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What is Quality of Earnings?

CFO Share

Audited financial statements focus on compliance with GAAP accounting standards, whereas Quality of Earnings reports focus on the company’s earnings history and potential. Significant and/or unusual accounting policies such as: Changes in accounting methods. Changes in accounting principles. appeared first on CFOShare.

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Data Update 4 for 2024: Danger and Opportunity - Bringing Risk into the Equation!

Musings on Markets

The first is liquidity, with markets with less trading and liquidity exhibiting low price-based risk scores across the board. That may sound like a contradiction, but it does reflect the divide between measures of total risk (like the price range and standard deviation) and measures of just market risk (like the beta).