Applying both the price-levels model and the lagged-price-deflated returns model, we investigated the incremental value relevance of the reconciliation of accounts from the Chinese Accounting Standards (CAS) to the International Accounting Standards (IAS) by those Chinese listed companies that have simultaneously issued A-shares and B-shares. In addition, we examined the usefulness of accountin...

The reform to convert non-floating shares to floating in China provides a setting in which shares are subject to different liquidity constraint. We show that the severity of this constraint is inversely related to the extent to which earnings information is reflected in the share prices. Specifically, before the reform, the transfer prices of non-floating shares reflect much less earnings infor...

The purpose of this paper is to identify the impact risk indicators insurance companies listed on Palestine Stock Exchange earnings per share over period 2010–2017. sample consists seven Exchange. data was analyzed using OLS regression technique. This helps determine relationship between independent variable (earnings share) and dependent variables (liquidity risk, capital rate risky assets). r...

Survey and empirical evidence reveals that managers prefer to avoid earnings dilution, though financial theory suggests that it is irrelevant in firm valuation. We explore contracting and behavioral explanations for this apparent paradox. Using a large sample of debt/equity issuers, we report evidence that managers only avoid earnings dilution when their bonus compensation explicitly depends up...