How do you think the efficient market hypothesis should impact the drafting of accounting standards, should it impact at all, and if so why or why not? and does accounting data really have predictive power, why or why not?
The solution provided is in the form of long essay type answer. It first discusses the three forms of market efficiency. Then it discusses how the accounting standard can have an impact under these three forms of market efficiency. The answer refers to the work of Kwon and Wild (1994) to explain how informativeness of financial communication matters in stock market.