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Security Analysts and Capital Market Anomalies
09 Oct 2018
Country or region: Asia Pacific (Overall)
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This article qualifies for 0.75 CE under the guidelines of the CFA Institute Continuing Education Program. We encourage CFA Institute members to login to the CE tracking tool to self-document these credits. We examine whether analysts utilize information in well-known stock return anomalies when making recommendations. We find results contrary to common intuition that ......Statistics
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Topics covered in this category include: accounting practices and treatment; cash flow assessment; application and analysis of financial accounting; financial reporting and transparency; disclosure trends; value and interpretation of financial and non-financial disclosures; triple-bottom line; non-financial reporting; sustainability reporting; relevance of financial reporting performance measures; financial ratio analysis and techniques; definitions of profitability; audit function; importance of auditing; characteristics of auditing; factors impacting the auditing role.
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Topics in this category include: rationale for accounting policy choice; impact of changes in accounting policy choice; process of standard-setting; impact of regulation on accounting policy choice; trends in accounting policy; assessments of different accounting policy choices; accounting policy regimes; objectives of accounting policy; fundamentals of policy choice; disclosure of accounting policy; influences on accounting policy choice.
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