Download or read book Voluntary Disclosure of the Components of Revenue Growth written by Luann J. Lynch and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this study we examine the valuation implications for different sources of growth. Specifically, we investigate whether supplemental information provided by firms to assist financial statement users in understanding the sources of growth is reflected in a premium to those firms. We examine a unique sample of firms that voluntarily choose to provide detail about their levels of organic revenue growth. Results indicate that firms that are larger, with lower research and development expenditures, and with higher intangible assets are those more likely to provide detailed disclosures about revenue growth components, all characteristics consistent with incentives to provide additional transparency regarding revenue growth. In regressions of returns on earnings disaggregated into revenue growth and costs, we find evidence that there is indeed a valuation premium to organic growth relative to non-organic growth. These findings are consistent with investors viewing the organic growth component of revenues as more persistent than the non-organic component of growth. Consistent with this interpretation, we document significant persistence of organic revenue across periods and a notable lack of such persistence for non-organic revenue growth.

Download or read book Earnings Quality written by Jennifer Francis and published by Now Publishers Inc. This book was released on 2008 with total page 97 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This review lays out a research perspective on earnings quality. We provide an overview of alternative definitions and measures of earnings quality and a discussion of research design choices encountered in earnings quality research. Throughout, we focus on a capital markets setting, as opposed, for example, to a contracting or stewardship setting. Our reason for this choice stems from the view that the capital market uses of accounting information are fundamental, in the sense of providing a basis for other uses, such as stewardship. Because resource allocations are ex ante decisions while contracting/stewardship assessments are ex post evaluations of outcomes, evidence on whether, how and to what degree earnings quality influences capital market resource allocation decisions is fundamental to understanding why and how accounting matters to investors and others, including those charged with stewardship responsibilities. Demonstrating a link between earnings quality and, for example, the costs of equity and debt capital implies a basic economic role in capital allocation decisions for accounting information; this role has only recently been documented in the accounting literature. We focus on how the precision of financial information in capturing one or more underlying valuation-relevant constructs affects the assessment and use of that information by capital market participants. We emphasize that the choice of constructs to be measured is typically contextual. Our main focus is on the precision of earnings, which we view as a summary indicator of the overall quality of financial reporting. Our intent in discussing research that evaluates the capital market effects of earnings quality is both to stimulate further research in this area and to encourage research on related topics, including, for example, the role of earnings quality in contracting and stewardship.

Download or read book Pennsylvania Department of Revenue Voluntary Disclosure Program Guidelines and Participation Parameters written by Pennsylvania. Department of Revenue and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 6 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Voluntary Disclosure Program Information and Updates written by Illinois. Department of Revenue and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 2 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book A New Era of Voluntary Disclosure Empirical Evidence on How Employee Postings on Social Media Relate to Future Corporate Disclosures written by Jeffrey Hales and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 67 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With the advent of social media, individual public opinions about firms can be more easily accessed and aggregated, and recent research suggests that various platforms, such as Twitter, Seeking Alpha, and Estimize, provide information relevant in predicting future corporate disclosures. Rather than focusing on the general public's opinion, we examine a public platform designed to convey insider information - Glassdoor.com, where employees voluntarily share their opinions on a number of issues, including the company's near-term business outlook. Using a sample of approximately 150,000 employee reviews, we extract both employees' explicit assessments of outlook and a measure of their latent outlook derived from factor analysis. We then examine whether the opinions employees share on social media relate to future corporate disclosures. In particular, we find evidence that employee opinions are useful in predicting growth in key income statement information, transitory reporting items (e.g., restructuring charges), earnings surprises, and management forecast news. While voluntary disclosures about firm performance have traditionally come from executives, our evidence suggests that rank-and-file employees are chipping away at upper-level management's exclusive control over that channel.

Download or read book The Entrepreneurial View on Voluntary Disclosure of Sales in Small Private Companies written by Stefanie Ceustermans and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Small companies are the backbone of the economy in many countries. In Europe, for example, small companies represent more than 90% of all companies. Despite the fact that these companies represent such an important portion of the economy, few studies have been examining voluntary disclosure decisions by this type of companies. Since small companies possess certain unique characteristics as compared with their larger counterparts, the general applicability of past voluntary disclosure studies to small companies is questionable. Drawing on agency, signalling and proprietary cost theory, this study investigates whether ownership, competition and accountant factors influence the decision to disclose financially sensitive information on a voluntary basis. Our results (using an e-mail questionnaire, n=1,102) show that nearly 40% of the responding companies are not even aware of their disclosure behaviour. For the companies that are aware of their disclosure behaviour, the logistic regression analysis shows that the ownership structure of the company is the most important determinant of voluntary disclosure. This is followed by perceived competition and the type of accounting software.

Download or read book An Empirical Analysis of Voluntary Disclosure of Sales by Small and Medium Sized Enterprises written by Patricia van de Wiele and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Determinants of Voluntary Disclosure of Sales by Small Private Companies written by Stefanie Ceustermans and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 25 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The purpose of this paper is to provide generalizable evidence on the determinants influencing the voluntary disclosure of sales in the abbreviated financial statements of small private companies. We estimate our model separately for micro-entities and non-micro small companies. The existing literature examining voluntary disclosure behavior does so mainly in a context of capital markets, leaving voluntary disclosure incentives of small and private companies largely unexplored. As we observe that many small private companies in Belgium disclose more financial information than required, understanding the benefits associated with higher disclosure levels is important. We empirically show on a sample of 243,633 small companies, which includes 163,686 micro-entities, that small private companies have incentives to disclose financially sensitive information on a voluntary basis.

Download or read book The Future of Voluntary Disclosure written by Noam Noked and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 11 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This article calls for the IRS to adopt permanent voluntary disclosure procedures that incorporate specific features of the latest offshore voluntary disclosure program and correct some of its flaws. If the IRS does not provide new voluntary disclosure procedures for willful noncompliance, taxpayers will face uncertain penalties under the so-called quiet disclosures and the traditional voluntary disclosure practice outlined in the Internal Revenue Manual. That uncertainty - and the potential for inconsistent treatment of similarly situated taxpayers - would increase the costs of becoming compliant and ultimately discourage taxpayers from making voluntary disclosures.

Download or read book Voluntary Disclosure of Sales by Small and Medium Sized Enterprises an Extented Analytical Model written by Patricia van de Wiele and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 29 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Managing Risk to Enhance Stakeholder Value written by and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 86 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Perspectives on International Financial Reporting and Auditing in the Airline Industry written by Can Öztürk and published by Emerald Group Publishing. This book was released on 2022-02-03 with total page 159 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Perspectives on International Financial Reporting and Auditing in the Airline Industry draws on the framework of financial reporting in the global airline industry for the year 2018 and focuses on the airline financial reporting based on IFRSs and audit of airline financial reporting based on International Standards on Auditing.

Download or read book The IRS Research Bulletin written by and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Mandatory and Discretional Non financial Disclosure After the European Directive 2014 95 EU written by Francesco De Luca and published by Emerald Group Publishing. This book was released on 2020-06-04 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The aim of the EU Directive 2014/95/EU, requiring the mandatory disclosure of non-financial information (NFI) by large undertakings and groups, is to rebuild trust with stakeholders. This book aims to summarize the relevant literature about company information with particular reference to the voluntary vis a vis mandatory NFI.

Download or read book Current Challenges in Revenue Mobilization Improving Tax Compliance written by International Monetary Fund and published by International Monetary Fund. This book was released on 2015-01-29 with total page 81 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This paper addresses core challenges that all tax administrations face in dealing with noncompliance—which are now receiving renewed attention. Long a priority in developing countries, assuring strong compliance has acquired greater priority in countries facing intensified revenue needs, and is critical for fairness and statebuilding. Series: Policy Papers

Download or read book Quantitative Data Analysis with SPSS 12 and 13 written by Alan Bryman and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This text provides a non-technical approach to quantitative data analysis and a user-friendly introduction to SPSS. It takes the reader step-by-step through the techniques, reinforced by exercises.

Download or read book Business Sustainability written by Zabihollah Rezaee and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-09-08 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Business sustainability has advanced from greenwashing and branding to being a business imperative. Stakeholders, including shareholders, demand, regulators require, and companies now need to report their sustainability performance. No longer is this a choice for businesses. A decade ago, fewer than 50 companies released sustainability reports, and now more 8,000 global public companies disclose sustainability performance information on some or all five economic, governance, social, ethical, and environmental (EGSEE) dimensions of sustainability performance, and this trend is expected to continue. Indeed, more than 6,000 European public companies would be required to disclose their environmental, social, governance and diversity information for their 2017 reporting year. However, the proper determination of sustainability performance, accurate and reliable reporting and independent assurance of sustainability information remain major challenges for organizations of all types and sizes. Through reading this book, you will: Identify sustainability strategies to create innovation in new products, services, energy-efficiency, environmental facilities and green initiatives. Understand the role and responsibilities of all participants in the corporate reporting process, including directors, officers, internal auditors, external auditors, legal counsel, and investors. See ways to improve public trust, investor confidence, business reputation, employee satisfaction, corporate culture, social responsibility and environmental performance. Learn all five economic, governance, social, ethical and environmental (EGSEE) dimensions of sustainability performance separately and their integrated and interactive effects on achieving the goal of creating sustainable value for all stakeholders, including shareholders. Learn how to adopt best practices in sustainability development and performance, and deliver effective integrated sustainability reporting and assurance.