Do Voluntary Reviews of Interim Financial Statements Improve the Quality and Information Content of Quarterly Earnings?

2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter Kajjter ◽  
Florian Klassmann ◽  
Martin Nienhaus
Keyword(s):  
Information Content ◽  
Financial Statements ◽  
Quarterly Earnings

Disclosure of interim review reports: Do interim going concern conclusions have information content?

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Matthew Grosse ◽  
Tom Scott
Keyword(s):  
Information Content ◽  
Annual Report ◽  
Market Reaction ◽  
Financial Statements ◽  
Relevant Information ◽  
Audit Opinion ◽  
Going Concern ◽  
Significant Difference ◽  
Incremental Information ◽  
Review Reports

This paper examines the information content of interim review assurance in the Australian mandatory disclosure setting. First, we find a strong negative market reaction to interim going concern conclusions (IGCC) contained in the review of interim financial statements. Second, we find no significant difference between the market reaction to IGCCs and annual going concern opinions (AGCO) received at the annual report audit. Finally, we show IGCCs are significant predictors of subsequent AGCOs, and provide incremental information from the previous annual report audit opinion. Overall, these results contribute to the literature on the benefits of mandatory interim assurance by showing that going concern conclusions contained in interim financial statements provide investors with new and relevant information.

Firm characteristics associated with concurrent disclosure of GAAP-compliant financial statements with earnings announcements

2018 ◽  
Vol 26 (3) ◽  
pp. 365-381 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas D’Angelo ◽  
Samir El-Gazzar ◽  
Rudolph A. Jacob
Keyword(s):  
Financial Reporting ◽  
Voluntary Disclosure ◽  
Earnings Announcements ◽  
Balance Sheet ◽  
Control Sample ◽  
Financial Statements ◽  
Cash Flows ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Quarterly Earnings ◽  
Earnings Releases

Purpose This paper aims to examine the characteristics of firms that voluntary disclose generally accepted accounting principals (GAAP)-compliant statements of income, statement of cash flows (SCF) and balance sheet (BS) concurrently with quarterly earnings releases. Cardinal motivation of the paper stems from the increasing demand over the past decade by professional analysts and the Securities and Exchange Commission for concurrent disclosure of GAAP-compliant financial statements with earnings’ announcements. Design/methodology/approach Using hand-collected archival data, a random sample was identified as disclosing GAAP-compliant SCF and BS with their quarterly earnings releases compared to a control sample identified as non-GAAP-compliant disclosing firms during the 36-month period of 2009-2011, and several hypotheses are tested to determine managements’ incentives to disclose GAAP-compliant versus non-GAAP financials with their earnings releases. Findings The results in this paper suggest that debt financing, corporate governance, operating performance, earnings volatility, industry membership (such as technology and more research and development-intensive) and complexity of operations (number of segments) are significant characteristics of firms electing to concurrently disclose GAAP-compliant SCF and BS with earnings releases. Practical implications The findings discussed in this paper are of special interest to financial reporting policymakers, financial analysts, firm managers and stakeholders and academics. Originality/value The voluntary disclosure literature on quarterly earnings releases is extended by differentiating between GAAP-compliant and non-GAAP-compliant voluntary disclosers. The specific findings of this study may provide valuable input to policymakers as they study prevailing voluntary disclosure rules and practices.

scholarly journals Analisis Konten Informasi Dalam Laporan Keuangan, Laporan Kinerja dan Laporan Penyelenggaraan Pemerintah Daerah

1970 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 18-35
Author(s):  
Sukartini ◽  
Amy Fontanella
Keyword(s):  
Local Government ◽  
Focus Group ◽  
Human Resources ◽  
Information Content ◽  
Financial Statements ◽  
Legal Rules ◽  
Performance Report ◽  
And Performance ◽  
Document Review ◽  
Depth Interviews

Local government in Indonesia are obliged to produce at least 3 types of reports namely financial statements (LKPD), accountability reports (LAKIP) and performance report (LPPD). These three types of reports is regulated by different legal rules, using different formats and evaluated by different institutions. This research aims to analyze the information content of local government reports. Some previous research found that the usefulness of information presented on these three types of reports are relatively limited, whereas it requires high cost, involving many human resources and require a lot of infrastructure support. Thereforethe analysis of information presented in thesethree report needs to be done.This research conducted on Sleman and Malang district. The data used in this study were collected through document review, in-depth interviews, observation and focus group discusion. This study found many repetition of information on these three types of reports. This reseach also found inconsistencies of data used in these threereport.

Decision Usefulness of Alternative Joint Venture Reporting Methods

2003 ◽  
Vol 17 (2) ◽  
pp. 123-137 ◽  
Author(s):  
Roger C. Graham ◽  
Raymond D. King ◽  
Cameron K. J. Morrill
Keyword(s):  
Information Content ◽  
Joint Ventures ◽  
Joint Venture ◽  
Balance Sheet ◽  
Predictive Ability ◽  
Financial Statements ◽  
Decision Usefulness ◽  
Accounting Numbers ◽  
Future Return ◽  
The Cost

Depending on the country and circumstances, reporting rules for intercorporate investments may require the cost method, the equity method, proportionate consolidation, or full consolidation, and may yield dramatically different accounting numbers. In the post-Enron environment there is a particular focus on investments for which liabilities remain off balance sheet. We compare the information content of alternative accounting treatments for a sample of Canadian firms reporting joint ventures under proportionate consolidation. We restate their financial statements using the equity method, and we compare the information content of the two accounting methods in predicting accounting return on common shareholders' equity. We find evidence consistent with the view that financial statements prepared under proportionate consolidation provide better predictions of future return on shareholders' equity than do financial statements prepared under the equity method. We conclude that, for these firms, proportionate consolidation provides information with greater predictive ability and greater relevance than does the equity method.

Asymmetric Monitoring of Quarterly Financial Statements by Big 4 Auditors and the SEC's Timely Review Requirement

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carol Callaway Dee ◽  
Ayalew Lulseged ◽  
Tianming Zhang
Keyword(s):  
Earnings Management ◽  
Earnings Quality ◽  
Financial Statements ◽  
Seasoned Equity Offerings ◽  
Open Market ◽  
Equity Offerings ◽  
Audit Firm ◽  
Quarterly Earnings ◽  
Big 4 ◽  
Timely Review

We investigate if Big 4 firms are asymmetrically more effective than non-Big 4 firms in monitoring income-increasing vs. income-decreasing quarterly earnings management. We also study the Securities and Exchange Commission's (SEC) 2000 requirement that audit firm reviews of quarterly financial statements be completed prior to their filing with the SEC ("timely reviews"). We find Big 4 firms are more effective than non-Big 4 firms in curbing income-increasing earnings management around seasoned equity offerings (SEOs), but not income-decreasing earnings management around open market repurchases (OMRs). In the post-2000 period, after the SEC's mandate for timely reviews began, we find income-increasing earnings management around SEOs declined significantly, and this decline is primarily driven by the clients of Big 4 firms. We provide evidence that timely quarterly reviews improve earnings quality, especially when companies have incentives to engage in income-increasing accruals and are reviewed by Big 4 firms.

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