Download or read book A Survey on the Dissemination of Earnings Information by Large Firms written by Randy D. Jorgensen and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 8 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Studies of quarterly earnings announcements by firms typically focus on the quality of the announcement or the financial impact of the announcement. Few studies focus on the method and timing of announcements of quarterly earnings, a question of increased interest since the enactment of the SEC's Regulation Fair Disclosure (Regulation FD). Regulation FD requires that material information about a company be disseminated widely and simultaneously to the public. A survey of the Fortune 500 firms to investigate how they communicate quarterly earnings data to the investment community both before and after Regulation FD indicates that most respondents have broadened their use of conference calls. Post-Regulation FD, a significant majority of Fortune 500 companies seek to reach a wider audience by broadcasting their calls via both telephone and Internet; telephone had been the primary medium before Regulation FD. While more firm members participate in conference calls, and rebroadcasts of the calls are more available outside the firm, access to the post-call question-and-answer period remains restricted.
Download or read book The Handbook of Financial Communication and Investor Relations written by Alexander V. Laskin and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2017-09-14 with total page 708 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first book to offer a global look at the state-of-the-art thinking and practice in investor relations and financial communication Featuring contributions from leading scholars and practitioners in financial communication and related fields—including public relations, corporate communications, finance, and accounting— this volume in the critically acclaimed “Handbooks in Communication and Media” seriesprovides readers with a comprehensive, up-to-date picture of investor relations and financial communications as they are practiced in North America and around the world. The Handbook of Financial Communication and Investor Relations provides an overview of the past, present, and future of investor relations and financial communications as a profession. It identifies the central issues of contemporary investor relations and financial communications practice, including financial information versus non-financial information, intangibles, risk, value, and growth. Authors address key topics of concern to contemporary practitioners, such as socially responsible investing, corporate governance, shareholder activism, ethics, and professionalism. In addition, the book arms readers with metrics and proven techniques for reliably measuring and evaluating the effectiveness of investor relations and financial communications. Bringing together the most up-to-date research on investor relations and financial communication and the insights and expertise of an all-star team of practitioners, The Handbook of Financial Communication and Investor Relations: Explores how the profession is practiced in various regions of the globe, including North America, South America, Europe, the Middle East, India, Australia, and other areas Provides a unique look at financial communication as it is practiced beyond the corporate world, including in families, the medical profession, government, and the not-for-profit sector Addresses “big-picture” strategies as well as specific tactics for financial communication during crises, the use of social media, dealing with shareholder activism, integrated reporting and CSR, and more This book makes an ideal reference resource for undergrads and graduate students, scholars, and practitioners studying or researching investor relations and financial communication across schools of communication, journalism, business, and management. It also offers professionals an up-to-date, uniquely holistic look at best practices in financial communication investor relations worldwide.
Download or read book Disseminating Earnings Disclosures Via Twitter written by Elias Riegel and published by . This book was released on 2022 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Firms have increasingly used social media such as Twitter to disseminate corporate disclosures, particularly since the regulation of these platforms by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) in 2013. However, research on social media dissemination is still limited. Even though a few studies have already examined this topic, their findings are not generalizable due to their sole focus on the United States (US), the United Kingdom (UK), and Australia, countries with similar high disclosure levels. The following dissertation expands this research by investigating Twitter dissemination in Germany, a country with a considerably lower disclosure level than the countries mentioned above. In particular, this study examines (i) how the prevalence of Twitter as a dissemination channel has developed over time in Germany, (ii) what type of firms apply this dissemination channel and, (iii) how this dissemination channel affects information asymmetries between firms and investors. The empirical analysis is based on 2,048 earnings disclosure tweets disseminated by German-listed firms between 2009 and 2019. The descriptive findings show that in 2009 only 7.5 percent of these firms used Twitter for earnings dissemination, while by 2019, this proportion had increased eightfold to 62 percent. Thus, Twitter has become a standard dissemination channel for earnings disclosures among German firms. However, not all firms use Twitter to the same extent. Instead, the logistic regression indicates that firms with a larger size, greater profitability, increased valuation risk, lower investor sophistication, and stronger Twitter commitment are more likely to disseminate earnings on this platform. Further, the multivariate regressions indicate that Twitter dissemination enables firms to reduce information asymmetries, whereby this effect is more pronounced for less visible firms. The results of this dissertation broadly contribute to current corporate disclosure literature. The findings are also of practical relevance to firms and retail investors when deciding whether to use or not to use Twitter.
Download or read book Rhetoric in financial discourse written by Belinda Crawford Camiciottoli and published by Rodopi. This book was released on 2013-11-10 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Financial disclosure has become a crucial component of corporate communication. Through this process, companies aim to provide information and project an image of trustworthiness in response to on-going ethical concerns in the world of finance. Rhetoric in financial discourse provides new insights into how companies communicate with key stakeholders, not only to boost transparency, but also to attract investment. The book offers an in-depth linguistic analysis of the rhetorical dimension of financial communication. It focuses on two technology-mediated genres which are widely used, yet remain largely unexplored from a rhetorical perspective: earnings presentations and earnings releases. Using an innovative methodological approach, the book shows how corporate speakers and writers use distinctive rhetorical strategies to achieve their professional goals. It includes a practical discussion of how the findings can be exploited to develop state-of-the-art corporate communication courses and to improve the effectiveness of financial disclosure in professional settings. The book contributes to an enhanced understanding of the language of finance, representing a discourse community that involves and impacts the lives of many people around the world. It will be of interest to several communities of practice, including language researchers, discourse analysts, corpus linguists, finance and communication academics, students of business and finance, and professionals of financial communication. Belinda Crawford Camiciottoli is Associate Professor of English Language and Linguistics at the University of Pisa. Her research focuses on business discourse in both academic and corporate settings. She has published in leading journals, including Discourse & Communication, Business Communication Quarterly and English for Specific Purposes. She is the author of The Language of Business Studies Lectures (2007). She has taught business and organizational communication courses for universities based in Italy, the US and the UAE.
Download or read book Challenges and Opportunities in the Digital Era written by Salah A. Al-Sharhan and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-10-23 with total page 634 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book constitutes the refereed conference proceedings of the 17th IFIP WG 6.11 Conference on e-Business, e-Services and e-Society, I3E 201, held in Kuwait City, Kuwait, in October/November 2018. The 65 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 99 submissions. Topics of interest include, amongst others, the following: social media; information systems; marketing and communications; management and operations; public administration; economics, sociology, and psychology; e-finance, e-banking, and e-accounting; computer science and computer engineering; and teaching and learning.
Download or read book Management Earnings Forecasts written by Hwa Deuk Yi and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Corporate Disclosure written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Government Operations. Subcommittee on Budgeting, Management, and Expenditures and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 558 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Do Journalists Help Investors Analyze Firms Earnings News written by Nicholas M. Guest and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I examine whether the market's reaction to firms' earnings news varies with analysis (or editorial content) produced by financial journalists. A series of natural experiments at The Wall Street Journal (WSJ) suggests that WSJ articles increase trading volume and improve price discovery at S&P 500 earnings announcements. The effects are stronger when an article contains more original analysis and less content reproduced from the firm's press release. This evidence refines inferences from prior studies that find media dissemination, but not analysis, makes the market's earnings response more efficient. Instead, my paper suggests media analysis also enhances investors' trading decisions by improving their understanding of earnings news, albeit for a limited set of large firms. In other words, journalists' analysis efforts provide value to readers, which helps explain the continued production of costly earnings-related analysis amid increasing pressure from low-cost information sources.
Download or read book The Evolution of Corporate Disclosure written by Alessandro Ghio and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-04-02 with total page 183 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a critical analysis of the evolution of corporate disclosure. Building upon prior academic literature, it assesses the most important changes in mandatory corporate disclosure, the growing relevance of social and environmental disclosure, and revolutionary new forms of corporate communication, in particular social media. It also includes empirical analyses that shed further light on the impact of voluntary communication, i.e. social and environmental reporting and corporate social media communication, on managerial and investment decisions. Lastly, it discusses new directions for accounting and corporate governance research on the theoretical and empirical challenges of corporate disclosure. Offering a wealth of relevant and timely advice, the book will help regulators design policies that allow businesses to overcome current and emerging economic, social, and technological challenges.
Download or read book Role of Giant Corporations written by United States. Congress. Senate. Select Committee on Small Business. Subcommittee on Monopoly and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 888 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Multinationality Earnings Efficiency and Market Considerations written by Ahmed Riahi-Belkaoui and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2001-12-30 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The impact of multinationality on the operations of a firm is clear and strong. Riahi-Belkaoui shows how it affects the known relationships between earnings, efficiency, disclosure, and market valuation by its role as a dependent, moderating, intervening antecedant or consequent variable. Its impact can be felt, for example, in relationships and phenomena such as the timeliness and the informativeness of earnings, the underreaction of securities analysts, post-earnings announcement drifts, and the level and quality of disclosure. An understanding of multinationality in the earnings-disclosure-efficiency-market valuation relationship can also be used by accountants and researchers in their daily activities, and by corporate executives in multinational organizational decision making. The result is a useful, probing exploration for academics and practitioners alike.
Download or read book Statistical Disclosure Control written by Anco Hundepool and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2012-07-05 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A reference to answer all your statistical confidentiality questions. This handbook provides technical guidance on statistical disclosure control and on how to approach the problem of balancing the need to provide users with statistical outputs and the need to protect the confidentiality of respondents. Statistical disclosure control is combined with other tools such as administrative, legal and IT in order to define a proper data dissemination strategy based on a risk management approach. The key concepts of statistical disclosure control are presented, along with the methodology and software that can be used to apply various methods of statistical disclosure control. Numerous examples and guidelines are also featured to illustrate the topics covered. Statistical Disclosure Control: Presents a combination of both theoretical and practical solutions Introduces all the key concepts and definitions involved with statistical disclosure control. Provides a high level overview of how to approach problems associated with confidentiality. Provides a broad-ranging review of the methods available to control disclosure. Explains the subtleties of group disclosure control. Features examples throughout the book along with case studies demonstrating how particular methods are used. Discusses microdata, magnitude and frequency tabular data, and remote access issues. Written by experts within leading National Statistical Institutes. Official statisticians, academics and market researchers who need to be informed and make decisions on disclosure limitation will benefit from this book.
Download or read book Report of the Advisory Committee on Corporate Disclosure to the Securities and Exchange Commission written by United States. Securities and Exchange Commission. Advisory Committee on Corporate Disclosure and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 890 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Voluntary Disclosure and Increases in Earnings written by Gregory Smith Miller and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Who Reports Earnings When Reporting is Optional The Market for New Franchises written by Renee A. Price and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Most studies of voluntary disclosure examine the securities market, where voluntary disclosure is incremental to the requirements of highly developed reporting standards. In this paper, I examine the market for new franchises, where there is no requirement that potential franchise investors be given information relevant to earnings at the individual franchise level. The market for new franchises provides an opportunity to observe the outcome of managers' assessment of whether to disclose or withhold earnings information when that choice is not dominated by a disclosure requirement. I am able to observe firm and contract features associated with earnings disclosure in a present-day unregulated environment.Approximately twenty-six percent of franchisors volunteer earnings-related information. I find that disclosing franchisors impose greater investment risk on new franchisees in the form of 1) higher contractual payments and 2) greater product demand uncertainty. Demand uncertainty is greater when franchisees are granted a territory--rather than a site, or when franchisors are expanding to foreign markets. I also observe that larger franchise systems, which collect data from more locations and therefore have more precise proprietary information, are less likely to disclose. This finding is notable in that it is contrary to what has been observed in the securities market, where large firms are associated with more volunary disclosure. The study suggests a possible role for initial disclosure regulation in that it may cause large firms to release proprietary information they would otherwise retain.
Download or read book Federal Register written by and published by . This book was released on 1979-03 with total page 1466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Effective Company Disclosure in the Digital Age written by Gill North and published by Kluwer Law International B.V.. This book was released on 2015-10-16 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Effective corporate reporting and disclosure are critical in financial markets to promote vigorous competition, optimal performance, and transparency. This book examines whether existing disclosure frameworks in eight countries with the world's most significant securities exchanges achieve these objectives, and then, drawing on extensive empirical findings, identifies the policies and practices that contribute most to improving the overall quality of listed company reporting and communication. Contending that public disclosure of listed company information is an essential precondition to the long-term efficient operation of financial markets, the book provides analysis of such issues and topics as the following: - arguments for and against mandatory disclosure regimes; - key principles of periodic and continuous disclosure regulation; - tensions between direct and indirect investment in financial markets; - assumptions concerning the need to maintain a privileged role for financial intermediaries; - intermediary, analyst, and research incentives; - protection of individual investors; - selective disclosure; - disclosure of bad news; - the role of accounting standards; - public access to company briefings; - long term performance reporting and analysis; and - company reporting developments. A significant portion of the book provides an overview of disclosure regulation and practice in the United States, Canada, Germany, the United Kingdom, Japan, Hong Kong, Australia, and Singapore. A highly informative survey looks at company reports, disclosures, and websites of large listed companies, including Microsoft, Citigroup, Teck Resources, Deutsche Bank, BP, Sony, PetroChina Company, BHP Billiton, and Singapore Telecommunications. The book discusses common disclosure issues that arise across jurisdictions, provides valuable insights on the efficacy of existing disclosure regulation and practice, and highlights the important principles, processes, and practices that underpin best practice company disclosure frameworks. It will be welcomed by company boards and executives and their counsel, as well as by policymakers and scholars in the areas of corporate, securities, banking and financial law, accounting, economics and finance.
