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Overview

Patricia M. Dechow is affiliated with the University of Southern California in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of Business, Management and Accounting as well as Economics, Econometrics and Finance. Within these broad areas, they have contributed notably to Accounting, Finance, Economics and Econometrics, Strategy and Management, and Marketing.

The researcher has explored multiple topics in their academic work, particularly focusing on Auditing, Earnings Management, and Governance, Financial Markets and Investment Strategies, Corporate Finance and Governance, Corporate Social Responsibility Reporting, Market Dynamics and Volatility, Behavioral Health and Interventions, and Sports Analytics and Performance.

Among the venues where Patricia M. Dechow has frequently published are:

  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • The Accounting Review
  • Journal of Accounting Research
  • Management Science
  • Review of Accounting Studies

Recent significant publications include:

  • Understanding the Sustainability Reporting Landscape and Research Opportunities in Accounting, 2023, The Accounting Review
  • Implied Equity Duration: A Measure of Pandemic Shutdown Risk, 2021, Journal of Accounting Research
  • Understanding the Determinants of Analyst Target Price Implied Returns, 2020, The Accounting Review
  • Understanding the Sustainability Reporting Landscape and Research Opportunities in Accounting, 2023, SSRN Electronic Journal
  • How Do Accounting Practices Spread? An Examination of Law Firm Networks and Stock Option Backdating, 2020, The Accounting Review

Collaboration is a marked feature of their work. Frequent co-authors include Wei Ting Loh, Ryan Erhard, Richard G. Sloan, Samuel T. Tan, and Alastair Lawrence.

Best Publications

  • DETECTING EARNINGS MANAGEMENT

    P Dechow;R Sloan;A P Sweeney

  • The Quality of Accruals and Earnings: The Role of Accrual Estimation Errors

    Patricia M. Dechow;Ilia D. Dichev

  • Causes and Consequences of Earnings Manipulation: An Analysis of Firms Subject to Enforcement Actions by the SEC*

    Patricia M. Dechow;Richard G. Sloan;Amy P. Sweeney

  • Understanding Earnings Quality: A Review of the Proxies, Their Determinants and Their Consequences

    Patricia M Dechow;Weili Ge;Catherine M Schrand

  • Accounting earnings and cash flows as measures of firm performance: The role of accounting accruals

    Patricia Mary Dechow

  • Detecting Earnings Management

    Patricia M. Dechow;Richard G. Sloan;Amy P. Hutton

  • Earnings Management: Reconciling the Views of Accounting Academics, Practitioners, and Regulators

    Patricia M. Dechow;Douglas J. Skinner

  • The relation between earnings and cash flows

    Patricia M. Dechow;S.P. Kothari;Ross L. Watts

  • Executive incentives and the horizon problem: An empirical investigation

    Patricia M. Dechow;Richard G. Sloan

  • The Quality of Accruals and Earnings: The Role of Accrual Estimation Errors

    Ilia D. Dichev;Patricia M. Dechow

  • Predicting Material Accounting Misstatements*: Predicting Material Accounting Misstatements

    Patricia M. Dechow;Weili Ge;Chad R. Larson;Richard G. Sloan

  • An empirical assessment of the residual income valuation model

    Patricia M. Dechow;Amy P. Hutton;Richard G. Sloan

  • Why Are Earnings Kinky? An Examination of the Earnings Management Explanation

    Patricia M. Dechow;Scott A. Richardson;Irem Tuna

  • Short-sellers, fundamental analysis and stock returns *

    Patricia M. Dechow;Amy P. Hutton;Lisa Meulbroek;Richard G. Sloan

  • Detecting Earnings Management: A New Approach

    Patricia M. Dechow;Amy P. Hutton;Jung Hoon Kim;Richard G. Sloan

  • The Relation between Analysts' Forecasts of Long‐Term Earnings Growth and Stock Price Performance Following Equity Offerings*

    Patricia M. Dechow;Amy P. Hutton;Richard G. Sloan

  • Causes and Consequences of Earnings Manipulation: An Analysis of Firms Subject to Enforcement Actions by the Sec

    Patricia M. Dechow;Richard G. Sloan;Amy P. Hutton

  • Understanding Earnings Quality: A Review of the Proxies, Their Determinants and Their Consequences

    Patricia M. Dechow;Weili Ge;Catherine M. Schrand

  • The persistence of earnings and cash flows and the role of special items: Implications for the accrual anomaly

    Patricia M. Dechow;Weili Ge

  • Fair value accounting and gains from asset securitizations: A convenient earnings management tool with compensation side-benefits

    Patricia M. Dechow;Linda A. Myers;Catherine Shakespeare

  • The Persistence and Pricing of the Cash Component of Earnings

    Patricia M. Dechow;Scott A. Richardson;Richard G. Sloan

  • Earnings Management: Reconciling the Views of Accounting Academics, Practitioners, and Regulators

    Patricia M. Dechow;Douglas J. Skinner

Frequent Co-Authors

Richard G. Sloan
Richard G. Sloan University of Southern California
Scott A. Richardson
Scott A. Richardson London Business School
Linda A. Myers
Linda A. Myers University of Tennessee at Knoxville
Douglas J. Skinner
Douglas J. Skinner University of Chicago
Katherine Schipper
Katherine Schipper Duke University
Jennifer Francis
Jennifer Francis Duke University
Maureen F. McNichols
Maureen F. McNichols Stanford University

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