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To increase investor awareness of the sensitivity of financial statements to the methods, assumptions, and estimates underlying their preparation, the Securities and Exchange Commission proposed that firms include disclosures about critical accounting policies in their 10-Ks. Using a large...
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markets. We expect these bank holding companies were among the companies that the Division of Corporate Finance targeted. We …
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This study examines the effect of the mandatory adoption of International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) on … frequency of management earnings forecasts following mandatory IFRS adoption, consistent with the notion that IFRS adoption …-adoption. We then propose and test three channels through which IFRS adoption could alter firms' disclosure incentives: improved …
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We analyze the first quarter 2007 10-Q filings of 348 Samp;P 500 calendar year-end firms to provide evidence concerning the levels of, and changes in, unrecognized tax benefits (UTBs) resulting from the adoption of FASB Interpretation No. 48 (FIN 48). We draw the following conclusions. First,...
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This paper seeks to explore whether voluntary disclosure level affects the value relevance of accounting information from an investor's perspective on Kuwait Stock Exchange (KSE). Based on the assumption that an increased focus on the informational needs of investors should increase the value...
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This study examines the impact of voluntary environmental disclosure on the cost of equity capital and firm value, and on the public perception about a firm's environmental performance. A salient feature of the study is that our analysis controls for corporate environmental performance using...
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This paper examines the economic benefits associated with textual attributes and the external assurance of integrated reporting (IR), an innovative form of corporate disclosure that connects financial and environmental, social and governance (ESG) information in a single report. We investigate...
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This paper considers the impact of UK practices with respect to the measurement and disclosure of intangible assets, focusing on RD activities. We first update prior UK work relating RD activities to market prices. Second, given the clearly identified role of disclosure outside of the financial...
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