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The Stock Market Reaction to Performance Plan Adoptions.

The Accounting Review 1992 67(1), 172-182
Examines the stock market reaction to the adoption of long-term compensation agreements for top management that are based on accounting goals. Method of study; Reaction observed for the adopting firms due to the impending shareholders' meeting rather than to the performance plan adoption per se; Caution in the interpretation of announcements made around the time of the annual shareholders' meeting.

The Role of the Accounting Rate of Return in Financial Statement Analysis.

The Accounting Review 1992 67(2), 411-426
Focuses on the use of the accounting rate of return (ARR) in evaluating the financial performance of companies in the United States. Relationship between accounting and economic rates of return; Derivation of accounting-based formula for the present value of a firm; Simplification with constant ARR and constant growth; Uses and limitations of derived equations in financial analysis.