We examine whether managers convey more information via voluntary disclosure channels when standard-setters limit managers' discretion in GAAP. We estimate the extent to which standard setters limit managers' discretion by counting the number of times obligatory modal verbs are mentioned in the...

Defining managerial sentiment as managers' beliefs about future firm outcomes that are unjustified by the information available to them, we hypothesize and find that managerial sentiment is associated with unintentional errors in accrual estimates. Using a sample of public banks, we find that:...