Discuss the concept of market efficiency

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Question: 1. Why does the concept of market efficiency (with respect to information) have no necessary relation to the quality of accounting information? Why is this distinction important with respect to accounting policy making?

2. What questions have been raised relative to the efficient-markets hypothesis?

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