Open AccessRole of Accounting Information in Assessing Stock Prices in Bangladesh
Author(s) -
Nazmul Hassan,
Hasan Md. Mahmood Ul Haque
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
international journal of business and social research
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2164-2559
pISSN - 2164-2540
DOI - 10.18533/ijbsr.v7i10.1089
Subject(s) - earnings per share , book value , share price , stock exchange , valuation (finance) , equity (law) , earnings , economics , accounting , econometrics , stock (firearms) , accounting information system , financial economics , business , monetary economics , finance , political science , law , engineering , mechanical engineering
This paper seeks to explore the relationship between share prices and the value-relevance of accounting information. The basic Ohlson (1995) valuation model has been used to conduct the research using a sample of 93 companies from six broad industries listed on the Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE), Bangladesh. The adjusted (R²) and estimated regression coefficients of accounting variables are tested in this model. Results report that both Earnings per Share (EPS) and Book Value (BV) have influential power in determining share prices. But, results of the individual effect of EPS and BV to determining share price indicate that the EPS played an increasingly considerable role in projecting share prices than that of BV. Thus, EPS has become more informative to equity investors in predicting the share prices.