Bøger i Foundations and Trends (R) in Accounting serien

Aggregates the large body of international tax literature succinctly in one location. Very little of what is incorporated in this piece is novel. Rather, it borrows heavily from those researchers who have focused their careers on understanding taxation in the multinational context.

Reviews current research activities around earnings quality. The book provides an overview of alternative definitions and measures of earnings quality and a discussion of research design choices encountered in earnings quality research with a focus on capital markets.

Focuses on estimating the expected rate of return implied by market prices, summary accounting numbers, and forecasts of earnings and dividends. Estimates of the expected rate of return, often used as proxies for the cost of capital, are obtained by inverting accounting-based valuation models.

Presents a new approach to the study of accounting measurement and disclosure that challenges the existing accounting literature. This approach argues that how firms' economic transactions, earnings, and capital flows are measured and reported to the capital markets has substantial effects on the allocation of resources in the economy in general.

Presents a model of earnings and dividends leading up to the core principle that growth in earnings explains the price to forward-earnings ratio. This model is referred to as the OJ (Ohlson and Jeuttner-Nauroth) model. The OJ model takes into account the near term and the long term to explain the price to forward-earnings ratio.