In order to assess the robustness of the results obtained with the Dechow and
Dichev (2002) measure of accruals quality, in this section we considered other
proxies for accruals quality and repeated the analyses reported in the previous
section.Our second proxy for accruals quality was calculated following the Ball and
Shivakumar (2006) model, which includes three variables in addition to those
used in the Dechow and Dichev (2002) model: