Accounting returns revisited: Evidence of their usefulness in estimating economic returns

Review of Accounting Studies

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 493-530

  Danielson, Morris G ^a   Press, Eric ^b  

^a SAINT JOSEPH S UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b TEMPLE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Accounting information; Economic profit; Measuring profitability; Return on investment; Value relevance

Indexed keywords

EID: 3843089457     PISSN: 13806653     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1027368116754     Document Type: Article

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