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Book Transparency and Disclosure  Company Characteristics and Financial Performance

Download or read book Transparency and Disclosure Company Characteristics and Financial Performance written by Osama Ben Mansour and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book What Do Firms Disclose and Why  Enforcing Corporate Governance and Transparency in Central and Eastern Europe

Download or read book What Do Firms Disclose and Why Enforcing Corporate Governance and Transparency in Central and Eastern Europe written by Erik Berglöf and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 33 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While specific corporate governance rules often are controversial, most observers agree on the need to disclose who owns and controls a firm and what governance arrangements are in place. This paper examines such disclosure in a sample of 370 companies listed on stock exchanges in Central and Eastern Europe. The data show widespread non-disclosure of even the most basic elements of corporate governance arrangements, despite existing regulation. The level of disclosure varies substantially across firms, and there is a strong country effect in what companies disclose. Overall, what is disclosed depends on the legal framework and practice in a given country, but it does not correlate with firms' financial performance. On the other hand, financial performance is strongly related with how easily available the information is to the public. In particular, information is more available in larger firms, firms with lower leverage, higher market-to-book ratios, and more concentrated ownership.

Book Non financial Disclosure and Integrated Reporting

Download or read book Non financial Disclosure and Integrated Reporting written by Lino Cinquini and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-02-18 with total page 477 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The increasingly crucial role of companies’ non-financial disclosure (NFD) and integrated reporting (IR) has led to a lively debate among academics, practitioners, and regulators on the approaches, framework, contents, principles, and standards that should oversee these forms of reporting. Through several expert contributions, conducted both with qualitative and quantitative methodologies, this book provides an up-to-date portrait of the debate by exploring corporate NFD either in its mandated contents or voluntary information. Contributing authors provide studies that encompass the different lines of NFD, namely non-financial risk reporting, sustainability reporting, and intellectual capital reporting, as well as the integration of financial and non-financial information through IR, the assurance of the NFD and IR through auditing activities, and the role of management and CFOs in NFD and IR.

Book Corporate Disclosure  Concepts And Practices

Download or read book Corporate Disclosure Concepts And Practices written by Pankaj M. Madhani and published by . This book was released on 2008-08-06 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As financial reporting and disclosure are potentially important means for management to communicate firm s performance and value to outside investors, increased disclosure practices will help in reducing information gap between firm and its stakeholders.

Book Effective Company Disclosure in the Digital Age

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.

Book The Evolution of Corporate Disclosure

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.

Book Corporate Transparency and Firm Performance

Download or read book Corporate Transparency and Firm Performance written by Lanxuewen Wang and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Corporate Financial Disclosure  1900 1933

Download or read book Corporate Financial Disclosure 1900 1933 written by David F. Hawkins and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2022-02-01 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book, first published in 1986, is a close analysis into management’s financial disclosure practices of the first half of the twentieth century. With criticisms of existing financial disclosure practices continuing to today, this study aims to make sense of the present through an examination of past practices, difficulties and solutions.

Book Directors  Remuneration

Download or read book Directors Remuneration written by Study Group on Directors' Remuneration and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A complete copy of the Report including the Code of Best Practice. The Study Group on Director's Remuneration was set up on the initiative of the CBI in January 1995 in response to public and shareholder concerns about pay and other remuneration of company directors in the United Kingdom. The report covers code of best practice, main action points, remuneration committees, disclosure, remuneration policy, service contracts and compensation, privatised utilities.

Book Governance and Sustainability

Download or read book Governance and Sustainability written by David Crowther and published by Emerald Group Publishing. This book was released on 2020-10-21 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An analysis of the issues raised concerning both sustainability and governance and an investigation of approaches taken to dealing with these issues. The research has been developed by experts from around the world who each look at different issues in different contexts.

Book Do More Transparency   Disclosure Necessarily Enhance Firm Performance

Download or read book Do More Transparency Disclosure Necessarily Enhance Firm Performance written by Suman Banerjee and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 55 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The present paper provides new evidence that the introduction of transparency and disclosure rules may not necessarily boost firm performance. Focusing on the introduction of the Transparency and Disclosure (T&D) reforms initiated in Russia in 2002, we use data on staggered implementation of the reform by two types of Russian firms over 2003-07: firms listed only in Russian domestic stock exchanges and firms that listed both in domestic and various foreign stock exchanges prior to the reform. We find new evidence that the reform negatively impacted operating performance (i.e., EBIT/Assets) of Russian only domestic-listed firms, whereas had some positive impact on their valuation (e.g., Tobin's Q). Weak tax enforcement in the pre-reform period made it possible for managers to inflate earnings, which was no longer possible after the T&D reform was implemented. Further analysis showed that state-controlled domestic Russian firms experienced a drop in EBIT and did not experience any improvement in market valuation in the post-reform era. In contrast, better governed Russian firms did not experience a drop in EBIT and they were the only ones to experience significantly higher market valuation in the post-reform era.

Book Corporate Governance

Download or read book Corporate Governance written by Ulrich Steger and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2008-04-30 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book present the value school of corporate governance, outlining a multitude of areas where corporate governance could add real worth, and showing how this can be put into effect. No “one-size-fits-all” model emerges as a solution. Rather, the insights in this book take idiosyncrasies and dynamics over time into consideration. They consider the main issues and their real causes, ownership settings, country settings and new developments in corporate governance research and practice. International focus places emphasises on typical patterns, predicament and solutions instead of national laws. Points are illustrated with in-depth case studies and highlighted learning nuggets. Alerts the reader to typical dilemmas and traps in attaining the goal of value creation, whilst also pointing to promising avenues forward.

Book International Financial Statement Analysis

Download or read book International Financial Statement Analysis written by Thomas R. Robinson and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2012-04-04 with total page 950 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Up-to-date information on using financial statement analysis to successfully assess company performance, from the seasoned experts at the CFA Institute Designed to help investment professionals and students effectively evaluate financial statements in today's international and volatile markets, amid an uncertain global economic climate, International Financial Statement Analysis, Second Edition compiles unparalleled wisdom from the CFA in one comprehensive volume. Written by a distinguished team of authors and experienced contributors, the book provides complete coverage of the key financial field of statement analysis. Fully updated with new standards and methods for a post crisis world, this Second Edition covers the mechanics of the accounting process; the foundation for financial reporting; the differences and similarities in income statements, balance sheets, and cash flow statements around the world; examines the implications for securities valuation of any financial statement element or transaction, and shows how different financial statement analysis techniques can provide valuable clues into a company's operations and risk characteristics. Financial statement analysis allows for realistic valuations of investment, lending, or merger and acquisition opportunities Essential reading for financial analysts, investment analysts, portfolio managers, asset allocators, graduate students, and others interested in this important field of finance Includes key coverage of income tax accounting and reporting, the difficulty of measuring the value of employee compensation, and the impact of foreign exchange rates on the financial statements of multinational corporations Financial statement analysis gives investment professionals important insights into the true financial condition of a company, and International Financial Statement Analysis, Second Edition puts the full knowledge of the CFA at your fingertips.

Book Transparency in Government Operations

Download or read book Transparency in Government Operations written by Mr.J. D. Craig and published by International Monetary Fund. This book was released on 1998-02-03 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Transparency in government operations is widely regarded as an important precondition for macroeconomic fiscal sustainability, good governance, and overall fiscal rectitude. Notably, the Interim Committee, at its April and September 1996 meetings, stressed the need for greater fiscal transparency. Prompted by these concerns, this paper represents a first attempt to address many of the aspects of transparency in government operations. It provides an overview of major issues in fiscal transparency and examines the IMF's role in promoting transparency in government operations.

Book Corporate Disclosure by Indian Companies

Download or read book Corporate Disclosure by Indian Companies written by Roshna Varghese and published by Serials Publications. This book was released on 2010 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Corporate Social Responsibility and International Development

Download or read book Corporate Social Responsibility and International Development written by Michael Hopkins and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-05-04 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presenting ideas for how business can lead the way in deriving the good from globalisation, this book makes the case that governments and their international agencies, grouped under the umbrella of the United Nations, have failed in their attempts to rid the planet of underdevelopment and poverty.