Lapointe-Antunes, Pascale; Cormier, Denis; Magnan, Michel; … - In: European Accounting Review 15 (2006) 4, pp. 465-505
This paper examines whether voluntary disclosure by Swiss firms constrains the use of discretionary accruals to smooth earnings, and explores the effect of voluntary disclosure on the value relevance of earnings. We focus on Swiss firms because Switzerland's financial reporting system provides...