Book values and earnings are, of course, unobservable until some weeks after the end of
the fiscal year. This raises the question of the timing of the market value measure to be
associated with the accounting variables. As discussed by Barth et al. (1996), choice of
contemporaneous versus lagged market values is a trade-off. The advantage to using a
lagged market price is that it may reasonably reflect the accounting results since sufficient
time has passed for these results to be public information. However, lagged market values
will include effects of information and events occurring after the end of the fiscal year.
Collins et al. (1997), examining associations between market and accounting numbers for
US firms, take prices 3 months after the end of the fiscal period. In cross-country studies,
however, this is problematic since the time lag between fiscal year-ends and report dates can
vary widely. For this reason, our tests examine the relation between accounting numbers
(book value and residual EPS for a fiscal year) and stock prices at the end of the fiscal year.
Later, we analyze the sensitivity of our results using stock prices lagged 0 to 6 months
following the end of the fiscal year.
Book values and earnings are, of course, unobservable until some weeks after the end of
the fiscal year. This raises the question of the timing of the market value measure to be
associated with the accounting variables. As discussed by Barth et al. (1996), choice of
contemporaneous versus lagged market values is a trade-off. The advantage to using a
lagged market price is that it may reasonably reflect the accounting results since sufficient
time has passed for these results to be public information. However, lagged market values
will include effects of information and events occurring after the end of the fiscal year.
Collins et al. (1997), examining associations between market and accounting numbers for
US firms, take prices 3 months after the end of the fiscal period. In cross-country studies,
however, this is problematic since the time lag between fiscal year-ends and report dates can
vary widely. For this reason, our tests examine the relation between accounting numbers
(book value and residual EPS for a fiscal year) and stock prices at the end of the fiscal year.
Later, we analyze the sensitivity of our results using stock prices lagged 0 to 6 months
following the end of the fiscal year.
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