Abstract
Ohlson and Aier (2009) propose a model of modified cash accounting (MCA) for analyzing and evaluating a firm’s cash flows. They suggest that MCA cash earnings provide a better measure of earnings than GAAP’s measure, and that the MCA bottom line is more informative because it identifies earnings due to operations on a cash- and approximate cash-equivalent basis. However, there is no empirical test for the information content of MCA cash earnings proposed by Ohlson and Aier (2009). This study empirically examines the incremental information content of MCA cash earnings compared with cash flow from operations (CFO) and GAAP earnings per share (EPS) using stock returns as the benchmark for firms’ performance during the 2001–2011 period. We find that MCA cash earnings provide incremental information content beyond CFO and EPS.
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