Sales Order Backlog and R&D Investment
Keywords:
accounting, finance, sales order backlog, R&D investmentAbstract
This study investigates the relationship between Sales Order Backlog and firm-level Research and Development (R&D) investment, employing Ordinary Least Squares (OLS) regression on a robust dataset of U.S. firms spanning from 2011 to 2021. We discover a statistically significant positive correlation between Sales Order Backlog and R&D expenditure, indicating that firms with a higher sales order backlog tend to allocate more resources to R&D. This research enriches the accounting discourse by shedding light on the strategic implications of sales order backlog for R&D investment. Specifically, it advances our understanding of the sales order backlog's role in corporate financial strategy, an area that remains relatively unexplored in accounting literature. Our findings underscore the importance of sales order backlog as a predictive indicator for future R&D activities, offering valuable insights for both practitioners and scholars interested in the dynamics of corporate investment behavior.
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