Author: Jeremy Bertomeu Publisher: ISBN: Category : Languages : en Pages : 38
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This article examines the demand for disclosure rules by informed managers interested in increasing the market price of their firms. Within a model of political influence, a majority of managers chooses disclosure rules with which all firms must comply. In equilibrium, disclosure rules are asymmetric with greater levels of disclosure over adverse events. This asymmetry is positively associated with the informativeness of the measurement and increasing in the level of verifiability and ex-ante uncertainty of the information. The theory also offers implications about the relationship between mandatory and voluntary disclosure, when both channels are endogenous.
Author: Gill North Publisher: Kluwer Law International B.V. ISBN: 9041168184 Category : Law Languages : en Pages : 386
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Effective corporate reporting and disclosure are critical in financial markets to promote vigorous competition, optimal performance, and transparency. This book examines whether existing disclosure frameworks in eight countries with the world's most significant securities exchanges achieve these objectives, and then, drawing on extensive empirical findings, identifies the policies and practices that contribute most to improving the overall quality of listed company reporting and communication. Contending that public disclosure of listed company information is an essential precondition to the long-term efficient operation of financial markets, the book provides analysis of such issues and topics as the following: - arguments for and against mandatory disclosure regimes; - key principles of periodic and continuous disclosure regulation; - tensions between direct and indirect investment in financial markets; - assumptions concerning the need to maintain a privileged role for financial intermediaries; - intermediary, analyst, and research incentives; - protection of individual investors; - selective disclosure; - disclosure of bad news; - the role of accounting standards; - public access to company briefings; - long term performance reporting and analysis; and - company reporting developments. A significant portion of the book provides an overview of disclosure regulation and practice in the United States, Canada, Germany, the United Kingdom, Japan, Hong Kong, Australia, and Singapore. A highly informative survey looks at company reports, disclosures, and websites of large listed companies, including Microsoft, Citigroup, Teck Resources, Deutsche Bank, BP, Sony, PetroChina Company, BHP Billiton, and Singapore Telecommunications. The book discusses common disclosure issues that arise across jurisdictions, provides valuable insights on the efficacy of existing disclosure regulation and practice, and highlights the important principles, processes, and practices that underpin best practice company disclosure frameworks. It will be welcomed by company boards and executives and their counsel, as well as by policymakers and scholars in the areas of corporate, securities, banking and financial law, accounting, economics and finance.
Author: Lucrezia Songini Publisher: Emerald Group Publishing ISBN: 1838679650 Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 240
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For researchers and managers interested in performance measurement, this volume includes innovative research that sheds light on topics such as the determinants of disclosure quality, the identification of appropriate metrics, the relationship among the different disclosure mechanisms and between voluntary and mandatory disclosure, and many more.
Author: Stefania Veltri Publisher: Springer Nature ISBN: 3030479218 Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 176
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This book focuses on the impact of the disclosure of non-financial risk, which could be seen as the most relevant non-financial information (NFI), in the aftermath of the 2014/95/EU Directive. The author analyses whether the switch from voluntary to mandatory NFI enhance the quality of disclosed NF risk-related information and the usefulness of the risk disclosure for investors. The book focuses specifically on the mandatory disclosure of non-financial (NF) risks as required by the EU Directive for listed Italian companies, investigating both the state of art of its disclosure and its usefulness for investors. In doing so, the book contributes to fill two relevant gaps in risk literature. The first research gap is related to the insufficient investigation of the disclosure of NF risks. Companies mandated to disclose risk-related information focused mainly on financial risks, in spite of the width of the definition of risk, conceived as information about any opportunity, danger, threat, or exposure that has or could impact the company in the future. The second gap is that empirical evidence about the effects of corporate risk disclosures is still limited, and the potential benefits of the disclosure of information on risks have not been fully explored. In particular, the relationship between risk disclosures and firm value is under researched, as the risk literature mainly focuses on the incentives question, related to the motives for which companies decide to disclose. The research in this book focuses on Italy, a country that provides a unique opportunity to examine the impact of mandatory NF risk disclosure on firm market value, being one of the biggest industrial European countries that had not mandatory legislation for NFI disclosure, and also one of the leading countries in voluntary corporate social responsibility (CSR) reporting at an international level. It has been carried out in the fiscal year 2017, the first year of the application of the mandatory NF disclosure for obliged Italian listed PIEs. The book contributes both to the measurement literature, as it presents a self-constructed quality NF risks and to the value relevance analysis literature, providing evidence of the usefulness of financial and non-financial risk-related disclosures in the Italian context.
Author: Lino Cinquini Publisher: Springer Nature ISBN: 3030903559 Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 477
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The increasingly crucial role of companies’ non-financial disclosure (NFD) and integrated reporting (IR) has led to a lively debate among academics, practitioners, and regulators on the approaches, framework, contents, principles, and standards that should oversee these forms of reporting. Through several expert contributions, conducted both with qualitative and quantitative methodologies, this book provides an up-to-date portrait of the debate by exploring corporate NFD either in its mandated contents or voluntary information. Contributing authors provide studies that encompass the different lines of NFD, namely non-financial risk reporting, sustainability reporting, and intellectual capital reporting, as well as the integration of financial and non-financial information through IR, the assurance of the NFD and IR through auditing activities, and the role of management and CFOs in NFD and IR.
Author: Olga Cucaro Publisher: Olga Maria stefania Cucaro ISBN: Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 255
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THE EVALUATION OF FINANCIAL RISK PROFILE OF THE COMPANIES AND THE MANDATORY DISCLOSURE ON LIQUIDITY AND CREDIT RISK is a work born from a careful study of the evolution of the Italian and European legislation on the subject of financial risk communication and in particular of IFRS 7, Finacial Instruments: Disclosure. Thanks to this international accounting standard, Italian listed companies have included a greater number of disclosures on financial risks in their financial statements, but while there is no doubt the quantitative increase in information, the qualitative value of this communication is doubtful. In this regard, the study analyzes the usefulness of the disclosure introduced by IFRS 7 for financial analysts. The choice of analysts is a natural choice due to the importance they hold as intermediaries in the communication channel between companies and the market.
Author: Francesco De Luca Publisher: Emerald Group Publishing ISBN: 1839825065 Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 104
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The aim of the EU Directive 2014/95/EU, requiring the mandatory disclosure of non-financial information (NFI) by large undertakings and groups, is to rebuild trust with stakeholders. This book aims to summarize the relevant literature about company information with particular reference to the voluntary vis a vis mandatory NFI.
Author: Michael H. R. Erkens Publisher: Springer ISBN: 3658134410 Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 175
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Michael Erkens analyzes the determinants and consequences of information disclosure. He presents an empirical investigation of corporate risk management disclosures of nearly 400 firms from 20 European countries. The results show that countries’ institutional settings and cultural values are predominant factors why firms disclose information on their risk management practices. In another study, the author analyzes the economic consequences associated with the publication of an annual report in English by European firms from non-English speaking countries. He finds that the release of English annual reports attracts more analysts and foreign investors to the firm, and decreases information asymmetries between insiders and outsiders of the firm.
Author: Joseph Denard Reid Publisher: ISBN: Category : Languages : en Pages :
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The recent financial crisis caused fair value relevancy and appropriateness to be called to the forefront of academic research as the subject dominated the media headlines. To date, there is limited research available to adequately understand, interpret and evaluate the benefits and consequences of fair value valuation and related disclosures within a liquid market context. This three paper dissertation contributes to academic literature by providing some evidence of the effects of mandatory disclosure surrounding fair value in an illiquid or highly volatile market. The first paper examines the relationship between mandatory disclosure, implied cost of capital and financial reporting quality. The second paper investigates the effect of the disclosure on liquidity and firm value. Lastly, the third and final paper examines the manufacturing industry sector, an industry severely affected by the financial crisis as it relates to ASC 820-10 and financial reporting quality. Collectively the results indicate that the mandatory disclosure requirement did reduce information asymmetry and provided informational value, however not uniformly for all firms. Furthermore, certain industries experienced more benefit from the disclosure. The results of this study will benefit investors, regulators, auditors and creditors as this information contained in the disclosure can serve as a signal of financial prudence. .
Author: Jeremy Bertomeu
Author: Gill North
Author: Lucrezia Songini
Author: Stefania Veltri
Author: Lino Cinquini
Author: Olga Cucaro
Author: Mark Edward Bagnoli
Author: Francesco De Luca
Author: Michael H. R. Erkens
Author: Joseph Denard Reid