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Hemang Desai Srinivasan Krishnamurthy Kumar Venkataraman 《Review of Accounting Studies》2006,11(1):71-90
We study the behavior of short sellers around earnings restatements. We find that short sellers accumulate positions in restating
firms several months in advance of the restatement and subsequently unwind these positions after the drop in share price induced
by the restatement. The increase in short interest is larger for firms with high levels of accruals prior to restatement.
We document that heavily shorted firms experience poor subsequent performance and a higher rate of delisting. Overall, these
results suggest that the motive for short selling is, at least in part, related to suspect financial reporting and that short
sellers pay attention to information being conveyed by accruals.
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Hemang DesaiEmail: Phone: +1-214-768-3185 |
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Chaur-Shiuh Young Liu-Ching Tsai Hui-Wen Hsu 《Review of Quantitative Finance and Accounting》2008,30(3):297-314
This study examines the relation between controlling shareholders’ excess board seats control and financial restatements.
An analysis of a sample comprising 106 Taiwanese listed firms (53 restating firms vs. 53 non-restating control firms) shows
that financial restatements are more likely to occur when there is a greater divergence between controlling shareholders’
board seats control rights and ownership rights. We also find that the excess board seats control of controlling shareholders
is positively associated with the materiality and pervasiveness of financial restatements. Overall, these results suggest
that the entrenchment incentive from controlling shareholders’ excess control motivates firms to adopt aggressive accounting
policies.
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Hui-Wen HsuEmail: |
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Stephen P. Baginski John M. Hassell Michael D. Kimbrough 《Review of Quantitative Finance and Accounting》2008,31(3):311-330
The 1990s were characterized by substantial increases in the performance of and investor reliance on financial analysts. Because
managers possess superior private information and issue forecasts to align investors’ expectations with their own, we predict
that managers increased the quality of their earnings forecasts during the 1990s in order to keep pace with the improved forward-looking
information provided by financial analysts, upon which investors increasingly relied. Using a sample of 2,437 management earnings
forecasts, we document an increase in management earnings forecast precision, management earnings forecast accuracy, and managers’
tendency to explain earnings forecasts in 1993–1996 relative to 1983–1986. Given that these forecast characteristics are linked
to greater informativeness and credibility, we also document that the information content of management earnings forecasts,
as measured by the strength of share price responses to forecast news, increased in 1993–1996 relative to 1983–1986. As expected,
the increased information content of management forecasts primarily occurred for firms covered by financial analysts.
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Michael D. KimbroughEmail: |
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We provide an alternative explanation for the previous finding of analysts’ overreaction to extreme good news in earnings.
We show that such finding could be a result of analysts’ rational behavior in the face of high earnings uncertainty rather
than their cognitive bias. Extreme earnings performance tends to be associated with higher earnings uncertainty that generally
leads to more forecast optimism. Once this effect is accounted for, the univariate result of analysts’ overreaction to extreme
good news in earnings is subsumed, leaving only their underreaction in general.
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Jian XueEmail: |
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Using a sample of seasoned equity offerings (SEOs), this paper examines the association between the choice of financial intermediary
and earnings management. We contend that with more stringent standards for certification and intense monitoring, highly prestigious
underwriters restrict firms’ incentives for earnings management to protect their reputation and to avoid potential litigation
risks, while firms with greater incentives for earnings management avoid strict monitoring by choosing low-quality underwriters.
Consistent with our predictions, we find an inverse association between underwriter quality and issuers’ earnings management.
In addition, we find that underwriter quality is positively related to SEOs’ post-issue performance, even after controlling
for the effect of earnings management. We also find that firms with low-underwriter prestige and high levels of earnings management
under-perform the most. However, the effect of underwriter choice on post-issue performance does not last long.
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Myung Seok ParkEmail: |
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Landsman and Maydew (J Acc Res 40:797–808, 2002) document that the information content of earnings announcements has increased
over the past three decades, and Francis et al. (Acc Rev, 77:515–546, 2002) conclude that expanded concurrent disclosures
in firms’ earnings announcements, especially the inclusion of detailed income statements, explain this increase. We posit
and find that the temporal increase in the intensity of the market’s reaction to Street earnings offers a competing explanation
for the Landsman and Maydew finding. We also find that expanded concurrent disclosure of GAAP-based information contributes
to the temporal increase in the information content of earnings announcements. However, unlike Francis et al., we find that
the temporal increase in concurrent balance sheet and cash flow statement information dominates concurrent income statement
information once we control for Street earnings.
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Hong XieEmail: |
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Shai Levi 《Review of Accounting Studies》2008,13(1):1-21
This study investigates firms’ decisions to disclose accruals information in earnings press releases versus to provide it
only in 10-Q filings and the impact of this disclosure on the pricing of accruals. I find that firms disclose accruals in
their press releases when earnings alone are a weak indication of cash flow performance and that following these disclosures
the accruals information is fully impounded into stock prices. The evidence suggests that when investor demand for accruals
is likely to exist and firms disclose the information in earnings press releases, the mispricing typically associated with
accruals is mitigated.
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Shai LeviEmail: |
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We investigate if the SEC’s recently mandated disclosure of fees for audit and nonaudit services paid by firms to their incumbent auditors affected the market’s perception of auditor independence and earnings quality. Following the initial fee disclosures in 2001, we find that the market valuation of quarterly earnings surprises (earnings response coefficient) was significantly lower for firms with high levels of nonaudit fees than for firms with low levels of such fees. In contrast, in the year prior to the new fee disclosures, there was no reduction in earnings response coefficients for firms that subsequently reported high nonaudit fees. Our evidence suggests that mandated fee disclosures provided new information that was viewed by the market as relevant to appraising auditor independence and earnings quality.
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Bin KeEmail: |
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Our study analyzes market reaction to the entire content of a large sample of analysts’ reports from the period 2002 to 2004
for the German market. In particular, we explore whether the three summary measures in the reports, i.e., recommendation revisions,
earnings forecast revisions, and target price forecast revisions are acknowledged by the market. Additionally, we investigate
if stated justifications in the written text of analysts’ reports contain information value beyond the three summary measures.
We find that earnings forecast revisions and target price forecast revisions contain valuable information, both unconditionally
and conditional on the rest of the information in the report. Our findings also reveal that justifications made by analysts
are of high salience to market participants. These justifications provide valuable information, both unconditionally and conditional
on all other types of information in a report. Our findings also suggest that business ties between banks and the analyzed
companies do not affect market reaction to dissemination of an analysts’ report.
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Andreas Walter (Corresponding author)Email: |
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Li-Chin Jennifer Ho Chao-Shin Liu Thomas F. Schaefer 《Review of Quantitative Finance and Accounting》2007,28(3):307-326
This study examines whether reported values for firms’ research and development (R&D) affect analysts’ annual earnings forecast
revisions following quarterly earnings announcements. Because R&D introduces uncertainty into earnings forecasts, analysts
may benefit from additional information searches in an effort to increase forecast accuracy. Also, accounting standards mandate
an immediate expensing of R&D, in essence projecting a zero value for the R&D. To the extent that R&D will produce future
payoffs, the expense treatment reduces the informativeness of reported earnings for forecasting future earnings. Thus, the
marginal benefit of analysts’ efforts to produce more information may increase with the magnitude of the R&D component of
earnings announcements and trigger additional forecast revisions. Alternatively, if the cost of information searches exceeds
the benefit, analysts’ forecast revisions may decrease.
Our results show a positive relation between R&D expenses and analysts’ forecast revision activity. We also find a positive
and significant association between the level of R&D expenses and the magnitude of analysts’ forecast revisions following
quarterly announcements. These results point to a greater amount of analyst scrutiny when reported earnings are accompanied
by high levels of R&D expenses.
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Li-Chin Jennifer HoEmail: |
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Ruey S. Tsay Yi-Mien Lin Hsiao-Wen Wang 《Review of Quantitative Finance and Accounting》2008,31(4):331-358
The paper uses Ohlson (Contemp Account Res 11:661–687, 1995) and compares the relative predictability of the proposed simultaneous
model for contemporaneous stock price with a traditional single equation model used by the previous studies. The paper also
explores how residual income and value-relevant information affect firms’ equity price. The main results of the paper suggest
that the predictive ability and estimation efficiency of the simultaneous models in explaining contemporaneous stock prices
are better than those of the traditional single models. Moreover, investors will use the value-relevant information beyond
accounting earnings, namely analysts’ earnings forecasts, bankruptcy cost and agency cost, in equity valuation to make decision.
Note particularly, the higher the bankruptcy or agency cost is, the more important the role it plays in equity valuation and,
on average, the higher the accuracy of price prediction is.
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Hsiao-Wen WangEmail: |
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Publicly traded versus privately held: implications for conditional conservatism in bank accounting 总被引:1,自引:0,他引:1
Compared with privately held banks, publicly traded banks face greater agency costs because of greater separation of ownership
and control but enjoy greater benefits from access to the equity capital market. Differences in control and capital market
access influence public versus private banks’ accounting. We predict and find that public banks exhibit greater degrees of
conditional conservatism (asymmetric timeliness of the recognition of losses versus gains in accounting income) than private
banks. We predict and find that public banks recognize more timely earnings declines, less timely earnings increases, and
larger and more timely loan losses. Although public ownership gives managers greater ability and incentive to exercise income-increasing
accounting, our findings show that the demand for conservatism dominates within public banks and that the demand for conservatism
is greater among public banks than private banks. Our results provide insights for accounting and finance academics, bank
managers, auditors, and regulators concerning the effects of ownership structure on conditional conservatism in banks’ financial
reporting.
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James M. WahlenEmail: |
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Asymmetric timeliness tests of accounting conservatism 总被引:7,自引:1,他引:6
J. Richard Dietrich Karl A. MullerIII Edward J. Riedl 《Review of Accounting Studies》2007,12(1):95-124
Recent accounting research employs an asymmetric timeliness measure to test the hypothesis that reported accounting earnings
are “conservative.” This research design regresses earnings on stock returns to examine whether “bad” news is incorporated
into earnings on a more timely basis than “good” news. We identify properties of the asymmetric timeliness estimation procedure
that will result in biases in the test statistics except under very restrictive conditions that are rarely met in typical
empirical settings. Using data series that are devoid of asymmetric timeliness in reported earnings, we show how these biases
result in evidence consistent with conservatism. We conclude that the biased test statistics inherent in the asymmetric timeliness
research design preclude using this method to measure conservatism; that these biases are irresolvable as they originate in
the test’s specification; and that studies employing asymmetric timeliness tests cannot be interpreted as providing evidence
of conservatism.
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Edward J. RiedlEmail: |
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Enterprise risk management in financial groups: analysis of risk concentration and default risk 总被引:1,自引:0,他引:1
Nadine Gatzert Hato Schmeiser Stefan Schuckmann 《Financial Markets and Portfolio Management》2008,22(3):241-258
In financial groups, enterprise risk management is becoming increasingly important in controlling and managing the different
independent legal entities in the group. The aim of this paper is to assess and relate risk concentration and joint default
probabilities of the group’s legal entities in order to achieve a more comprehensive picture of a financial group’s risk situation.
We further examine the impact of the type of dependence structure on results by comparing linear and nonlinear dependencies
using different copula concepts under certain distributional assumptions. Our results show that even if financial groups with
different dependence structures do have the same risk concentration factor, joint default probabilities of different sets
of subsidiaries can vary tremendously.
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Stefan SchuckmannEmail: |
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We find no evidence of accrual mispricing for firms that disclose accrual information at earnings announcements. For these
firms, the market differentiates the discretionary from the nondiscretionary components of the earnings surprise. In contrast,
the market fails to distinguish between the discretionary and the nondiscretionary components of the earnings surprise for
firms that do not disclose accrual information at earnings announcements. These firms experience some stock price correction
around the filing date. However, the correction is only partial, resulting in a post-filing drift.
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Henock LouisEmail: |
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We examine financially distressed firms and document how governance characteristics affect (1) a firm’s ability to avoid bankruptcy
and (2) the power of financial/accounting information to predict bankruptcy. Overall, our findings indicate that a distressed
firm’s governance characteristics significantly affect its probability of bankruptcy. We find that smaller and more independent
boards with a higher ratio of non-inside directors and with larger ownership stakes of inside directors are more effective
at avoiding bankruptcy once distress is indicated. These results are consistent with the belief that these types of governance
structures induce more effective monitoring. The results are also consistent with the view that the inclusion of governance
characteristics enhances the power of financial accounting models in predicting bankruptcy.
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Steve L. SlezakEmail: |
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We condition security price reactions to quarterly earnings announcements on whether firms disclose supplementary balance
sheet and/or cashflow information that can be used to estimate the consequences of earnings management. Disclosure of supplementary
information is voluntary, and thus, we consider the possibility that firms that disclose balance sheet and/or cashflow information
differ systematically from firms that do not disclose. Results indicate that investors discount evidence of earnings management
at the disclosure date when supplementary information is disclosed. Such results indicate more informed earnings interpretations
of quarterly earnings when firms provide balance sheet and/or cashflow information concurrently.
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William R. BaberEmail: |
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Value relevance of value-at-risk disclosure 总被引:2,自引:2,他引:0
Chee Yeow Lim Patricia Mui-Siang Tan 《Review of Quantitative Finance and Accounting》2007,29(4):353-370
The SEC issued FRR No. 48 in 1997 to enhance public disclosure of firms’ exposures to market risk. We examine whether the
quantitative value-at-risk (VAR) estimates disclosed by 81 non-financial firms during the period 1997–2002 are value-relevant
using the earnings-returns relation. The empirical results indicate that high VAR is associated with weaker earnings-returns
relation. Further analysis shows that VAR is positively and significantly associated with future stock return volatility.
Our evidence suggests that investors perceive the earnings of firms with substantial market risk exposure to be less persistent,
and adjust the future abnormal earnings for the higher risk exposure. Thus, this results in a lower expected rate of return.
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Chee Yeow LimEmail: |
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Mine Ertugrul Özcan Sezer C. F. Sirmans 《The Journal of Real Estate Finance and Economics》2008,36(1):53-80
This paper studies the determinants of corporate hedging practices in the REIT industry between 1999 and 2001. We find a positive
significant relation between hedging and financial leverage, indicating the financial distress costs motive for using derivatives
in the REIT industry. Using estimates of the Black–Scholes sensitivity of CEO’s stock option portfolios to stock return volatility
and the sensitivity of CEO’s stock and stock option portfolios to stock price, we find evidence to support managerial risk
aversion motive for corporate hedging in the REIT industry. Our results indicate that CEO’s cash compensation and the CEO’s
wealth sensitivity to stock return volatility are significant determinants of derivative use in REITs. We also document a
significant positive relation between institutional ownership and hedging activity. Further, we find that probability of hedging
is related to economies of scale in hedging costs.
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C. F. SirmansEmail: |
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Terry Hallahan Robert W. Faff Karen L. Benson 《Journal of Financial Services Research》2008,33(3):205-220
In this paper we investigate the tournament induced risk-shifting behavior of Australian “multi-sector growth funds”. We apply
a regression-based methodology and examine tournaments based on the calendar year and the financial year. In our core analysis
we find evidence in favor of Taylor’s (J Econ Behav Organ 1455:1–11, 2003) risk shifting tournament hypothesis for financial year-end tournaments. Apart from the standard tournament
hypothesis we also report a range of findings regarding stability; fund age; and fund size. Support for the Taylor hypothesis
generally continues across these variations as well.
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Terry HallahanEmail: |