This study examines the impact of annual report disclosures on analysts? forecasts for a sample of firms listed on the Stock Exchange of Singapore (SES). We examine the relation between the level of corporate disclosure and accuracy of analysts? earnings forecasts, dispersion in analysts?...

Prior international studies that investigate the relative usefulness of accounting information have focused either on the incremental information content of earnings reconciliation, or the relative information content of accounting numbers across countries. Using a sample of 13 countries, this...

This paper examines whether marked-to-market values of energy trading assets and liabilities of companies that enter into energy contracts are related to market value of equity. The Emerging Issues Task Force of the Financial Accounting Standards Board ruled in November 2002 to ban the use of...

This paper examines the quality of financial reporting of Chinese firms cross-listed in the United States, Hong Kong and noncross-listed Chinese firms. We examine quality of financial reporting based on measures of earnings management, timely loss recognition and price-earnings association. We...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine whether both country disclosure environment and firm-level disclosures are associated with cross-listing in the USA or London or otherwise. Design/methodology/approach – The authors test the association using a sample of Asia-Pacific firms...

Financial restatements may affect core earnings if the restatements involve revenue, cost of sales or ongoing expenses. Hence, restatements may impact information content of earnings. Using the earnings response coefficient (ERC) as a measure of the information content of earnings, we document a...

In this study, we look at the effects of using different offering methods and examine whether the auction system is a better way of rationing IPOs in the sense of reducing the degree of underpricing. Preliminary findings show that IPOs offered via the auction system appear to have lower...