Download or read book The Effect of Exemption from Mandatory Disclosure to the IRS on Firm Value and Firm Behavior written by Norman Anthony Massel and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Effect of Exemption from Mandatory Disclosure to the IRS on Firm Value and Firm Behavior written by Norman Anthony Massel and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Tax on Unrelated Business Income of Exempt Organizations written by United States. Internal Revenue Service and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Model Rules of Professional Conduct written by American Bar Association. House of Delegates and published by American Bar Association. This book was released on 2007 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Model Rules of Professional Conduct provides an up-to-date resource for information on legal ethics. Federal, state and local courts in all jurisdictions look to the Rules for guidance in solving lawyer malpractice cases, disciplinary actions, disqualification issues, sanctions questions and much more. In this volume, black-letter Rules of Professional Conduct are followed by numbered Comments that explain each Rule's purpose and provide suggestions for its practical application. The Rules will help you identify proper conduct in a variety of given situations, review those instances where discretionary action is possible, and define the nature of the relationship between you and your clients, colleagues and the courts.
Download or read book The Effect of Mandatory Disclosure on Market Inefficiencies written by John L. Campbell and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 51 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Prior research finds that unrealized gains/losses on cash flow hedges are negatively associated with future earnings, and that investors and analysts fail to anticipate this association. These studies speculate that this mispricing is due to either poor derivatives disclosures or the accounting model for cash flow hedges. We examine whether enhanced mandatory derivatives disclosures set forth in FAS 161 improve users' understanding of firms' hedging activities and offer three main findings. First, we find that this mispricing does not persist after FAS 161. Second, we find that the correction of mispricing is greatest when disclosure might help investors most. Finally, we find that analyst forecast accuracy improves after FAS 161. Overall, our results suggest that the enhanced mandatory derivative disclosures required by FAS 161 improved users' understanding of the effects of derivative and hedging activities on future firm performance and firm value - and consequently mitigated investor mispricing.
Download or read book Farmer s Tax Guide written by and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Why People Pay Taxes written by Joel Slemrod and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Experts discuss strategies for curtailing tax evasion
Download or read book Complying with the telemarketing sales rule written by and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 62 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Effect of Firm and Country Characteristics on Mandatory Disclosure Compliance written by Sónia Lucas and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Our study investigates the role of firm and country characteristics in determining the level of compliance with mandatory disclosure requirements. We also examine whether the role of firm characteristics hold across different country environments. Our empirical study relies on European Union listed firms included on the STOXX Europe 600 Index and on their level of compliance with IFRS 3, Business Combinations disclosure requirements. Our results demonstrate that both firm and country characteristics develop a significant task in explaining the level of compliance with mandatory disclosure requirements. They confirm that firms located in a common-law country have the strongest, and firms located in a French-civil-law country the weakest, level of compliance with IFRS 3 disclosure requirements, with firms located in a Scandinavian- and German-civil-law country placed in the middle. Our findings also suggest that return on assets is the main determinant of the level of compliance with IFRS 3 disclosure requirements in the group of common-law plus Scandinavian- and German-civil-law countries, while leverage is the main determinant in the group of French-civil-law countries.
Download or read book Fair Value Measurements Disclosure Mandatory Adoption Valuation and Disclosure Effects written by Joseph Denard Reid and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The recent financial crisis caused fair value relevancy and appropriateness to be called to the forefront of academic research as the subject dominated the media headlines. To date, there is limited research available to adequately understand, interpret and evaluate the benefits and consequences of fair value valuation and related disclosures within a liquid market context. This three paper dissertation contributes to academic literature by providing some evidence of the effects of mandatory disclosure surrounding fair value in an illiquid or highly volatile market. The first paper examines the relationship between mandatory disclosure, implied cost of capital and financial reporting quality. The second paper investigates the effect of the disclosure on liquidity and firm value. Lastly, the third and final paper examines the manufacturing industry sector, an industry severely affected by the financial crisis as it relates to ASC 820-10 and financial reporting quality. Collectively the results indicate that the mandatory disclosure requirement did reduce information asymmetry and provided informational value, however not uniformly for all firms. Furthermore, certain industries experienced more benefit from the disclosure. The results of this study will benefit investors, regulators, auditors and creditors as this information contained in the disclosure can serve as a signal of financial prudence. .
Download or read book Firm Value Effects of Targeted Disclosure Regulation written by Katharina Hombach and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 70 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We study the reputational costs of targeted disclosure regulation - disclosure requirements aimed at policy objectives outside of securities regulators' traditional missions. This emerging type of disclosure regulation empowers civil society to deter firms' illicit actions. Our setting is the SEC's extraction payments disclosure rule, which requires oil and gas firms to publish details about their payments to host governments. Consistent with reputational costs imposed on affected firms, our event-study results document that the rule's negative effect on firm value is stronger where greater reputational risk makes firms more vulnerable to public pressure. Our qualitative field evidence suggests that reputational costs arise because the required disclosures facilitate pressure groups' campaigning. These findings are robust to several alternative explanations and research design choices.
Download or read book General Explanation of the Tax Reform Act of 1976 written by United States. Congress. Joint Committee on Taxation and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 700 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Examination of Returns Appeal Rights and Claims for Refund written by United States. Internal Revenue Service and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 8 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Causes and Consequences of Aggressive Financial Reporting Policies written by Patricia M. Dechow and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 31 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The objective of this paper is to investigate the effect of firms' information disclosure strategy on firm value. Existing literature has aruged that a firm's disclosure policy can affect firm value. For example, Healy and Palepu (1993) and Lev (1992) argue that management that build a reputation for reliable and timely financial disclosure will reduce information asymmetry problems. This in turn facilitates the firm's ability to issue new capital. In this paper, instead of examining firms that have built reputations for reliable financial disclosures, we examine the converse set of firms. We investigate firms that adopt aggressive financial reporting policies aimed at delaying or hiding bad news concerning their economic circumstances. We investigate two aspects of these firms' choice of disclosure strategy. First, we investigate why the management of these firms choose this strategy and second, we investigate the costs these firms face after they are discovered to have provided unreliable or untimely financial disclosures."--Page 1.
Download or read book Essays on the Outcomes Incentives and Regulations of Disclosure written by Joshua Alan Lee and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 163 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: My dissertation examines the outcomes, incentives, and regulations surrounding the voluntary and mandatory disclosure of information by public firms. It contains three chapters. Using earnings conference calls as a prevalent setting to examine voluntary disclosure incentives and outcomes, Chapter 1 examines the market response to firms' scripting answers to questions they expect to receive during the question and answer (Q & A) session of the conference call. I hypothesize that firms script their Q & A responses when future performance is poor to avoid disclosing information that can be used in litigation against the firm or as a means of withholding bad news from investors. I develop a measure of Q & A scripting and find evidence that investors react negatively to scripted Q & A.I also find negative returns in the quarter following scripted Q & A suggesting that investors do not fully incorporate the negative signal into the stock price at the time of the conference call. Lastly, I provide evidence of a negative association between Q & A scripting and unexpected earnings for the two quarters following the conference call, suggesting that the negative reaction to scripted calls is warranted given the realization of negative future outcomes. Chapter 2 then focuses on the incentives for firms to provide disclosures prior to raising capital in seasoned equity offerings. Seasoned equity offerings involve significant information asymmetry between the firm and potential investors. Firms can reduce information asymmetry and the cost of obtaining financing by disclosing detailed plans for how the offering proceeds will be used to generate a return for investors. However, disclosure of forward-looking strategic information is costly. A policy of full disclosure can allow competitors to obtain and use proprietary information to the detriment of the firm or can preclude investors from investing in the offering if they disagree with the chosen strategy of the manager. I argue that managers are likely to disclose only if the expected benefits of disclosure outweigh the expected costs. I expect the benefits of disclosure are the lowest for high-ability managers. High-ability managers can credibly convey firm value at the offering date and enjoy lower levels of information asymmetry. Low-ability managers, on the other hand, cannot credibly convey the value of the offering resulting in high levels of information asymmetry at the time of the offering. I provide evidence that low-ability managers are more likely to disclose plans for the offering proceeds than high-ability managers to reduce information asymmetry and the cost of obtaining funds. Finally, Chapter 3 examines the effect of regulation on the disclosure and reporting decisions of banking institutions. All public firms, including banks, must register their securities with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) if they meet certain thresholds. Registered firms must disclose financial information and adhere to strict reporting requirements. These firms are also subject to regulations such as the Sarbanes Oxley Act, which requires costly attestation of the adequacy of the firm's internal controls. In 2012, the Jumpstart Our Business Startups (JOBS) Act loosened the requirements for banks to register with the SEC. The JOBS Act raised the previous registration threshold of 300 shareholders of record to 1,200 shareholders of record, allowing banks with between 300 and 1,200 shareholders of record the opportunity to deregister their securities without incurring the costs of reducing their shareholders of record to be below the prior threshold. Within the first six months following the JOBS Act, 89 banks deregistered from the SEC, which is large given that only 142 banks deregistered over the ten years prior to the Act. We hypothesize that banks deregister to take advantage of private benefits of control. We find that banks deregistering after the Act have significantly lower institutional ownership, more insider trading and insider loans, and do not display significantly lower asset growth. In contrast to positive returns during pre-JOBS Act deregistration announcements, announcement returns for post-JOBS Act deregistrations are insignificant. By reducing the costs of deregistration, the Act likely allowed banks to capture private benefits while increasing the attractiveness of deregistration for higher growth banks.
Download or read book Overview of the Privacy Act of 1974 written by United States. Department of Justice. Privacy and Civil Liberties Office and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The "Overview of the Privacy Act of 1974," prepared by the Department of Justice's Office of Privacy and Civil Liberties (OPCL), is a discussion of the Privacy Act's disclosure prohibition, its access and amendment provisions, and its agency recordkeeping requirements. Tracking the provisions of the Act itself, the Overview provides reference to, and legal analysis of, court decisions interpreting the Act's provisions.
Download or read book Mandatory Management Disclosure and Mandatory Independent Audit of Internal Controls written by Khim Kelly and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 67 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We conduct an experiment where alumni participants from a Canadian accounting and finance undergraduate program assume they are in one of four regulatory regimes (manipulated between-subjects) and make investment potential evaluations for two firms (manipulated within-subjects): a firm disclosing no material weaknesses (No-MW disclosure firm) and a firm disclosing material weaknesses (MW disclosure firm) in internal controls over financial reporting (ICFR). We find evidence of configural information processing. For the No-MW disclosure firm, mandatory (versus voluntary) disclosure of ICFR material weaknesses and mandatory (versus voluntary) independent ICFR audit are substitutes in enhancing investment potential evaluations. However, for the MW disclosure firm, neither mandatory disclosure nor mandatory audit has any effect on investment potential evaluations. Supplementary experiments with undergraduate participants suggest that the pattern of configural information processing is a function of participants' knowledge of company disclosure incentives and the assurance value of an audit, wherein undergraduates with lower levels of knowledge are less able to perceive the effects of mandatory disclosure and mandatory audit on investment potential evaluations. Our findings have implications for regulators who are concerned about balancing the costs and benefits of different regulatory mechanisms.
