On Estimating Conditional Conservatism

The concept of conditional conservatism (asymmetric earnings timeliness) has provided new insight into financial reporting and stimulated considerable research since Basu (1997). Patatoukas and Thomas (2011) report bias in firm-level cross-sectional asymmetry estimates that they attribute to scale e...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Ball, Ray, Kothari, S. P., Nikolaev, Valeri V.
Other Authors: Sloan School of Management
Format: Article
Language:en_US
Published: American Accounting Association 2014
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/87766
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1120-1177