Interim Information and the Information Content of Annual Earnings Announcements PDF Download

Author: Edward Bradley Grant
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Category : Corporations
Languages : en
Pages : 296

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Author: Mark L. DeFond
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Languages : en
Pages : 46

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We draw on the investor protection literature to identify structural factors in the financial reporting environment that are likely to explain cross-country differences in the information content of annual earnings announcements. Using data from over 50,000 annual earnings announcements in 26 countries, we find that annual earnings announcements are more informative in countries with higher quality earnings or better enforced insider trading laws, and that annual earnings announcements are less informative in countries with more frequent interim financial reporting. We also find that, on average, earnings announcements are more informative in countries with strong investor protection institutions.

Author: Edwin R. Etter
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Languages : en
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This paper utilizes daily closing prices on the U.S., British and Japanese markets, and daily trading volume on the U.S. market to investigate whether U.S. investors find information content in British and Japanese, annual and interim earnings announcements. When examining the unexpected price reaction, the vector autoregression (VAR) model is used to filter out the price effect of the earnings announcement in the home (non-U.S.) market in order to isolate the price effect generated by U.S. investors. Results of the price analyses indicate that U.S. investors find information content in both British and Japanese earnings announcements. Next, based on the model of Holthausen and Verrecchia (1990), price and trading volume responses are analyzed concurrently to determine the effect of the foreign earnings announcements on U.S. investors' level of informedness and degree of consensus (components of the information content). In general, the analyses indicate that both British and Japanese earnings announcements increase U.S. investors' level of informedness (i.e., decrease their level of uncertainty), and that British and Japanese earnings announcements have a greater impact on U.S. investors' level of informedness than on their degree of consensus.

Author: Gordon Douglas Richardson
Publisher: Ann Arbor, Mich. : University Microfilms International
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Category : Accounting
Languages : en
Pages : 350

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Author: Jean-Francois Gajewski
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Languages : en
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Annual net income is seen by shareholders as the most important figure, since it is, for individual accounts, the basis of appropriation of profit by the shareholders' general meeting. However, firms publish interim figures at a higher frequency to allow investors to react quickly to frequently updated information that gives them a more accurate view of the evolution of the firm. In the United States, according to regulation S-X, the interim quarterly reports must disclose the net income. In France, firms must publish their quarterly turnovers and their half-year income statements in addition to their annual accounts. Whereas American publications are practically homogeneous in nature in terms of earnings disclosure, the information content of French quarterly reports differs from that of the half-year and annual accounts. Such French irregularities in information content mean that interim and annual announcements do not have the same value for the shareholders. Because of the heterogeneous nature and the time frame of the disclosed information, one may wonder if French market reactions to the announcements of interim publications exhibit significantly different characteristics from those observed for quarterly releases in other countries. This can only be appreciated through a differential analysis of French market response to interim and annual announcements.

Author: Andrews Oppong
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Category : Corporation reports
Languages : en
Pages : 139

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Author: Edward Bradley Grant
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Languages : en
Pages : 260

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Author: Wayne R. Landsman
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Languages : en
Pages : 38

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In 1968, Beaver published his seminal paper on the information content of earnings announcements, establishing that both trading volume and return volatility increase at the time of earnings announcements. Thirty-some years after Beaver's study, concerns have been raised about a perceived degradation in the informativeness of earnings because of the increasing availability of timely non-accounting information and the increasing rate of technological innovation and change not reflected in the accounting system in a timely manner.In this paper we examine changes over the past thirty years in the information content of earnings using the two metrics from Beaver (1968): abnormal trading volume and volatility. In contrast to the conventional wisdom, we find no evidence of a decline in the informativeness of accounting information over the past thirty years, as measured by both abnormal trading volume and return volatility around quarterly earnings announcements. If anything, our results suggest an increase over time in the informativeness of quarterly earnings announcements. Variables reflecting changes in firm-specific factors account for a portion of the observed increase.

Author: Charles Edward Wasley
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Category : Accounting and price fluctuations
Languages : en
Pages : 108

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Author: Wendy M. Wilson
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Languages : en
Pages : 53

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This paper examines the information content of earnings following restatements of prior period earnings. Results indicate that the information content of earnings announcements declines in periods following a restatement, but that the loss of information content is temporary. In particular, the earnings response coefficients for earnings announcements surrounding a restatement exhibit a U-shaped pattern in which they return to pre-restatement levels over an average of four quarters, suggesting that the market's concern regarding subsequently reported earnings is somewhat transitory. The extent to which the earnings of restatement firms suffer a loss of information content varies across several dimensions. First, the loss of information content is greater for firms that restate earnings to correct revenue recognition errors than it is for other types of restatements. Second, the information content of earnings is significantly lower for firms that do not make changes to their financial reporting governance structure following a restatement relative to firms that initiate governance changes. Overall, the evidence presented in this paper is consistent with a short-term decline in investor confidence regarding financial reporting following restatements, but that recovery typically takes place within four quarters.