The objective of this research is to investigate the textual construction of annual reports (MD&A) of Italian listed companies. The paper builds on methodologies developed in prior empirical studies of annual reports readability and content analysis. Two dimensions are investigated: a) text ease...

Recent corporate financial scandals show that managers, financial intermediaries and financial statement users are unable to assess correctly the information disclosed in firms' annual reports. In this paper, we present empirical evidence consistent with the use of securitisation gains by...

Intellectual capital (IC) is considered as the intangible resources that help in value creation of the company. IC consists of three categories: internal capital (INC), external capital (EXC) and human capital (HUC). This paper aims to examine the academics' perception of the usefulness of IC...

The purpose of this paper is to examine how users of company annual reports in the emerging market of Egypt view those reports, and to compare the results with the findings of Mirshekary and Saudagaran (2005) in Iran. Each study is based on a survey of different but comparable user groups in the...