In this paper, we apply a modified one-stage version of the Mishkin (1983) test to companies in the UK stock market in order to investigate the presence or otherwise of the accruals anomaly in UK firms' annual returns. For the period of 1990-2007, we report that there is little evidence of a...

This study examines the information content of alternative approaches to presenting cash flow from operations (CFO) data. The predictive ability of derived historical data reflecting the direct method compared with archived indirect method-based data, and, cash receipts and payments data in...

We examine the joint predictability of return and cash flow within a present value framework, by imposing the implications from a long-run risk model incorporating both time varying volatility and volatility uncertainty. We provide new evidence that the expected return variation and the variance...