The Effects of Accruals and Cash Flow Anomalies on Net Profit and Abnormal Stock Returns in Accepted Companies in Tehran Securities Exchange

Subject Areas : Financial Mathematics

Saeid Barati ¹ , Hossein Karbasiyazdi ²

1 - Department of Management, Arak Branch, Islamic Azad University, Arak, Iran
2 - Department of Management, South Tehran Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran.

Received: 2017-06-10 Accepted : 2017-06-10 Published : 2017-06-01

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