Research aims: This research investigates the association of conservatism (both conditional and unconditional) with quality earnings as well stock prices on companies listed Indonesia Stock Exchange (IDX).Design/Methodology/Approach: The uses a sample 846 observations publicly Indonesian for fiscal year that ends December 31, 2016 through 2018. Conditional is measured by using an asymmetric tim...

Recent studies show that regression-based estimates of accounting conservatism reflect both differences in the asymmetric recognition of bad news and differences in asset composition. In particular, a firm’s market value and returns reflect both assetsin-place and expected future rents, while book values tend to reflect only assets-in-place. We propose two tests that remove the effect of asset ...

Acknowledgments We gratefully acknowledge the comments of Sudipta Basu, Christian Leuz and Jerry Zimmerman, the referee, and workshop participants at the Universities of Amsterdam and Chicago. We are grateful for financial support from the University of Chicago, Graduate School of Business. Abstract We provide a simple test of " costly contracting " and " value relevance theories " of accountin...

The present study is intended to examine the effect of accounting conservatism on firms’ non-profitability in Tehran Stock Exchange in 48 unprofitable firms and 57 profitable firms over a period of seven years from 2001 to 2007. This study was conducted according to Givoly and Hayn model to measure accounting conservatism index in non-profitable and profitable) firms. Data analysis performed wi...