... provides a better analysis of the effects of analyst activities on the firm value. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2010 Financial analysis Company performance Stock returns Financial markets The value of information created by research analysts has been widely documented...

... hierarchy. The results suggest that regulators and practitioners should focus on different thresholds for different types of firms when investigating the mechanisms used to achieve the thresholds. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2010 Financial forecasting Financial analysis Organizational...

... that are designed to protect individual investors. Abed AL‐Nasser Abdallah can be contacted at: abedabdallah@aus.edu © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2008 Regulation Financial analysis Financial forecasting Civil law Common law In this regard, Lang, Lins and Miller (2003) examine...

... take this time horizon into account. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2008 Manufacturing resource planning Financial analysis Enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems promise integration of operations and standardization of information with many derived benefits...

... Publishing Limited 2007 Financial reporting Financial analysis Accounting information We use financial statement data from Compustat to calculate all of our measures of firms' relative operational efficiency. Earnings forecasts and actual earnings data used to calculate forecast errors...

... is the first to study the relation between disclosure policy and intraday spread patterns. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2007 Financial analysis Disclosure Bid‐offer spreads Share prices United States of America Specialists’ quoted bid‐ask spreads exhibit a distinct U‐shaped...

...). The observed signs of the LDA model coefficients are same as the expected sign. From our analysis, the following four ratios were found to be significant discriminators of credit ratings of the companies at 10 per cent α‐level: Credit rating Neutral nets Forecasting Financial analysis Pattern...