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Pricing Of Innate And Discretionary Accruals In Australian Debt, Husam Aldamen, Keith Duncan
Pricing Of Innate And Discretionary Accruals In Australian Debt, Husam Aldamen, Keith Duncan
Keith Duncan
This paper addresses the conflicting evidence on the role of accruals in debt pricing. We show that the two subcomponents of accruals quality, innate and discretionary accruals, both impact the debt pricing. Higher innate accruals increases cost of debt, consistent with the prior evidence (Francis et al., 2005; Gray et al., 2009). However, we also find that higher discretionary accruals reduce the cost of debt. This contrasts with the prior evidence of a positive association between discretionary accruals and cost and debt (Francis et al., 2005), and no association (Gray et al., 2009). We show that noisy measurement of cost …
Family Ownership And The Value-Relevance Of Earnings And Book Value, Tim Hasso, Keith Duncan
Family Ownership And The Value-Relevance Of Earnings And Book Value, Tim Hasso, Keith Duncan
Keith Duncan
This study investigates the relation between family ownership and the value-relevance of two primary accounting measures, earnings and book value. We provide theories of the effect of family ownership on the value-relevance of earnings and book value. We contend that current accounting technology does not fully recognise the family firm factors in the earnings or book value of the firm. We find that the value-relevance of earnings and is higher for family firms. We attribute this to the long-term orientation and the higher quality earnings of these firms. In contrast, the value-relevance of book value is lower. We believe this …