The Relationship between Intellectual Capital and Income Smoothing  and Stock Returns

Hamidreza Vakilifard; Masoumeh Sadat Rasouli

doi:10.5817/FAI2013-2-3

The Relationship between Intellectual Capital and Income Smoothing and Stock Returns

Vol.4,No.2(2013)

Hamidreza Vakilifard Masoumeh Sadat Rasouli

https://doi.org/10.5817/FAI2013-2-3

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Abstract

This article examines the relationship between intellectual capital, income smoothing and stock returns. We are capturing income smoothing through total accruals. Income smoothing firms have significantly higher abnormal returns around earnings announcement. In the knowledge economy, intellectual capital has become one of the primary sources of competitive advantage for a firm. Given the remarkable shift in the underlying production factors of a business within the new knowledge economy, it is important for firms to be aware of the elements of intellectual capital that would lead to value creation. So we associated relationship between intellectual capital and income smoothing and stock returns. The sample includes 108 firm-year observations from 2006 to 2011.We have used five variables

Keywords:
intellectual capital; income smoothing; stock returns; structural capital; human capital

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