A String of Earnings Increases, Future Earnings Uncertainty, and Firm Fundamentals* Sarayut Rueangsuwan † Kasetsart University, Thailand August 2015 Abstract Prior literature on meeting or beating earnings benchmarks extensively documents that market rewards firms reporting a string of consecutively earnings increases. To date, it is still unclear what an earnings string really means. This paper empirically provides rational explanations for this phenomenon by investigating whether the increment...

, capital formation and allocation. The quality of corporate governance affects the cost for corporations to access capital for growth and the confidence with which those that provide capital – directly or

Governance of Publicly Traded Company - Definition (Section 89/1) - Qualifications and the removal of directors and executives (Section 89/3 - 89/6) - Duty and responsibility of directors and executives (Section 89/7 - 89/14) - Shareholders’ rights under Chapter 3/1 (Section 89/26, 89/28, 89/30) - Shareholder’s right to bring a derivative action and a private lawsuit against directors and executives (Section 89/18 - 89/20) - Criminal liability of directors and executives (Section 281/2, 281/3, 2...