The effect of earnings permanence, growth and firm size on the usefulness of cash flows and earnings in explaining security returns: Empirical evidence for the UK

Journal of Business Finance and Accounting

Volumn 28, Issue 5-6, 2001, Pages 563-594

  Charitou, Andreas ^a   Clubb, Colin ^b   Andreou, Andreas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CYPRUS   (Cyprus)

^b IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 3142700048     PISSN: 0306686X     EISSN: 14685957     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1468-5957.00385     Document Type: Article

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