... curbing (i) disclosure of non-public price-sensitive information and (ii) insider trading, we find that better governance quality is associated with reduced insider trading frequency, value, and profitability around private meetings. Firms with better corporate governance appear to exchange less price...

...: Short Title: Section/Category: Manuscript Classifications: Keywords: Order of Authors: Abstract: HORIZONS-2020-150R2 Article PERSPECTIVES ON THE FINANCIAL REPORTING OF INTANGIBLES Other Financial Accounting; Fair value; Standard setting; Voluntaty disclosures and/or management forecasts; Other financial...

..., Southern Methodist University, and The University of Texas at Dallas. We hand collect disclosures of publicly traded banks' end-of-year ALL by loan type from their 1994–2010 Form 10-K filings. During this period, banks estimated their ALL using the incurred loss model (ASC 450), which allows accrual...

...Federico Siano; Peter Wysocki SYNOPSIS We introduce and apply machine transfer learning methods to analyze accounting disclosures. We use the examples of the new BERT language model and sentiment analysis of quarterly earnings disclosures to demonstrate the key transfer learning concepts of: (1...

... accountability and mitigate corruption. However, we find a low frequency of voluntary disclosures of payments by oil and gas firms, and negative stock price reactions for affected firms at the announcement of regulations mandating disclosure. This suggests that sample firm managers and their investors perceive...

...: a semiannual reporting regime from 1982 to 1985, a quarterly reporting regime from 1986 to 1987, and a monthly reporting regime (both quarterly financial reports and monthly revenue disclosure) from 1988 to 1993. We find that although both switches (from the semiannual reporting regime to the quarterly...

...Joshua J. Filzen SYNOPSIS I examine whether recently required risk factor update disclosures in quarterly reports provide investors with timely information regarding potential future negative economic events. Specifically, I examine whether risk factor updates in 10-Q filings are associated...

... to disclosure of little r revisions. JEL Classifications: M41; M48; G38. Data Availability: All data used in this study are publicly available from the sources indicated. Corresponding author: Susan M. Young, Email: syoung16@fordham.edu We thank John Shon, Danielle Dunne, Ifthekar Hassan...

...Ronald J. Daigle; Robert E. Pinsker; Terence J. Pitre SYNOPSIS Because firms are likely to release both good and bad news in close proximity to each other, it is important to understand what impact a long information set of mixed directional (i.e., both good and bad news) disclosures has...

... comments. December 2012 September 2014 2015 family firms material weakness disclosure dual-class shares internal control corporate governance A family firm is defined as a company where family members, either founders or descendants, continue to hold positions in top...

... Management Discussion and Analysis (MD&A) disclosure of critical accounting estimates (CAE), including those regarding pension plans. This paper uses a random sample of 147 firms with relatively large defined-benefit pension plans to analyze firms' MD&A pension-related critical accounting estimate...

...Stephen W. Wheeler; Sandra J. Cereola; Timothy J. Louwers SYNOPSIS We examine MD&A disclosure practices concerning the positive transitory impact that LIFO liquidations have on reported earnings. This issue is particularly relevant in light of the recent calls to eliminate LIFO for tax revenue...

...Robert J. Bloomfield SYNOPSIS This paper uses a Pragmatic theory of language (drawn from philosophy and linguistics) to diagnose the causes of excessive financial disclosure and propose a regulatory solution. The diagnosis is that existing disclosure regulations are one sided, effectively...

... EDGAR database. Filers tag their financial statements with elements from a taxonomy that defines the reporting concepts so that the XBRL files can be understood by information consumers. The U.S. GAAP taxonomy was designed to represent common reporting practices and support the disclosure requirements...