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identify manager reporting goals and understand the determinants of nonverbal behaviors in financial communications …
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This paper reports the results of an empirical investigation into the intellectual capital reporting (ICR) practices of … corporate reporting media for their IC content. It finds major differences between the intellectual capital elements reported in …
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We examine whether the complexity of mandatory accounting disclosures prompts managers to voluntarily disclose adjusted measures of actual earnings performance. We also explore whether this disclosure practice reflects attempts to obfuscate or to mitigate informational problems arising from...
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Using text-based analysis of 10-K MD&A disclosures, we find that fraudulent firms produce verbal disclosure that is abnormal relative to strong counterfactuals. This abnormal text predicts fraud out of sample, has a verbal factor structure, and can be interpreted to reveal likely mechanisms that...
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reporting emphasis assigned to these metrics. On the other hand, we find no evidence that firms use pro forma earnings to … significantly less likely to use pro forma earnings disclosures and to assign reporting emphasis than mandatory adopters. Taken …
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and financial reporting quality (FRQ). We argue that CSR companies behave differently in preparing financial accounting … reports. Recent literature supports this theme, providing two distinct hypotheses: transparent financial reporting and …
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. We find that a large number of employers misreport as evidenced by their reporting a set of disclosures that in concert … considerations: firms involved in an ESG controversy are more likely to report perfect gender statistics, and firms reporting no gap … in their median pay receive higher social pillar ESG ratings. Our results suggest that gender pay gap reporting mandates …
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I examine whether company-implemented disclosure committees help to improve non-GAAP reporting quality. I find that … receive comment letters about non-GAAP reporting, disclosure committees can help to improve non-GAAP reporting quality … experts and disclosure committee legal experts produces the strongest effect on non-GAAP reporting quality. In sum, my …
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Firms can disclose social information via different channels such as SEC filings, stand-alone sustainability reports, or financial reports. Based on the notion that investors interpret such disclosures from a risk perspective, we analyse how disclosure via each of the three channels relates to...
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In recent years, regulators have considered several initiatives to lower the threshold for disclosing risks to investors. We examine two ways in which disclosing more risks can actually lower investors' perceptions of risk. Utilizing an experiment, we find evidence of two unintended consequences...
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