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| Tekijä: | Goel, A.M. Thakor, A.V. |
| Otsikko: | Why do firms smooth earnings? |
| Lehti: | Journal of Business
2003 : JAN, VOL. 76:1, p. 151-192 |
| Asiasana: | Earnings Investors Volatility |
| Kieli: | eng |
| Tiivistelmä: | The authors explain why a firm may smooth reported earnings. Greater earnings volatility leads to a bigger informational advantage for informed investors over uninformed investors. If sufficiently many current shareholders are uninformed and may need to trade in the future for liquidity reasons, an increase in the volatility of reported earnings will magnify these shareholders' trading losses. They will, therefore, want the manager to smooth reported earnings as much as possible. |
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