Richard M. Morton

1.8k citations

35 papers · 1.4k indexed · 1 hit paper · h-index 14

Co-authors: Bruce K. Billings Anwer S. Ahmed Bok Baik Turlough M. Finan Thomas F. Schaefer Mary Harris Stanford Rahat Zaheer Zhenchao Yuan
Topics: Auditing, Earnings Management, Governance (29 papers)Corporate Finance and Governance (21 papers)Financial Markets and Investment Strategies (17 papers)
Cited by: Accounting Finance Strategy and Management
Journals: Nucleic Acids Research Applied and Environmental Microbiology Molecular Microbiology
Partner nations: United States South Korea Canada

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Richard M. Morton

33 papers receiving 1.3k citations

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The Role of Accounting Conservatism in Mitigating Bondholder-Shareholder Conflicts over Dividend Policy and in Reducing Debt Costs

2002 731 citations Anwer S. Ahmed, Bruce K. Billings et al. profile →

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#	Work	Indexed citations
1	Accrual Management and the Decision to Sell or Hold Shares Acquired from the Exercise of Employee Stock Options 2020 ·Thomas Smith,(unknown),Richard M. Morton	0
2	The Economic Effects of Earnings Management Pre- and Post-SOX 2020 ·DigiNole (Florida State University) ·(unknown),Richard M. Morton	2
3	Lagged Earnings Asymmetry in a Firm-Year Measure of Accounting Conservatism 2018 ·Bruce K. Billings,James Moon,Richard M. Morton	2
4	Analysts’ pre-tax income forecasts and the tax expense anomaly 2016 ·Review of Accounting Studies ·Bok Baik,Kyonghee Kim,Richard M. Morton,(unknown)	22
5	Accrual Management and the Decision to Hold the Shares Acquired from the Exercise of Executive Stock Options 2013 ·SSRN Electronic Journal ·(unknown),Richard M. Morton,Thomas Smith	1
6	Control of hydroxyproline catabolism in Sinorhizobium meliloti 2012 ·Molecular Microbiology ·Catharine E. White,(unknown),Richard M. Morton,Philip Britz‐McKibbin,Turlough M. Finan	27
7	Why Are Analysts Less Likely to Follow Firms with High Managerial Ownership? 2010 ·Journal of Accounting Auditing & Finance ·Bok Baik,Jun‐Koo Kang,Richard M. Morton	30
8	Reliability and Transparency of Non-GAAP Disclosures by Real Estate Investment Trusts (REITs) 2007 ·SSRN Electronic Journal ·Bok Baik,Bruce K. Billings,Richard M. Morton	7
9	Earnings Management in Takeovers of Privately Held Targets 2007 ·SSRN Electronic Journal ·Bok Baik,Jun‐Koo Kang,Richard M. Morton	10
10	Genome prediction of PhoB regulated promoters in Sinorhizobium meliloti and twelve proteobacteria 2006 ·Nucleic Acids Research ·Zhenchao Yuan,Rahat Zaheer,Richard M. Morton,Turlough M. Finan	96
11	The Effect of Increased Transparency on Manipulation and Value Relevance of Non-GAAP Disclosures by Real Estate Investment Trusts (REITs) 2006 ·SSRN Electronic Journal ·Bok Baik,Bruce K. Billings,Richard M. Morton	7
12	Manipulation, Increased Transparency, and Value Relevance of Non-Gaap Disclosures for Real Estate Investment Trusts (Reits) 2005 ·SSRN Electronic Journal ·Bok Baik,Bruce K. Billings,Richard M. Morton	4
13	Extreme Accruals, Earnings Quality, and Investor Mispricing 2004 ·SSRN Electronic Journal ·Anwer S. Ahmed,Bruce K. Billings,Richard M. Morton	6
14	The Role of Accounting Conservatism in Mitigating Bondholder-Shareholder Conflicts over Dividend Policy and in Reducing Debt Costs 2002 ·SSRN Electronic Journal ·Anwer S. Ahmed,Bruce K. Billings,Richard M. Morton,Mary Harris Stanford	115
15	Book‐to‐Market Components, Future Security Returns, and Errors in Expected Future Earnings 2001 ·Journal of Accounting Research ·Bruce K. Billings,Richard M. Morton	22
16	The value-relevance of current and forward-looking accounting information subsequent to a corporate restructuring 2001 ·Advances in Accounting ·Richard M. Morton,John D. Neill	5
17	Book-to-Market Components, Future Security Returns, and Errors in Expected Future Earnings 1999 ·SSRN Electronic Journal ·Bruce K. Billings,Richard M. Morton	5
18	Do Stock Prices Fully Reflect Information in Dividends about Future Earnings? 1999 ·SSRN Electronic Journal ·Bruce K. Billings,Richard M. Morton	2
19	The Incremental Informativeness of Stock Prices for Future Accounting Earnings* 1998 ·Contemporary Accounting Research ·Richard M. Morton	1
20	The information environment and the ability of logit‐based financial statement analysis to predict abnormal returns 1998 ·Accounting and Finance ·Richard M. Morton,Philip B. Shane	2

About Richard M. Morton

Richard M. Morton is a scholar working on Accounting, Finance and Strategy and Management, having authored 35 papers that have together received 1.4k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Auditing, Earnings Management, Governance (29 papers), Corporate Finance and Governance (21 papers) and Financial Markets and Investment Strategies (17 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Accounting (1.1k citations), Finance (420 citations) and Strategy and Management (537 citations). Richard M. Morton has collaborated with scholars based in United States, South Korea and Canada. Frequent co-authors include Bruce K. Billings, Anwer S. Ahmed, Bok Baik, Turlough M. Finan, Thomas F. Schaefer, Mary Harris Stanford, Rahat Zaheer, Zhenchao Yuan, Jun‐Koo Kang and G. Brian Golding. Their work appears in journals such as Nucleic Acids Research, Applied and Environmental Microbiology and Molecular Microbiology.

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