Talk:Earnings quality

Creation of page
I created the page on June 29, 2008, using information from the two textbooks listed in the Notes, and certain websites. I will only be able to update this page further once I get back to my home country and have access to a library, so I will be removing the under-construction tag soon. Feel free to edit as appropriate. -- Well-rested Talk  09:19, 2 July 2008 (UTC)

Recent edits
There have been recent edits to the article to shift the context from one of, broadly, accounting, to one that defines earnings quality as a ratio, or as something "similar to earnings per share" (see this edit). These edits are not based on reliable sources and in fact contradict the sources already up on the article, so I have reverted the contents of the article to roughly their original form.

The category of the article was also shifted from Accountancy to Financial Accounting. I have reverted this because the subject, per the sources cited, covers a much broader area than simply financial accounting. For example, manipulation of earnings pertains not just to financial accounting, but also to management accounting and corporate finance.

I would appreciate if the person making these changes would cite his sources as he makes the changes, and I have requested that he air his views on this discussion page if he doesn't agree with my edits.

Cheers,  Well-rested Talk  11:11, 14 July 2008 (UTC)


 * Hi, Category:Accountancy is the default +cat, it needs to go to a +subcat, so I am going to use Category:Accounting systems, which seems appropriate. Green Squares (talk) 23:01, 14 July 2008 (UTC)