Considerable empirical research in accounting has been directed toward
the relationship of the equity price levels and the accounting
numbers (or other information) associated with a firm. Earnings and
dividends, for example, have heen extensively investigated as possihle
determinants of equity share price levels. One reason for studying such
accounting measurements is the notion that such measures reflect "true"
underlying values which investors employ in determining their demand
schedules for risky assets. More recent is the recognition that such "true"
underlying variahles are unobservable to investors and researchers alike,
and thus the more pragmatic approach is to deal with accounting numbers
as they are operationally measured, that is, directly via "generally accepted
accounting procedures."
This paper extends the existing work on information (accounting)-
based valuation models to a systematic and complete treatment of hoth
general and partial equilihrium. Previous work in this area has been done
by LeRoy [1973], Ohlson [1977; 1979], and, to some extent, Ruhinstein