Research on the usefulness of financial information generally focuses on the innovation in the information examined, such as an earnings surprise or cash flow growth. Consequently, prior research sheds little light on the role of the rich historical record of financial information in users’ decision-making. Using a sample of published restatements of earnings, we show that the revision of the h...

Equity investors value CEO social capital when pricing firm equity. When is high, the relevance of book equity declines, whereas earnings measures increases. Results are stronger for firms in high-tech industries where information asymmetries higher. Social may be deconstructed into informational and reputational effects we report that a meaningful determinant both scenarios. robust to alternat...

Effects of dividend policy on corporate financial growth, is a major concern of most entities. Whether dividends have an influence on the value of the firm, is an important question in dividend policy. This study aimed at investigating the effects of dividend policy on financial growth of media firms. The study was conducted in Nairobi at The Nation media Group Headquarters. Respondents were se...

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the association between the intellectual capital of firms and their earnings quality. The Research was conducted with 158 accepted companies and 948 firm-year observations from Iran stock market. Empirical studies were conducted based on hypothesis by Value Added Intellectual Coefficient as measures of intellectual capital and taking absolute value of...

This research aims to investigate the value relevance of accounting information (VRAI) and effect that earnings management (EM) has on VRAI. Research VRAI is generally carried out using model introduced by Ohlson (1995). Problems will occur when as a company performance measurement tool faced with practice manipulation managers. study’s population all manufacturing companies listed LQ45 Index. ...