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How You Can Avoid Earning Manipulators – The Beneish M-Score

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How You Can Avoid Earning Manipulators - The Beneish M-Score by Quant Investing

As you know we are always looking for and testing the results of good academic studies give you more and better tools to use in the Quant Investing screener.

Find out if a company is manipulating

Some time ago we ran into a research paper that can help you to quickly and easily find out if a company is manipulating its financial statements.

Beneish M-Score?

You can do this by using an indicator called the Beneish M-Score (M-Score) which is already built into the screener.

The Beneish M-Score comes from a research paper published in 1999 by Dr Messod Beneish; an accounting professor at Indiana University's Kelley...

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