Accrued earnings and growth: Implications for future profitability and market mispricing

Accounting Review

Volumn 78, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 353-371

  Fairfield, Patricia M ^a   Whisenant, J Scott ^b   Yohn, Teri Lombardi ^a  

^a GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Accrued earnings; Earnings quality; Financial statement analysis; Growth; Market mispricing

Indexed keywords

EID: 0037289089     PISSN: 00014826     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2308/accr.2003.78.1.353     Document Type: Review

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