GAAP versus The Street: An Empirical Assessment of Two Alternative Definitions of Earnings
Preprint
- 1 January 2000
- preprint
- Published by Elsevier in SSRN Electronic Journal
Abstract
Security analysts, investors and the press are increasingly relying on modified definitions of GAAP net income, known by such names as 'operating EPS' and 'proKeywords
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