Download or read book Voluntary Corporate Governance Disclosures written by Patrick Klijnsmit and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 347 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Voluntary Corporate Governance Disclosures in the Annual Reports written by Madan Lal Bhasin and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 27 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Corporate governance (CG) disclosure is a fundamental theme of the "modern" corporate-regulatory system, which encompasses providing "governance" information to the public in a variety of ways. This study explores the voluntary CG practices of 50 corporations, over and above the mandatory requirements of clause 49 of the listing agreement. In order to study the voluntary CG disclosure practices, a "content analysis" was done, and finally, a "CG disclosure" index was prepared. We have primarily used "secondary" sources of information, both from the "report on CG" and the "annual reports" for the financial year 2003-2004 and 2004-2005. As a part of voluntary CG disclosure, a total of 40 items have been selected from the CG section of the annual reports and proxy forms. In order to provide a comparison "across" industries, corporations have been selected from four industries, viz., software, textiles, sugar and paper. Appropriate statistical tools and techniques have been applied for the analysis. It has been observed that "corporations are following less than 50 percent of the items of CG disclosure index. Moreover, there is no significant difference among the disclosure scores across the four industries"

Download or read book Corporate Governance and Voluntary Disclosure written by Luminita Enache and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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 The Association Between Voluntary Disclosure and Corporate Governance in the Presence of Severe Agency Conflicts written by Ana Gisbert and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 58 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Agency conflicts between investors are particularly severe in the presence of high family and block-holder ownership. By focusing on a setting characterised by high ownership concentration, we study the role of independent directors in promoting transparency through increased disclosure. In our tests, we use a sample of Spanish firms and, consistent with prior work, we show that the presence of these directors is strongly associated with increased voluntary disclosure. Additionally, we find that when an executive director takes on chair responsibilities the level of voluntary information is reduced, creating potential conflicts with the role of independent directors. We conclude that the regulatory environment can create sufficient incentives to bring together the interests of minority and majority shareholders and guarantee an efficient monitoring role of independent directors. However, results suggest that other mechanisms should be reinforced in order to improve the role of governance control on agency relationships, particularly in the case of the concentration of chair and executive responsibilities.

Download or read book The Statement of Corporate Governance Practices Scgp a Voluntary Disclosure and Corporate Governance Perspective written by Réal Labelle and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 35 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Corporate governance has recently given rise to concern and public debate in Canada and on the international scene. Reaction in Canada has focused on extending the regulation of corporate disclosure with regard to corporate governance. Following the recommendation of the Dey Report, companies are now required by the TSE to provide a Statement of Corporate Governance Practices (SCGP). The need for regulation to influence corporate governance structure and disclosure is often challenged in the literature.This study contributes to the debate by providing empirical evidence to regulators on the incentives for some corporations to engage in better quality SCGP than others. The existing voluntary disclosure and corporate governance literatures are used to develop hypotheses about explanatory variables. The CICA's published ratings for 1996 and 1997 of firms' SCGP serve as benchmarks for disclosure quality, the dependant variable.Except for size and, to a lesser extent, ownership structure, we did not find consistent and significant relations between the SCGP quality and firm performance or other corporate governance variables such as the proportion of unrelated director, the CEO's plurality of offices and the level of financing activity. Thus, our study falls short of providing a basis for further regulatory action in the area of corporate governance disclosure.

Download or read book Corporate Governance Factors Influencing Voluntary Disclosure by Publicly Traded Canadian Firms written by Bruce J. (Bruce Joseph) McConomy and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Voluntary Disclosure of Corporate Governance Information written by Elizabeth Carson and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Corporate Governance Quality Incentive Factors and Voluntary Corporate Governance Disclosures in Annual Reports of Malaysian Publicly Listed Companies written by Norziana Lokman and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This paper investigates the relationship between corporate governance quality and voluntary disclosure of corporate governance information for listed companies in Malaysia. The moderating impacts of incentive factors (capital market transactions and stock-based incentives) on this relationship are also examined. Corporate governance quality is measured using a comprehensive index. The empirical evidence of this study is broadly consistent with the notion that high corporate governance quality is positively related to a greater extent of voluntary disclosure. Stock-based compensation significantly influences the relationship between corporate governance quality and voluntary disclosures; however the other incentive factors examined do not appear to influence the relationship.

Download or read book The Limits of Corporate Power written by Ira M. Millstein and published by Beard Books. This book was released on 2003 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a reprint of a previosly published work. It deals with the constraints on corporate decison making.

Download or read book Earning Voluntary Disclosures and Corporate Governance written by Faten Lakhal and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 33 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The primary objective of this paper is to study the relationship between earning voluntary disclosures made by French firms managers and a set of corporate governance combined attributes. Corporate governance attributes examined in this study include ownership structure, institutional investors ownership, board characteristics, the existence of a unitary leadership structure and the influence of executive stock option plans. We use binary logit models to check our hypotheses. The results indicate significant negative associations between earning voluntary disclosures and ownership concentration, and between earning voluntary disclosures and an unitary leadership structure. The current results also show that firms providing earning voluntary disclosures are more inclined to have increasing institutional ownership, and to offer stock option plans for their executives. These results imply that corporate governance structure of French listed firms has to support new requirements in order to improve market transparency.

Download or read book The Effect of Islamic Values on Voluntary Corporate Governance Disclosure written by Waleed AI-Bassam and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Purpose - The study examines the effect of Islamic values on the extent of voluntary corporate governance (CG) disclosure. In addition, we investigate the effect of traditional ownership structure and CG mechanisms on the extent of voluntary CG disclosure.Design/methodology/approach - We distinctively construct Islamic values and voluntary CG disclosure indices using a sample of 75 Saudi listed firms over a seven-year period in conducting multivariate regressions of the effect of Islamic values on the extent of voluntary CG disclosure. Our analyses are robust to controlling for firm-level characteristics, fixed-effects, endogeneities and alternative measures.Findings - We find that corporations that depict greater commitment towards incorporating Islamic values into their operations through high Islamic values disclosure index score engage in higher voluntary CG disclosures than those that are not. Additionally, we find that audit firm size, board size, government ownership, institutional ownership and the presence of a CG committee are positively associated with the level of voluntary CG disclosure, whilst block ownership is negatively associated with the extent of voluntary CG disclosure.Practical implications - Our study has clear practical implications for future research, practice and broader society by demonstrating empirically that corporations that voluntarily incorporate Islamic values into their operations are more likely to be transparent about their CG practices, and thereby providing new crucial insights on the effect of Islamic values on voluntary CG compliance and disclosure.Originality - To the best of our knowledge, this is the first empirical attempt at explicitly examining the effect of Islamic values on the extent of voluntary CG disclosure. We also offer evidence on the effect of traditional CG and ownership structures on the extent of voluntary CG disclosure.

Download or read book Antecedents of Voluntary Corporate Governance Disclosure written by Mohamed Elmagrhi and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 39 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Purpose: This study investigates the level of compliance with, and disclosure of, good corporate governance (CG) practices among UK publicly listed firms, and consequently ascertains whether board characteristics and ownership structure variables can explain observable differences in the extent of voluntary CG compliance and disclosure practices.Design/Methodology/Approach: The study uses one of the largest datasets to-date on compliance and disclosure of CG practices from 2008 to 2013 containing 120 CG provisions drawn from the 2010 UK Combined Code relating to 100 UK listed firms to conduct multiple regression analyses of the determinants of voluntary CG disclosures. A number of additional estimations, including two stage least squares, fixed-effects and lagged structures, are conducted in order to test the robustness of the findings. Findings: The results suggest that there is a substantial variation in the levels of compliance with, and disclosure of, good CG practices among the sampled UK firms. We also find that firms with larger board size, more independent outside directors and greater director diversity tend to disclose more CG information voluntarily, whereas the level of voluntary CG compliance and disclosure is insignificantly related to the existence of a separate CG committee and institutional ownership. Additionally, the results indicate that block ownership and managerial ownership impact negatively on voluntary CG compliance and disclosure practices. The findings are fairly robust across a number of econometric models that sufficiently address various endogeneity problems and alternative CG indices. Overall, the findings are generally consistent with the predictions of neo-institutional theory.Originality/Value: This paper extends, as well as contributes to the extant CG literature by offering new evidence on compliance with, and disclosure of, good CG recommendations contained in the 2010 UK Combined Code following the 2007/08 global financial crisis. This paper also advances the existing literature by offering new insights from a neo-institutional theoretical perspective of the impact of board and ownership mechanisms on voluntary CG compliance and disclosure practices.

Download or read book The Regulation of Corporate Disclosure written by James Robert Brown and published by Wolters Kluwer. This book was released on 1999-01-01 with total page 1709 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Regulation of Corporate Disclosure, Third Edition is a complete and up-to-date handbook on the issue of corporate disclosure, covering the impact of the federal securities laws on both informal communications and the process of communicating with shareholders. The Third Edition expands topics previously covered, addressing the legal issues and practical concerns surrounding implementation of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995, the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002, and the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act of 2010. The book also has an in-depth treatment of managementand’s discussion and analysis (MDand&A), something that, although appearing in required SEC filings, involves many of the same difficult and complex issues raised by the informal disclosure process. Also addressed are: SEC reforms of the periodic reporting process; issues pertaining to stock research analysts and conflicts of interest; and various relevant corporate governance requirements and their disclosure implications. Critical areas analyzed include ;Disclosure requirements and anti-fraud provisions The duty to disclose Dissemination Issues involving materiality Disclosure of bad news Negotiations Dealing with analysts And much more!

Download or read book Voluntary corporate governance disclosure firm valuation and dividend payout written by Hok-Leung Ronnie Lo and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Corporate Boards Ownership Structures and Corporate Disclosures written by Abdalrhman Alnabsha and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Purpose: This paper investigates the effect of corporate board attributes, ownership structure and firm-level characteristics on both corporate mandatory and voluntary disclosure behaviour in annual reports of Libyan firms.Design/methodology/approach: Multivariate regression techniques are used to estimate the effect of corporate board and ownership structures on mandatory and voluntary disclosures of a sample of Libyan firms between 2006 and 2010.Findings: First, we find that board size, board composition, the frequency of board meetings and the presence of an audit committee have an impact on the level of corporate disclosure. Second, this study finds an evidence that director ownership, foreign ownership, government ownership and institutional ownership have a non-linear effect on the level of corporate disclosure. Finally, we find that firm age, liquidity, listing status, industry type and auditor type are positively associated with the level of corporate disclosure.Limitation: Future research could investigate disclosure practices using other channels of corporate disclosure, such as corporate websites. Useful insights may be offered also by future studies by conducting in-depth interviews with corporate managers, directors and owners regarding these issues.Implication: Investors may also rely on such corporate governance characteristics to shape expectations about voluntary and/or mandatory information disclosure. Originality/value: Existing disclosure studies have mainly examined governance and voluntary disclosure relationship in non-listed firms. Our study, therefore, extends, as well as contributes to the existing literature by the examining the governance-disclosure nexus relating to both mandatory and voluntary disclosures in both listed and non-listed firms.Paper type: Research Paper.

Download or read book Corporate Boards Shareholding Structures and Voluntary Disclosure in Emerging MENA Economies written by Ahmed Sarhan and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Purpose: This paper investigates the level of voluntary compliance with, and disclosure of, corporate governance best practices, and the extent to which board characteristics and shareholding structures can explain discernible differences in the level of voluntary corporate governance disclosure in a number of emerging Middle Eastern and North African (MENA) economies. Design/methodology/approach: The paper uses a number of multivariate regression methods, namely ordinary least squares, weighted, non-linear, lagged-effects, two stage least squares and fixed-effects regression techniques to analyse data collected for a sample of listed corporations in emerging MENA economies from 2009 to 2014. Findings: First, in general, MENA listed firms have a relatively lower level of voluntary compliance with, and disclosure of, corporate governance practices compared to listed firms in developed countries. Second, our evidence suggests that corporate board characteristics, including board diversity and audit firm size have a positive association with the level of voluntary corporate governance disclosure. In contrast, the findings indicate that unitary board leadership structure, director shareholdings, and government shareholdings impact negatively on the level of voluntary corporate governance disclosure. The study does not, however, find any evidence to suggest that board size and family shareholdings have any significant relationship with the level of voluntary corporate governance disclosure. The findings are generally robust to alternative measures and potential endogeneity problems. Originality/value: This is one of the first empirical efforts at investigating the association between corporate governance mechanisms and voluntary disclosure in emerging MENA economies that observably relies on a multi-theoretical framework within a longitudinal cross-country research setting.