Are special items informative about future profit margins?

Review of Accounting Studies

Volumn 14, Issue 2-3, 2009, Pages 204-236

  Fairfield, Patricia M ^a   Kitching, Karen A ^b   Tang, Vicki Wei ^a  

^a GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Core earnings; Earnings aggregation; Persistence; Profit margins; Special items

Indexed keywords

EID: 67349163640     PISSN: 13806653     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11142-009-9084-9     Document Type: Conference Paper

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