Aspects of the Economic Implications of Accounting

Gerald H. Lawson

Introduction Chapter 1: Assessing economic performance on a cash flow[1]market value basis Chapter 2: Assessing the efficiency of dividend and debt -financing policies Chapter 3: The financial performance of U.S. Nonfinancial Corporate Business 1945-1990 - I. Data and preliminary analysis Chapter 4: The financial performance of U.S. Nonfinancial Corporate Business 1945-1990 - II. Financial policy and fiscal implications of cash flow-accruals relationships Chapter 5: The financial performance of U.S. Nonfinancial Corporate Business 1945-1990 - III. CF-MV accounting performance and HC accounting performance Chapter 6: Determinants of the deviations between cash flow and accruals variables (see explanatory note on page 225).Chapter 7: Individual company performance: corporate income distributions Chapter 8: Individual company performance: income and profitability measurement Chapter 9: Literature survey