th 94-3156448 (I.R.S. Employer Identification No.) 98004 (Zip Code) Registrant's telephone number, including area code: 425-943-8000 Securities registered pursuant to Section 12(b) of the Act: Common Stock, $0.001 par value Name of each exchange on which registered: The NASDAQ Stock Market LLC Securities registered pursuant to Section 12(g) of the Act: None Indicate by check mark if the Registrant is a well-known seasoned issuer, as defined in Rule 405 of the Securities Act. Yes x No ¨
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lower the reported earnings by as much as 50% and would adversely affect stock prices (Berton, 1993).A study by R.G. Associates Inc. found that in the year 2000, stock options overstated the earnings of the S&P companies by 9% (Geewax, 2002). For 2001, the average earnings of S&P companies would have been 23% lower if options were expensed (Weil & Segal, 2002). Botosan and Plumlee (2001) examined the effect of stock option expense on diluted EPS and Return on Assets (ROA) of 100 high growth
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Value Investing: The Use of Historical Financial Statement Information to Separate Winners from Losers Joseph D. Piotroski The University of Chicago Graduate School of Business 1101 East 58th Street Chicago, IL 60637 Phone: (773) 834-4199 Fax: (773) 702-0458 E-mail: joseph.piotroski@gsb.uchicago.edu April 2000 I would like to thank Mark Bradshaw, Peter Joos, Steve Monahan and an anonymous referee for their helpful comments, suggestions and support. Analyst forecast data was generously provided
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promise payoffs that are derived from the value of something else, which is called the “underlying.” The underlying is often a fi nancial asset or rate, but it does not have to be. For example, derivatives exist with payments linked to the S&P 500 stock index, the temperature at Kennedy Airport, and the number of bankruptcies among a group of selected companies. Some estimates of the size of the market for derivatives are in excess of $270 trillion – more than 100 times larger than 30 years ago
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REQUIRED [1] Three conditions are often present when fraud exists. First, management or employees have an incentive or are under pressure, which provides them a reason to commit the fraud act. Second, circumstances exist - for example, absent or ineffective internal controls or the ability for management to override controls - that provide an opportunity for the fraud to be perpetrated. Third, those involved are able to rationalize the fraud as being consistent with their personal code of ethics
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of Screening and Signaling’ 99 Riley – 2001 2 101 Harris & Raviv (1990) ‘Capital Structure and the Informational Role of Debt’ 106 Harris & Raviv (1990) 2 108 Harris & Raviv – 1990 3 109 Heinkel & Zechner (1990) ‘The Role of Debt and Preferred Stock as a Solution to Adverse Investment Incentives’
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Property, Plant and Equipment Property, Plant and Equipment I- Nature of Accounting Issues Businesses purchase and use a variety of fixed assets, such as equipment, furniture, tools, machinery, buildings, and land. These fixed assets are long-term or relatively permanent assets. Also, they are tangible assets because they exist physically. They are owned and used by the business and are not offered for sale as part of normal operations. Perhaps the most descriptive titles these assets are
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study tests the validity of using the CAPM beta as a risk control in cross-sectional accounting and finance research. We recognize that high risk stocks should experience either very good or very bad returns more frequently compared to low risk stocks, i.e. high risk stocks should cluster in the tails of the cross-sectional return distribution. Building on this intuition, we test the risk interpretation of the CAPM’s beta by examining if high beta stocks are more likely than low beta stocks to experience
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control risk regarding revenue cycle accounts. 6 Use audit procedures to test the effectiveness of controls in the revenue cycle. 7 Link the auditor’s control risk assessment to the development of substantive tests of accounts in the revenue cycle. 8 Describe the factors that influence the effectiveness and efficiency of audits of account balances. 9 Apply auditing concepts to test revenue. 10 Apply auditing concepts to test accounts receivable. 11 Describe fraud indicators in the revenue cycle
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Back end load, Operating expenses, 12b-1 charges – marketing and distribution costs • Mutual fund rate of returns over several years • Types of returns – holding period, average (equal), compounded (time), dollar weighted, scenario • Stock risk – standard deviation • Portfolio returns, standard deviation and variance
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