The study makes two additional contributions. First, we compute incremental expla-natory power for residual earnings
(the appropriate value under the residual earnings model) rather than for earnings as in prior studies. Residual earnings have little correlation with book value and allow a better separation of the explanatory power of book value and earnings. Second, we investigate the effects of different price dates in the relation. We find that year-end stock prices are more highly correlated with accounting variables in most countries and are near to the highest correlation in all countries.