The role of revenue in firm valuation

Accounting Horizons

Volumn 22, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 199-222

  Chandra, Uday ^a   Ro, Byung T ^b  

^a STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^b PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Information content; Longitudinal change in value relevance; Nonllnearity; Revenue; Value relevance

Indexed keywords

EID: 46749090868     PISSN: 08887993     EISSN: 15587975     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2308/acch.2008.22.2.199     Document Type: Article

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