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title: Accounting Comparability
url: https://www.ml-quant.com/papers/ssrn/4993512/
site: ML-Quant (https://www.ml-quant.com)
updated: 2026-09-26
license: Summaries CC BY 4.0; links go to the original sources
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identifier: SSRN 4993512
source_url: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4993512
featured: 2024-10-23
citations: unknown
topic: Risk, Credit & Banking
---


# Accounting Comparability

The research indicates that firms with higher accounting comparability have lower ESG reputational risk, reduced capital costs, and increased investment activity, emphasizing the role of comparability in financial decision-making and risk management.

- Source: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4993512
- Identifier: SSRN 4993512
- Released: 2024-10-20
- First featured: Quant Letter No. 71 (2024-10-23): https://www.ml-quant.com/issues/2024-10-23/
- Citations (Semantic Scholar): not tracked
- Published in: not yet
- Topic: Risk, Credit & Banking

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