A Global Look at Environmental Disclosures
Do laws or the marketplace motivate firms to release information about their behavior?
Disclosing risk
Risk disclosure decisions can have a direct impact on a firm’s cost of capital. When is it in managers’ best interests to voluntarily reveal information about firm-specific risk?
Earnings, cash flows and complementarity
The no-arbitrage principle implies that expected real cash flows — not earnings estimates — should determine asset prices. So why do earnings announcements move markets, while cash flow news is all but ignored?
Shareholder value accounting
Stephen Penman explains how shareholder value accounting, an approach designed to accurately track the value of shareholders’ assets and liabilities, differs from traditional accounting methods.
Customer Lifetime Value
Donald Lehmann discusses Managing Customers as Investments, a new book in which he explains how to calculate and apply customer lifetime value.
External and Internal Pricing in Multidivisional Firms
Internal discounts for buying divisions within companies may enhance the efficiency of market-based transfer pricing.