An Investigation of the Quality of Earnings Concept as Applied to Defense Contractors

Abstract

This thesis analyzes whether the quality of earnings concept can be usefully employed in the security analysis of defense contractors. Background is provided by an extensive review of the literature relevant to quality of earnings. Since the quality of earnings concept is very subjective, specific quantitative measures of quality of earnings are developed and used in a statistical analysis to validate the variables as explanatory predictors of a firm's price earnings (P/E) ratio. The statistical techniques employed include Pearson's Product Moment Correlation, Spearman's Rank Order Correlation, stepwise regression and other multiple linear regression models. Results of the study suggest that there are significant relationships between several hypothesized quality of earnings variables and a firm's P/E ratio. Quality of earnings; Defense contractors.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Dec 01, 1989
Accession Number
ADA220346

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People

  • Todd A. Hauge

Organizations

  • Naval Postgraduate School

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Communities of Interest

  • Biomedical
  • Counter WMD
  • Energy and Power Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Accounting
  • Business Administration
  • Commerce
  • Contractors
  • Contracts
  • Data Analysis
  • Data Science
  • Governments
  • Information Processing
  • Information Science
  • Least Squares Method
  • Literature Surveys
  • Money
  • Regression Analysis
  • Security
  • Statistical Analysis
  • Two Dimensional

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