How Accounting Comparability Between Bidders and Targets Affects Deal Outcomes
Reynolds Holding
SEPTEMBER 21, 2022
Past research has associated financial statement comparability with (a) lower costs of acquiring information (De Franco et al., Motivated by that study, we investigate whether accounting comparability between the acquirer and the target , rather than between the target and its industry peers, is associated with more successful deals.
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