Value-relevance of pension transition adjustments and other comprehensive income components in the adoption year of SFAS No. 158 |
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Authors: | Santanu Mitra Mahmud Hossain |
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Institution: | (1) Department of Accounting, School of Business Administration, Wayne State University, 5229 Cass Avenue, Detroit, MI 48202, USA;(2) Department of Accountancy, Fogelman College of Business and Economics, The University of Memphis, Memphis, TN 38152-3120, USA |
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Abstract: | In the present study, we examine the value-relevance of pension transition adjustments and other comprehensive income (OCI)
components in the initial adoption year of Statement of Financial Accounting Standard (SFAS) 158—Employers’ Accounting for Defined Benefit Pension and Other Postretirement Plans. Using a sample of 697 Standard and Poor (S&P) firms with the fiscal year ending on December 31, 2006, we perform several
cross-sectional regression analyses to test the value-relevance of transition adjustments and OCI components in presence of
various earnings measures. The results indicate that there is a negative relationship between both the level and change in
stock returns and the magnitude of pension transition adjustments. We also find earnings measures and some OCI components
are significantly associated with stock returns. When analyzed separately, we find our main results are mostly confined to
the sample large S&P 500 firms. We do not find any result for the S&P mid-cap and small-cap firms. The overall results suggest
the stock market negatively reacts to the adverse impact of SFAS #158 pension transition adjustments on net worth and future
cash flows when the impact is substantial in its magnitude in dollar terms. The study further provides useful insight into
the information processing by documenting that the market evaluates accounting information more effectively when such information
is recognized in the financial statements rather than disclosed only in the financial footnotes. |
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