Should Earnings Per Share (EPS) Be Taught as a Means of Comparing Intercompany Performance?

Journal of Education for Business

Volumn 82, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 343-348

  Jordan, Charles E ^a   Clark, Stanley J ^a   Smith, W Robert ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN MISSISSIPPI   (United States)

Author keywords

earnings per share; EPS; performance comparision

Indexed keywords

EID: 81855225937     PISSN: 08832323     EISSN: 19403356     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3200/JOEB.82.6.343-348     Document Type: Article

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