Cash flow hedge derivatives are an example of an economic transaction that is not fully portrayed in the financial statements in two key ways. First, while changes in the fair value of the derivative are recorded at each reporting date, changes in the value of the underlying purchase or sale...

Cash flow hedge derivatives are an example of an economic transaction that is not fully portrayed in the financial statements in two key ways. First, while changes in the fair value of the derivative are recorded at each reporting date, changes in the value of the underlying purchase or sale...

We examine whether the social media reaction to an important firm disclosure provides a signal of the quality of that disclosure and whether capital market participants’ reactions to the disclosure are consistent with the social media reaction. Specifically, we examine the sentiment of posts...

Exploring mandatory financial reporting frequency changes in the US from 1954 to 1972, we find that a mandatory increase in reporting frequency is associated with an increase in firms’ future earnings response coefficients (FERC). This effect is stronger for firms with higher sales seasonality...

Regulators have expressed concern about high levels of immaterial information (i.e., information that fails to influence a current or prospective stakeholder) in annual reports. I examine the determinants of one component of disclosure materiality – the magnitude of quantitative annual report...

The Securities and Exchange Commission encourages the presentation of information or data in graphical form to improve users’ ability to understand financial disclosures. We observe a dramatic increase in the disclosure of both qualitative and quantitative infographics in 10-Ks from 2003-2020....