Valuing loss firms

Accounting Review

Volumn 80, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 847-870

  Joos, Peter ^a   Plesko, George A ^b  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

Author keywords

Accruals; Cash flows; Earnings; Losses; Persistence; R D; Valuation

Indexed keywords

EID: 23244434167     PISSN: 00014826     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2308/accr.2005.80.3.847     Document Type: Article

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