Reporting Conservatism, Loss Reversals, and Earnings-based Valuation

We study the determinants of losses and their increased frequency over time to understand their implications for the use of financial statements in valuation. We find the properties of losses change between 1971-2000 both in terms of th...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Joos, Peter R., Plesko, George A.
Format: Working Paper
Language:en_US
Published: 2003
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/1855