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Showing 1 to 8 of 8 for “"Corporate profits"”.
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Three Essays on Fiscal Stimulus, Corporate Policies, and the Local Economy
… have captured an ever-growing share of U.S. corporate profits. In parallel, payout rates have risen sharply: firms increasingly return profits to shareholders rather than retain them. Together, these two trends have produced a dramatic surge in corporate payout distributions. For example, …
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Macroeconomic consequences of accounting : the effect of accounting conservatism on macroeconomic indicators and the money supply
… I demonstrate that annual estimates of aggregate corporate profits and gross domestic product from 1929 to 2007 compiled by the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis are more sensitive to negative aggregate cash flow news than to positive aggregate cash flow news. Next, I estimate the dollar value …
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Dynamics of corporate profitability: A study of the UK market (1981-2000)
This thesis investigates the behaviour of corporate profits for a sample of firms in the United Kingdom for the period 1981-2000. The competitive environment hypothesis postulates that there is an in built mechanism that forces any deviations back towards the normal rate of return through a cycle …
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The Effect of IFRS Adoption on the Predictive Ability of Aggregate Accruals for Economic Growth
… accruals to better predict a component of GDP (corporate profits) and factors related to GDP change (change in corporate investment and unemployment rate). The results are more pronounced for adopting countries with greater differences between local accounting standards and IFRS and for adopting …
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Evaluation of the impact of brand equity on shareholder returns amongst South African companies
The research aimed at broadly exploring whether there is a relationship between brand equity and shareholder returns amongst South African companies. More specifically, the research sought to establish whether there was a correlation between strong brand equity, represented by the Markinor brand …
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Transfer Pricing in the Oil Industry: Improving Tax Anti-Avoidance Regimes in the Gulf Of Guinea
… of 2008 that widely caused a decline in corporate profits. Over time, the effect has been reinforced reliance by multinational enterprises (MNEs) on aggressive tax planning schemes to optimize after tax profits and the adoption of countervailing measures by governments to protect their …
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Postretirement benefits other than pensions : recommendations based on a study of relevant standards, conceptual frameworks and current trends
… and the total impact of the standard on corporate profits has been estimated at between $200 billion and a trillion dollars" (Espahbodi et al, 1991 , pp 325). It was SFAS 106 and the well-documented effects thereof that heralded the development of other international accounting standards …