Which performance measures do investors around the world value the most-and why?

Accounting Review

Volumn 85, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 753-789

  Barton, Jan ^a   Hansen, Thomas Bowe ^b   Pownall, Grace ^a  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE   (United States)

Author keywords

Earnings attributes; International accounting standard setting; Summary performance measure; Value relevance

Indexed keywords

EID: 77954325768     PISSN: 00014826     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2308/accr.2010.85.3.753     Document Type: Article

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