We use hand-collected data for a sample of large European firms to investigate the influence of countries' institutional and economic factors on managers' non-GAAP disclosures. We find that managers are more likely to use non-GAAP measures to meet or beat earnings benchmarks that GAAP earnings...

We study the market's reaction to the disclosure of non-GAAP earnings measures that are combined with high impression management. We construct an impression management score that captures several communication techniques that managers often use to positively bias investors' perceptions of firm's...

We study the market's reaction to the disclosure of non-GAAP earnings measures that are combined with high impression management. We construct an impression management score that captures several communication techniques that managers often use to positively bias investors' perceptions of firm's...

We examine whether investors’ commitment to socially responsible investment principles influences the public disclosure of environmental, social, and governance (ESG) issues of their investee firms. We find that following institutional investors’ public commitment to the United Nations...

This article will describe the interactive sculpture Arbor in conceptual and operational terms, analyzing the relation developed with users, peering into the technology and the interfaces installed, checking the elapsed interventions and anticipating possible exploits. Arbor, due to its original...

The recent increase in the usefulness of earnings announcements is associated with the disclosure of income statements (Francis et al., 2002) and non-GAAP financial measures (Collins et al., 2005). This paper extends these results by investigating the disclosure and informativeness of non-GAAP...

The purpose of this paper is to synthesize insights from existing research on the disclosure of non-GAAP earnings, from an international point of view, and suggest several avenues for future research in this area. The paper also examines how different regulators and accounting standard setters...

In this article we study the determinants of (i) audit services' public procurement criteria, and (ii) the audit fees of Portuguese municipalities. Our dataset is unique, resulting from merging new survey data with data that is not usually publicly available. We find that the majority of...

This paper investigates the quality and efficiency of corporate annual reports disclosures in malevolent environments, by analyzing the annual reports of firms in the Indian automobile industry during the global recession period (2008 through 2012). The study is based on the content analysis of...

Corporate social responsibility (CSR) disclosures are becoming more prevalent among firms. We investigate the predisposition of firms to disclose CSR information and find that firms are likely to disclose more in countries with: better investor protection, higher levels of democracy, more...