Accruals quality, stock returns, and macroeconomic conditions

Accounting Review

Volumn 85, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 937-978

  Kim, Dongcheol ^a   Qi, Yaxuan ^b  

^a Korea University   (South Korea)

^b Civil and Environmental Engineering   (Canada)

Author keywords

Accruals quality; Cross sectional regression tests; Low priced returns; Macroeconomic conditions; Risk factor models

Indexed keywords

EID: 77954340607     PISSN: 00014826     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2308/accr.2010.85.3.937     Document Type: Article

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