Financial analysis, future earnings and cash flows, and the prediction of stock returns: Evidence for the UK

Accounting and Business Research

Volumn 29, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 281-298

  Charitou, Andreas ^a   Panagiotides, George ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CYPRUS   (Cyprus)

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EID: 0346092794     PISSN: 00014788     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00014788.1999.9729589     Document Type: Article

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