What Is the Accounting Relationship in Which Earnings Per Share

question 13

Multiple Choice

What is the accounting relationship in which earnings per share minus dividends equal the change in book value per share called?

• A) clean surplus relationship
• B) economic value added relationship
• C) accounting earnings identity
• D) payout-retention identity
• E) dividend valuation equation

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