The study examines value-relevance of accounting information represented by earnings and book values regarding economic situation and industry characteristics. In addition, the study presents the results in case where firms have negative earnings and ...
The study examines value-relevance of accounting information represented by earnings and book values regarding economic situation and industry characteristics. In addition, the study presents the results in case where firms have negative earnings and revalue assets. The main results are as follows.
First, earnings and book values explain sample firms' stock price consistently and significantly. In the selected sample firms regarding economic situation and industry characteristics shows the same results. In general, value-relevance of book values are superior to that of earnings. Second, stock prices are also influenced by economic situation even value-relevance of earnings and book values show high statistical significance. When using incremental basis analysis, the model using both earnings and book values has more value-relevance than the models using only earnings or book values respectively. Book values have more value-relevance in a economic depression, and earnings have more value-relevance in a prosperous economic condition. Value-relevance of accounting information are low in case where the firms have negative earnings or negative book values and revalue assets. The lower value-relevance of earnings in this case can explain the lower value-relevance in whole sample firms.