One consequence of the shift to fair value measurement is the emergence of voluntary disclosures in audited financial statements that question the reliability of mandated fair value information. We refer to these disclosures as reliability disavowals and address three questions: Are fair value...

U.S. and international accounting standards have mandated recognition and/or disclosure of fair value information for an increasing number of items. One consequence of this shift has been the emergence of voluntary disclosures in audited financial statements that explicitly question the...

We investigate the timeliness of fair value updates. We use a sample of firms required to disclose quarterly fair values for individual investments that use unobservable inputs and find evidence consistent with delayed updating and, on average, asymmetric incorporation of upward revaluations...