The Interpretation of Information and Corporate Disclosure Strategies
Author: Sunil Dutta
Publisher:
Published: 1998
Total Pages: 88
ISBN-13:
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The Evolution of Corporate Disclosure
Author: Alessandro Ghio
Publisher: Springer Nature
Published: 2020-04-02
Total Pages: 183
ISBN-13: 3030422992
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis 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.
The Disclosure and Assurance of Corporate Social Responsibility
Author: Isabel-María García-Sánchez
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Published: 2019-01-08
Total Pages: 252
ISBN-13: 1527524434
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe 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.
Discretionary Disclosure Strategies in Corporate Narratives
Author: Doris M. Merkl-Davies
Publisher:
Published: 2013
Total Pages: 89
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPrior research assumes that discretionary disclosures either (a) contribute to useful decision making by overcoming information asymmetries between managers and firm outsiders (informational perspective); or (b) constitute opportunistic behavior whereby managers exploit information asymmetries between them and firm outsiders through engaging in biased reporting, i.e. impression management (opportunistic perspective). We consider possible theoretical underpinnings of the two competing positions. We discuss different theories explaining managers' motives to engage in impression management or to provide incremental information. We identify various theories, in particular from behavioral finance and from psychology that explain why investors might be susceptible to managerial impression management. We examine the discretionary disclosure strategies applied by managers in corporate narratives, classifying them into seven categories. This enables a better understanding of the wide range of techniques applied by managers to manage impressions/enhance disclosure quality. We bring together both capital markets and behavioral research on whether discretionary narrative disclosure strategies influence decision making and whether, therefore, they are effective. Finally, we suggest future research opportunities. We propose alternative theories from the accounting, management, and social psychology literature to suggest additional impression management motivations and strategies not previously considered in a financial reporting context. We take different theories and prior research in behavioral finance and psychology to put forward new avenues for studying the effect of discretionary narrative disclosures on users, and to explain why users might be influenced by managerial impression management.
Business Models and Corporate Reporting
Author: Lorenzo Simoni
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2021-09-19
Total Pages: 121
ISBN-13: 1000439542
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book discusses the role of business models in corporate reporting. It illustrates the evolution of non-financial reporting, the importance of business model reporting, and the main conceptualisations of business models. It also offers a methodological contribution to the assessment of business model reporting. Finally, it discusses the main implication of business model reporting for different categories of subjects and some challenges related to this kind of disclosure. Readers will understand the role of business models in the non-financial reporting landscape. They will also gain an understanding of how business models can help users of the annual report contextualise other non-financial items disclosed. However, effective business model reporting implies paying attention to certain features that define its quality. This theme is discussed in the empirical part of the book and in the section devoted to implications for preparers, users, and regulators. As large companies in the EU and the UK have to disclose the business model in the annual report, this book will be of interest to preparers and users of financial statements, regulators involved in the ongoing non-financial regulatory process, and professional bodies. It will also be of interest to academics interested in the investigation of non-financial reporting.
Informal Corporate Disclosure Under Federal Securities Law 2009
Author: Ted Trautmann
Publisher: Wolters Kluwer
Published: 2009-04-01
Total Pages: 3
ISBN-13: 0808021583
DOWNLOAD EBOOKInformal Corporate Disclosure Under Federal Securities Law, 2009 Editionexamines the regulation of informal disclosure -- e.g., press releases,speeches, analyst conference calls, webcasts, and investor roadshows -- asdistinguished from formal, highly structured disclosure in SEC filings. Thecoverage includes discussion of federal securities law, rules and courtdecisions; self-regulatory organization rules for listed companies, andstandards of practice prescribed by the National Investor RelationsInstitute (NIRI).This updated 2009 Edition includes:discussion of the SEC's recent guidance on the use of company web sites,including advice on the sufficiency of web site disclosure as a means ofdissemination under Regulation FD (see ¶1002)liability for hyperlinks to third-party information (see ¶1003)issues presented by the use of summaries and overviews (see ¶1004)concerns related to blogs and online discussion forums (see ¶1009)The new 2009 Edition also examines materiality principlesgoverning quantitative financial disclosures, specifically the recommendationsof the SEC Advisory Committee on Improvements to Financial Reporting,or CIFiR (see ¶¶403 and 1102). In addition, the work covers recentSEC Compliance and Disclosure Interpretations on the Form 8-K reportingobligation triggered by disclosure of certain financial information (see¶1105). Finally, the 2009 Edition includes discussion ofnew NIRI standards for quarterly earnings releases (see ¶1103), thetext of selected portions of those standards (see Appendix), and a timelinefor preparing an earnings release (see Appendix).
The Trend towards Corporate Voluntary Disclosures
Author: Reka Goch
Publisher: GRIN Verlag
Published: 2006-03-03
Total Pages: 31
ISBN-13: 3638475263
DOWNLOAD EBOOKResearch 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. ...
Economics of Accounting
Author: Peter Ove Christensen
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2012-11-28
Total Pages: 599
ISBN-13: 146151133X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis is the softcover version of a title that was released in 2002 and has sold more than 500 copies since then world wide. Examines the fundamentals of the decision-facilitating and decision-influencing role of information in accounting. Emphasises the impact of public and private information on equilibria and investor welfare in capital and product markets.
Effective Company Disclosure in the Digital Age
Author: Gill North
Publisher: Kluwer Law International B.V.
Published: 2015-10-16
Total Pages: 386
ISBN-13: 9041168184
DOWNLOAD EBOOKEffective 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.
Essays on Capital Markets and Corporate Disclosure
Author: Danil A. Borilo
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Published: 2016
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis thesis studies how a firm's disclosure decisions are affected by the interaction between prevailing financial reporting regulation and managerial incentives. Chapter 1 summarizes studies related to this thesis. I focus on rules that require a firm to issue regular financial statements. As a result, the release of some information about a firm's performance and financial condition is inevitable. However, since financial statements do not fully reflect all value-relevant information, a firm's manager can still affect the interpretation of this information via voluntary disclosure. In Chapter 2, I study how reputational concerns of a firm's manager affect her voluntary disclosure decisions. I show that interpretation of both the firm's report and voluntarily disclosed information depend on the timing of the disclosure relative to disclosures made by other firms in the same industry. In Chapter 3, I consider the case when private information of the firm's manager cannot be credibly communicated to outside investors and a mandatory financial report is the only available information channel about firm value. As a result, the noisiness of a financial report will lead investors to overvalue some firms and undervalue others. I show that allowing for misreporting can increase social welfare if a firm must rely on external capital in order to finance its investment opportunities. Overall, my results emphasize the importance of taking into account strategic disclosure decisions of managers for regulators, investors, and analysts.
