Seminal Contributions to Accounting Literature Award
Previous Award Recipients
2022 — "Earnings Management to Avoid Earnings Decreases and Losses”
by David Burgstahler and Ilia D. Dichev
Journal of Accounting and Economics, Volume 24, Issue 1, December 1997
Press Release
2019 — "Accounting Earnings and Cash Flows as Measures of Firm Performance: The Role of Accounting Accruals"
by Patricia Dechow
Journal of Accounting and Economics (July) 1994
Press Release
2016 — "Do Stock Prices Fully Reflect Information in Accruals and Cash Flows About Future Earnings?"
by Richard G. Sloan
The Accounting Review (July) 1996
Press Release
2013 — "Earnings, Book Values, and Dividends in Security Valuation"
by James Ohlson
Contemporary Accounting Research, Volume 11, Issue 2 (Spring 1995)
pp. 661-687.
2007 — "Relevance Lost: The Rise and Fall of Management Accounting"
by H. Thomas Johnson and Robert S. Kaplan
Harvard Business School Press 1987
2004 — "Towards a Positive Theory of the Determination of Accounting Standards"
by Ross L. Watts and Jerold L. Zimmerman
The Accounting Review (January) 1978
1994 — "Economic Incentives in budgetary Control Systems"
by Joel S. Demski and Gerald A. Feltham
The Accounting Review (April) 1978
1989 — "Information Content of Annual Earnings Announcements"
by William H. Beaver
Journal of Accounting Research 1968
1986 — "An Empirical Evaluation of Accounting Income Numbers"
by Ray Ball and Philip Brown
Journal of Accounting Research 1968