Badertscher, Brad A.; Collins, Daniel W.; Lys, Thomas Z. - In: Journal of Accounting and Economics 53 (2012) 1, pp. 330-352
Using a sample of restatement firms and a meet-or-beat model to classify firms as making discretionary accounting choices for opportunistic meet-or-beat (OP-MB) reasons, we show that originally reported earnings and accrual components are less predictive of future cash flows relative to the...