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Reporting Standards (IFRS) adoption on the information content of earnings announcements in Italy. To identify the effect of … this regulation, we use a treatment (i.e., Italy) and a benchmark sample of IFRS countries that vary in the adoption of the … releases. Our findings suggest that the inclusion of detailed IFRS financial statements in earnings announcements increased …
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This monograph provides a thorough review of earnings quality issues and analysis. Its primary objectives are to help gain a deep understanding of earnings quality and facilitate the development of comprehensive, granular, and contextual earnings quality indicators and analyses. While there are...
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This teaching guide is based on a comprehensive survey as well as in-depth interviews of Chief Financial Officers (CFOs). We ask the CFOs about the definition and drivers of earnings quality, with a special emphasis on the prevalence and detection of earnings misrepresentation. CFOs believe that...
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examining why French traded corporations use pro forma reporting in their annual press releases to announce earnings …
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This study examines the incremental information in loss firms' non-GAAP earnings disclosures relative to GAAP earnings. Using a large sample obtained through textual analysis and hand-collection, we posit and find that loss firms' non-GAAP earnings exclusions offset the low informativeness of...
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We examine analysts' GAAP earnings forecasts and illustrate their usefulness in two prominent research settings. First, we find that the availability of GAAP forecasts has increased dramatically since 2003, and they are now available for most I/B/E/S-covered firms. Next, we utilize GAAP...
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-GAAP reporting to the nature of the discussion of GAAP metrics in the narrative portion of earnings announcements. Our results also …
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We suggest that the failure of investors to distinguish between an earnings component's autocorrelation coefficient (unconditional persistence) and the marginal contribution of that component's persistence to the persistence of earnings (conditional persistence) provides a partial explanation to...
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Different from prior studies which discussed the relationship between GAAP and pro forma earnings from the informativeness perspective, this study presents a detailed discussion about the importance of presentation arrangements of pro forma disclosures. The results show that managers are able to...
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Prior studies find that delayed earnings announcements tend to communicate unfavorable news, and investors react negatively when firms delay earnings announcements. However, these findings do not explain why investors discount delayed earnings, even after controlling for the earnings news, and...
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