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Our article examines abnormal accruals for a large sample of UK firms between 1994 and 2004, standardized so as to control for firm size, profitability, growth, information asymmetry and debt. We find that financial distress, proxied by a bankruptcy prediction model developed for UK firms (Charitou et al., 2004), and profitability relative both to cross-sectional and industry-specific norms, are important determinants of abnormal accruals: this is consistent with Peasnell et al. (2000) and Butler et al. (2004). Our results also confirm the suggestion by Jiraporn (2005) that abnormal accruals for acquired firms do not appear to display a particular 'sign'.
Author(s): Zuo L, Hussain S
Publication type: Article
Publication status: Published
Journal: Applied Financial Economics Letters
Year: 2008
Volume: 4
Issue: 3
Pages: 183-186
Print publication date: 01/05/2008
ISSN (print): 1744-6546
ISSN (electronic): 1744-6554
Publisher: Routledge
URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/17446540701630064
DOI: 10.1080/17446540701630064
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