Using asset turnover and profit margin to forecast changes in profitability

Review of Accounting Studies

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 371-385

  Fairfield, Patricia M ^a   Yohn, Teri Lombardi ^a,b  

^a GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Disaggregation; Financial statement analysis; Return on assets

Indexed keywords

EID: 0000983218     PISSN: 13806653     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1012430513430     Document Type: Article

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