Author: Reka Goch Publisher: GRIN Verlag ISBN: 3638475263 Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 31
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Research Paper (undergraduate) from the year 2005 in the subject Business economics - Controlling, grade: 2,0, Schmalkalden University of Applied Sciences, language: English, abstract: Introduction Recent scandals, like the Enron Bankruptcy, undermined the investors trust in the information given by the corporations. Enron, one of the biggest consolidated group in the US and in the world, became famous all over the world by the surprisingly bankruptcy in December of 2001. Even a few weeks before the petition of bankruptcy analyst recommended to buy Enron stock and thousands of investors lost their savings or their pension backups. By creative balancing Enron succeeded to take advantage of gaps in the Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP). Financial data in the annual business report was manipulated so that investors who relied on this information made wrong investment decisions. Likewise investors and analyst trusted in the confirmation of the accounting firm Arthur Andersen & Partner which was authorized to prove the correct balancing of Enron. The Enron Bankruptcy is just one example, many bankruptcies like the ones of Sunbeam, Waste Management or Global Crossing had followed yet. “Creative balancing” gained currency among other listed corporations and the value and the profitability of blue chips were overvalued. Scandals like this emphasize the importance of the given information for the entire stakeholders, critically the investment community, because they have a deep impact on the investment decisions. Corporations are more and more forced to offer corporate voluntary disclosures which fulfill the “call for evidence of activities” (cf. Pricewaterhouse- Coopers, 2000b, p. 1) made by the business environment and to regain public trust. Additionally, the globalization of markets has a strong influence on the corporations’ orientation. More and more corporations become international and listed. Thus, the competition on capital market increases and the constant need for capital requires a better explanation on the business performance. To help investors with their capital allocation decisions, corporations have to provide a more reliable, relevant, and useful information on a voluntary basis. In general, investors should get a better understanding of the corporation by more transparency. So, the traditional reporting in a vast number of corporations, based on financial data, is added by voluntary disclosures with the hope to hasten the process of the stock markets recognition of their corporate value. ...
Author: Isabel-María García-Sánchez Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing ISBN: 1527524434 Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 252
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The essays collected here specifically examine the new trends of sustainability performance and reporting. They provide theoretical argumentation and evidence about sustainability performance, and determinants of its voluntary disclosure and external assurance. The book will interest companies, managers, shareholders, stakeholders and public bodies directly related to sustainability performance, the voluntary disclosure of sustainability information, and the adoption of an external assurance process.
Author: Sanjai Bhagat Publisher: MIT Press ISBN: 9780262524384 Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 138
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An investigation of the relationships among takeovers, takeover defenses, management turnover, corporate performance, corporate capital structure, and corporate ownership performance.
Author: Alessandro Ghio Publisher: Springer Nature ISBN: 3030422992 Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 183
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This book provides a critical analysis of the evolution of corporate disclosure. Building upon prior academic literature, it assesses the most important changes in mandatory corporate disclosure, the growing relevance of social and environmental disclosure, and revolutionary new forms of corporate communication, in particular social media. It also includes empirical analyses that shed further light on the impact of voluntary communication, i.e. social and environmental reporting and corporate social media communication, on managerial and investment decisions. Lastly, it discusses new directions for accounting and corporate governance research on the theoretical and empirical challenges of corporate disclosure. Offering a wealth of relevant and timely advice, the book will help regulators design policies that allow businesses to overcome current and emerging economic, social, and technological challenges.
Author: Jeffrey Hales Publisher: ISBN: Category : Languages : en Pages : 67
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With the advent of social media, individual public opinions about firms can be more easily accessed and aggregated, and recent research suggests that various platforms, such as Twitter, Seeking Alpha, and Estimize, provide information relevant in predicting future corporate disclosures. Rather than focusing on the general public's opinion, we examine a public platform designed to convey insider information - Glassdoor.com, where employees voluntarily share their opinions on a number of issues, including the company's near-term business outlook. Using a sample of approximately 150,000 employee reviews, we extract both employees' explicit assessments of outlook and a measure of their latent outlook derived from factor analysis. We then examine whether the opinions employees share on social media relate to future corporate disclosures. In particular, we find evidence that employee opinions are useful in predicting growth in key income statement information, transitory reporting items (e.g., restructuring charges), earnings surprises, and management forecast news. While voluntary disclosures about firm performance have traditionally come from executives, our evidence suggests that rank-and-file employees are chipping away at upper-level management's exclusive control over that channel.
Author: Khrystyna Bochkay Publisher: ISBN: Category : Languages : en Pages : 0
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In this paper, we examine how the emergence of voluntary disclosure standards can alter the nature of information available to capital market participants. Using industry-specific dictionaries of sustainability terms contained in voluntary disclosure standards developed by the Sustainability Accounting Standards Board (SASB), we find a significant increase in earnings call sustainability disclosures following the release of SASB standards, particularly for firms that had little or no coverage of sustainability issues historically. This trend begins around the time when SASB released a provisional disclosure standard for a given company's industry and continues in the years after. We also find a stronger impact of SASB standards on sustainability disclosures of firms operating in industries with high uncertainty around sustainability reporting. Overall, these results inform our understanding of the conditions under which standards created in response to market forces are likely to affect voluntary disclosures and communication norms.
Author: G.K.C Jeewantha Publisher: ISBN: Category : Languages : en Pages : 0
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Stakeholders' dissatisfaction with traditional mandatory financial reporting has led to increase the demand for more comprehensive voluntary information disclosures. As such, the corporate disclosure practices in Sri Lanka have changed dramatically in recent years. The purpose of this study is to identify the drivers of corporate voluntary disclosures in Sri Lankan listed companies. This study provides new insights about voluntary disclosures in Sri Lankan context since few studies have been conducted. Sixty non-financial companies were selected based on market capitalization for the study purpose. Company annual reports from 2009 to 2014 were scrutinized to find the voluntary disclosures. Panel regression was utilized due to the nature of time series and cross sectional. This study demonstrated that the level of voluntary disclosure in Sri Lankan listed companies is lower compared to other emerging countries. It is confirmed that the size of firm was the more significant factor in determining voluntary disclosure practices in Sri Lanka. Moreover, block holders negatively influenced to the voluntary disclosures in Sri Lankan listed companies. However, corporate governance variables do not have any impact to the voluntary disclosure practices. Furthermore, profitability, leverage, industry category are not influencing voluntary disclosure practices. This study has found that auditors' duty has been limited to financial statements in Sri Lankan listed companies. The outcome of this study would encourage in developing standards for the disclose of information in annual reports and also persuade corporate managers to reform disclosure practices.
Author: Sheng-Syan Chen Publisher: ISBN: Category : Languages : en Pages :
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We examine whether a firm's voluntary disclosures, proxied by management earnings forecasts, affect its innovation activity. A firm making more disclosures generates fewer patents and lower-quantity patents. Enactment of SOX is applied as a natural experiment for an exogenous shock to voluntary disclosure. Corporate innovation is reduced for accelerated filers, especially after SOX becomes effective. Nondedicated institutional ownership, R&D spillover, and rival firms' innovation are higher for accelerated filers after SOX. There is more of a negative effect of voluntary disclosure on innovation activity when product markets are highly competitive, industry information diffusion is speedy, and disclosures are more informative.
Author: Lisa Goh Publisher: ISBN: Category : Languages : en Pages : 61
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In this paper, we study voluntary political spending disclosure, a widespread yet relatively unexplored corporate voluntary disclosure practice. Using an index created by the CPA-Zicklin Center that measures the level of voluntary political spending disclosure for S&P 500 firms, we examine firm-level characteristics associated with such disclosures, and their importance. We find that firms with greater political expenditures, direct political connections, higher investor activism, better corporate social responsibility performance and governance, and more industry competition tend to have a higher level of political spending disclosure. We also find that a higher level of political spending disclosure is positively associated with both the number of institutional investors and the proportion of shares owned by institutional investors, particularly socially responsible institutional investors, after controlling for the quality of other disclosures. The level of political spending disclosure is also associated with a higher analyst following, lower forecast error, and smaller forecast dispersion. Finally, we find that political spending disclosure enhances the positive relationship between annual corporate political spending and firm financial performance. Together, these results are consistent with the view that voluntary political spending disclosure helps align managers' interests with those of shareholders.
Author: Phillip C. Stocken Publisher: Now Publishers ISBN: 9781601986924 Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 0
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Reviews the analytic accounting disclosure literature to identify guidelines for disclosing financial information, factors that investors may recognize, and characteristics of useful information that policy-makers and regulators should consider when specifying what information sets firms should disclose
Author: Reka Goch
Author: Isabel-María García-Sánchez
Author: Sanjai Bhagat
Author: Alessandro Ghio
Author: Jeffrey Hales
Author: Khrystyna Bochkay
Author: G.K.C Jeewantha
Author: Sheng-Syan Chen
Author: Lisa Goh
Author: Phillip C. Stocken