Is comprehensive income superior to net income as a measure of firm performance?

Journal of Accounting and Economics

Volumn 26, Issue 1-3, 1999, Pages 43-67

  Dhaliwal, Dan ^a   Subramanyam, K R ^b   Trezevant, Robert ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Capital markets; Comprehensive income; M41; SFAS 130; Summary measures of performance

Indexed keywords

EID: 0003202114     PISSN: 01654101     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0165-4101(98)00033-0     Document Type: Article

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