Long-run Accounting Conservatism and subsequent equity returns

Journal of Economic and Financial Sciences

 
 
Field Value
 
Title Long-run Accounting Conservatism and subsequent equity returns
 
Creator Badenhorst, Wessel M.
 
Subject Accounting conservatism; financial crisis; industry differences; long-term returns; three-factor model
Description This paper investigates the impact of long-run accounting conservatism on subsequent equity returns. The accounting conservatism proxy used is based on prior research and considered for different possible specifications. In contrast to prior research, this study compensates for the impact of momentum and the accrual anomaly by using five-year subsequent buy and hold total returns. A three-factor Fama and French model finds that accounting conservatism does not have a significant impact on subsequent equity returns for a sample of US firms. Stratifying the sample into pre-crisis and crisis periods does not affect results. However, this study also reveals that firms within certain industries do benefit from increased accounting conservatism, during both pre-crisis and crisis sample periods.
 
Publisher AOSIS
 
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Date 2016-03-10
 
Type info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion —
Format application/pdf
Identifier 10.4102/jef.v9i1.29
 
Source Journal of Economic and Financial Sciences; Vol 9, No 1 (2016); 60-75 2312-2803 1995-7076
 
Language eng
 
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Rights Copyright (c) 2017 Wessel M. Badenhorst https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
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