tax expense...

Our study investigates, using both theoretical and archival empirical methods, the role of CEO career concerns as a determinant of earnings management behavior. The significance of earnings management in market economies is well documented. Our investigations are motivated by the disconnect...