The relationship between accruals, earnings, and cash flows: evidence from latin america
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Date
2012-11
Authors
Trejo-Pech, Carlos O.
Noguera, Magdy
Samaniego-Alcántar, Ángel
Weldon, Richard N.
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Publisher
The Institute for Business and Finance Research
Abstract
Description
The relationships between earnings, accruals, and cash flows for selected Latin American countries
(Mexico, Chile, and Argentina) are investigated in this study from 1990 to 2009. We find a negative
relationship between accruals and cash flow across decile portfolios. More importantly, firms reporting
the highest level of accruals, have the worst level of cash flows, but not the worst level of earnings. This
relationship is of economic importance given that investors are very oriented towards firms yielding high
earnings and might fail to realize that earnings are not always accompanied by strong levels of cash
flows. Results are disaggregated by years and countries, and compared to previous results for U.S. firms.
Keywords
Finance, Earnings and Cash, Financial Accounting, Latin American Public Firms
Citation
Trejo-Pech, C., Noguera, M., Samaniego-Alcántar, Á., & Weldon, R. N. (2012). The relationship between accruals, earnings, and cash flows: evidence from Latin America, Accounting and Taxation, 4(1): 95-108.