...Charles G. McClure; Anastasia A. Zakolyukina ABSTRACT The wide-spread reporting of non-GAAP earnings suggests efficiency gains from doing so. By estimating a dynamic investment model, we examine the real implications of investors using both GAAP and non-GAAP earnings to value firms. When investors...

...Enrique A. Gomez; Frank L. Heflin; Jasmine Wang ABSTRACT We study firms’ decisions to provide non-GAAP income statements and the information environment consequences of Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) comment letters directing them to stop disclosing such statements. We find firms...