Purpose - The purpose of this article is to explore the impression management practices in Covid-19 related discourses in the annual reports of the insurance companies in Bangladesh. Design/methodology/approach - To fulfil this objective, the authors have conducted a discourse analysis of the...

This paper examines how individual religiosity at the top level of organizations affects the quality of their disclosure practices, as measured by the readability of annual reports. Our paper extends the recent accounting and finance literature that moves away from a location-based measure to an...

Das Institut für Organisationsökonomik (IO) an der Westfälischen Wilhelms-Universität Münster wurde am 1. Oktober 2022 zwölf Jahre alt. Dieser 12. Jahresbericht informiert über das zwölfte Jahr, d. h. über das Wintersemester 2021/22 und das Sommersemester 2022. Wie in den Vorjahren...

This article studied the factors affecting the time taken for annual report submission through an analysis of 654 non-financial listed companies on the Vietnamese stock market from 2016 to 2020. Data collected were processed by using fixed-effect models (FEM), random effect models (REM),...

The purpose of this study is to examine the influence of earnings management on the readability of annual reports while also examining the moderating role of a female director. In particular, the readability of a company's annual report will be seen from the management perspective using the FOG...

The purpose of this study was to examine the relationship between the conciseness and complexity of financial disclosures and market reactions, using the annual reports of Chinese-listed B-share companies over the period 2006-2018. We employed a set of statistical methods that were derived from...

Human capital is a primary source of value in modern firms, yet little is known about what employee information firms disclose and whether it is timely and informative given the SEC's flexible disclosure rules. We examine the determinants of firms' human capital disclosures by combining textual...

In der vorliegenden Arbeit wird untersucht, ob und wie ausführlich in der Nachhaltigkeitsberichterstattung börsennotierter Elektroautomobilhersteller auf soziale Nachhaltigkeit eingegangen wird. Anhand eines selbst entwickelten Kriterienkatalogs, welcher sich an den Kernelementen des...

Using the unique scheduled disclosure system for annual reports in China's stock market, we examine within-industry herding behavior in annual report timing. The results reveal the waiting and following behavior strategies used in the annual reporting process within industry. Firms that...

The number of annual report comment letters (ARCLs) has been increasing over the years with the stock exchanges continuously strengthening ex-post supervision. Focusing on the financial expertise of board secretaries, who are directly responsible for disclosure, we thoroughly explore whether...

Our study analyses the nature, quality and extent of human resource disclosures (HRDs) of UK Financial Times Stock Exchange (FTSE) 100 firms by relying on a novel disclosure index measuring the depth and breadth of disclosures. Contextually, we focus on the five-year period following the then...

This paper provides a unique COVID-19 disclosure measurement and investigates the association between the level of COVID-19 disclosure and uncertainty. The results show there is a positive relationship between COVID-19 disclosure and uncertainty. Firms with larger boards exhibit more significant...

This paper provides a unique COVID-19 disclosure measurement and investigates the association between the level of COVID-19 disclosure and uncertainty within annual reports for UK FTSE-All share non-financial firms. We used automated textual analysis to score the sampled annual reports. The...

Das Institut für Organisationsökonomik (IO) an der Westfälischen Wilhelms-Universität Münster wurde am 1. Oktober 2020 zehn Jahre alt. Dieser 10. Jahresbericht informiert über das zehnte Jahr, d. h. über das Wintersemester 2019/20 und das Sommersemester 2020. Wie in den Vorjahren werden...

The purpose of this paper is to assess the effect of financial performance on textual features of the CEO’s statement. Specifically, given the incentives of poorly performed companies engage in impression management, the study investigates whether companies’ reporting strategy hinges on its...

This study examines whether the mandatory adoption of Integrated Reporting (IR) in South Africa improves the ease of reading of annual reports for investors. Using the coherence of text as a measure of readability of the text, I demonstrate that adoption of IR leads to an increase in the...

This paper reviews the literature on the real effects of financial reporting and disclosure on corporate innovation, highlighting both the possible channels of influence and the potential challenges that researchers face when attributing causal effects. We discuss the concept of innovation,...

This study examines the informativeness of firm disclosures related to COVID-19 in earnings conference calls and annual reports (10-K) during the first quarter of 2020 when firms face tremendous uncertainty and little regulatory guidance. We find that investors react to COVID-19 related...

We examine short sellers' use of textual information in annual reports for shorting activities. We find that more uncertainty and negative words in annual reports are associated with greater abnormal shorting volume. Short selling motivated by textual information negatively predicts stock price...

We use changes in firm officers and external auditors to examine the relative influences of these parties on annual report textual disclosures. Using a sample of public companies that file XBRL-tagged financial statements with the SEC between 2011 and 2018, we find that changes in chief...

Volume 26 of Studies in the Development of Accounting Thought was written by the late Professor Kevin Christopher Carduff, who taught at several institutions including Case Western Reserve University and the College of Charleston. Establishing a historical account explaining financial...

This study empirically investigates whether shareholders of corporations that are publicly held and traded in Saudi Arabia’s capital market are engaged as the owners of the corporations in which they have invested their wealth? We conducted a content analysis of the annual reports and...

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the level of intellectual capital (IC) disclosure of the largest Czech and Hungarian listed firms. We apply content analysis of the annual statements and measure IC disclosure by a score. We hypothesize that a significant positive relationship exists...

Das Institut für Organisationsökonomik (IO) an der Westfälischen Wilhelms-Universität Münster ist inzwischen neun Jahre alt. Der 9. Jahresbericht informiert über das neunte Jahr, d. h. über das Wintersemester 2018/2019 und das Sommersemester 2019. Wie in den Vorjahren werden das Institut...

Here this paper means for, to understand the connection between audit committee mechanisms on non -financial information reporting with particular to intellectual capital. In order to study the relationship, data are collected from BSE Sensex listed companies top with their market capitalization...

This study investigates the sustainability disclosure effects of the introduction of the Companies Act 2006 Regulations 2013 in the United Kingdom. The regulation mandates the disclosure of information on greenhouse gas emissions, gender distribution and human rights issues. We examine two...

Using the complete history of regular quarterly and annual filings by U.S. corporations from 1995-2014, we show that when firms make an active change in their reporting practices, this conveys an important signal about future firm operations. Changes to the language and construction of financial...

This study examines how dimensions of culture influence variations in views about the link between corporate tax payments and corporate social responsibility (CSR). Using textual analysis and a newly-developed set of keywords unique to a tax setting, we analyze 4,438 CSR reports from 24...