Barth et al. (2017) (BCCV) show that firms with higher levels of compliance with Integrated Reporting (<IR>) principles are associated with higher levels of firm value. However, according to disclosure processing costs theory, the positive association may not hold for high levels of <IR> disclosures. We...</ir></ir>

This paper examines economic consequences of a 2006 Securities and Exchange Commission regulation that mandated public firms to disclose their governance policies on related-party transactions (hereafter RPTs). Employing hand-collected RPT data for S&P 1500 firms, we find that the initiation of...

Disclosure standards mandate the quantitative disclosure of hedging-instrument related risks but not the disclosure of hedged item related risks. We examine how a match (mismatch) in formats, caused by making quantitative (qualitative) hedged item disclosures alongside quantitative hedging...

This paper examines whether public bank managers change both the composition and classification of their investment portfolios after SFAS 157. We first show that non-agency mortgage-backed securities (MBSNA) are the asset class most likely to be measured using level 3 inputs, which are based on...

Starting from 2006, UK listed companies are required to analyse their performance by using Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) in specific sections of their annual reports and the UK Accounting Standard Board (ASB) provides companies with guidelines for the best practice regarding KPI disclosure....

Theory suggests that increased levels of corporate disclosure lead to a decrease in cost of equity via the reduction of estimation risk. We examine compliance levels with IFRS 3 and IAS 36 mandated goodwill related disclosure and their association with firms' implied cost of equity capital...

In the presence of litigation facing suppliers, the supply-chain relationship is at risk. Suppliers with principal customers (dependent suppliers) have a higher concentration of sales to customers, and they are more at risk relative to suppliers without principal customers (non-dependent...

This study exploits the implementation of IRS Schedule UTP to examine how linking tax return disclosures to financial reporting for income taxes affects firms' reporting decisions. Using confidential tax return data and public financial statement data, I find that after imposition of Schedule...

Prior research has documented that the market responds to quarterly updates to annual risk factor disclosures at the time of release, suggesting quarterly risk factor updates provide informational value to investors. In this study, we examine whether future returns are associated with quarterly...

This paper examines some novel corporate governance-based determinants of risk disclosures among index listed Finnish companies. Firms' risk disclosures are analysed in terms of their quantity and coverage. We focus on two board characteristics not examined in prior related literature: (1)...