Does income smoothing improve earnings informativeness?

Accounting Review

Volumn 81, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 251-270

  Tucker, Jennifer W ^a   Zarowin, Paul A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^b NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Earnings management; Future earnings response coefficient (FERC); Income smoothing; Informativeness

Indexed keywords

EID: 33644671133     PISSN: 00014826     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2308/accr.2006.81.1.251     Document Type: Review

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