The relative importance of accounting information can
be observed from various points of view, since there is a variety
of users. Studies that seek to analyze the relationship
between companies’ market value and accounting figures
are referred to as “value relevance” studies. These studies
aim to determine the relevance of a given item of information
to the capital markets, by seeing whether that information
is reflected in a company’s stock prices. Barth, Beaver,
and Landsman (2001) considered an item of information
to be relevant if it was correlated with the company’s market
valuation