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Some time series properties of corporate cash recovery rates

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. Empirical research into corporate cash recovery rates has, in part, relied on arguments leading to the assumption that these rates are reasonably stable over time. Equivalently, the process generating firms' cash recovery rates is assumed to be mean reverting. Empirical findings of this study on the time series properties of corporate cash recovery rates failed to validate this assumption. In particular, the results indicate that the overall processes generating levels and first differences of cash recovery rates can adequately be described by a first†order autoregressive process and a first†order moving average, respectively. The paper discusses some implications of these results for the theoretical modeling of the internal rate of return/cash recovery rate relationship and the empirical research based thereon. Résumé. Les recherches empiriques en matière de taux de recouvrement de trésorerie des sociétés ont été fondées en partie sur une augmentation menant à l'hypothèse d'une stabilité raisonnable de ces taux dans le temps. Autrement dit, le processus générateur des taux de recouvrement de trésorerie pour les firmes est supposé de type moyenne mobile. Les résultats empiriques de cette étude sur les propriétés des séries chronologiques de taux de recouvrement de trésorerie n'ont pas permis de valider cette hypothèse. En particulier, les résultats indiquent que les processus générateurs globaux et les différences d'ordre un des taux de recouvrement de trésorerie peuvent être adéquatement décrits, respectivement par un processus autorégressif d'ordre un et un processus de moyenne mobile d'ordre un. L'article discute de quelques conséquences de ces résultats quant à la modélisation théorique de la relation entre le taux de rendement effectif et le taux de recouvrement de trésorerie, et quant à la recherche empirique fondée sur celle†ci.

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  • Badr E. Ismail, 1987. "Some time series properties of corporate cash recovery rates," Contemporary Accounting Research, John Wiley & Sons, vol. 4(1), pages 76-88, September.
  • Handle: RePEc:wly:coacre:v:4:y:1987:i:1:p:76-88
    DOI: 10.1111/j.1911-3846.1987.tb00656.x
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    1. Andrew Stark, 1993. "Problems in measuring the cash recovery rate and measurement error in estimates of the firm IRR," European Accounting Review, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 2(2), pages 199-218.

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