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Earnings Quality Analytics (EQA)
is a service that provides forensic accounting and corporate governance analysis of
widely held companies. Leveraging the latest academic research, as well as our
proprietary quantitative models, we employ a rigorous, two-step research process
that objectively identifies companies with improving or deteriorating earnings
quality characteristics.
The first step of our EQA research process is an ongoing quantitative measurement of
earnings quality of 5,500 companies (5,000 largest by market cap domestic and 500
largest by market cap ADR’s). Once our quantitative models identify companies with
improving or deteriorating earnings quality characteristics, the second step of our
EQA research process consists of an analyst-driven, qualitative assessment of a firm’s
financial statements, filings and management statements. Our analysis manifests itself
in a series of Detailed Reports, Alerts
and Bulletins,
as well as in our Greatest
Concerns List, Watch List and Standouts List.
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Our Founders, Dr. Carr Bettis and Dr. Donn Vickrey, lead our analyst team of over
30 research professionals. Further, Drs. Bettis and Vickrey are world-renowned
academicians and thought leaders in the fields of executive behavior and earnings
quality analysis. Their work has been published in the world’s leading finance and
accounting journals, and their body of academic work is the foundation of
Earnings Quality Analytics, Equity Incentive Analytics
and the Gradient Factor Suite, as well
as non-Gradient products such as Lancer Analytics, currently offered by Thomson Financial.
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