Do stock prices fully reflect information in accruals and cash flows about future earnings?

Accounting Review

Volumn 71, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 289-315

  Sloan, Richard G ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

Accruals; Cash flows; Earnings; Market efficiency

Indexed keywords

EID: 0030305172     PISSN: 00014826     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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