CEO internal experience and voluntary disclosure quality: Evidence from management forecasts

Internally‐promoted CEOs should have a deep understanding of their firm's products, supply chain, operations, business climate, corporate culture, and how to navigate among employees to get the information they need. Thus, we argue that internally‐promoted CEOs are likely to produce higher quality disclosure than outsider CEOs. Using a sample of US firms from the S&P1500 index from 2001 to 2011, we hand‐collect whether a CEO is hired from inside the firm and, if so, the number of years they worked at the firm before becoming CEO. We then examine whether managers with more internal experience issue higher quality disclosures and offer three main findings. First, CEOs with more internal experience are more likely to issue voluntary earnings forecasts than those managers with less internal experience as well as those managers hired from outside the firm. Second, CEOs with more internal experience issue more accurate earnings forecasts than those managers with less internal experience as well as those managers hired from outside the firm. Finally, investors react more strongly to forecasts issued by insider CEOs than to those issued by outsider CEOs. In additional analysis, we find no evidence that these results extend to mandatory reporting quality (i.e., accruals quality, restatements, or internal control weaknesses), perhaps because mandatory disclosure is subjected to heavy oversight by the board of directors, auditors, and regulators. Overall, our findings suggest that when managers have work experience with the firm prior to becoming the CEO, the firm's voluntary disclosure is of higher quality.     

关于成本管理改革的探讨

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提高我国自主创新能力的思考

本文依据当代经济发达国家经济社会发展经验的总结,并从我国当前全面建设小康社会的客观需要出发,分析了提高自主创新能力在国家经济社会发展战略中的核心地位,提出构建体制基础和科技基础以及营造生态环境,是推行自主创新战略的基本措施。     

文学课教学中的审美人生教育

文学教育是一种审美教育,其终极目标不在于培养审美兴趣与审美能力,而在于培养审美人生观。这与文学自身的特性及文学鉴赏的要求有关。在文学课教学中落实审美人生教育应抓住作品的生命意识,强化情感体验,将审美与育人结合起来。     

人口流动与城乡发展:探索发展中国家的经验

围绕发展中国家城乡二元经济结构下人口流动对城乡发展的影响,以及城乡发展对人口流动的作用,认识人口流动与城乡发展之间的关系,探讨人口城市化受城乡发展不平衡的影响及相应对策.     

社会保障制度的国际比较与借鉴

通过对各国社会保障模式的比较分析,结合我国社会保障制度的现状,提出可资借鉴的思路。     

论体验营销下的顾客化旅游体验设计

在旅游体验营销诸环节中，体验设计直接影响着旅游体验的效果。以整个营销过程为视角，纵向分析了旅游体验设计的过程和步骤并从旅游产品构成角度横向分析了旅游体验设计应注意要点。最后，在此基础上尝试构建了顾客化旅游体验设计模型。     

体验经济下的零售业营销创新思考

本文研究了体验经济下的零售业营销创新问题，分析了体验经济封零售业传统经营模式的冲击，及零售业传统经营模式存在的矛盾和问题，提出了一些零售业的体验营销策略。     

北京城乡结合部的发展演变及启示

在研究北京城乡结合部于改革开放后发展变化历程的基础上,对城乡结合部在北京发展中的四个作用作了详细的分析,对北京城乡结合部发展中存在的六个方面的问题也进行了分析并提出了相应的对策建议.     

The Effect of Respondent Experience/Knowledge in the Elicitation of Contingent Values: An Investigation of Convergent Validity,Procedural Invariance and Reliability

Tests of convergent validity and procedural invariance were used to investigate whether individuals lacking direct experience with a commodity can provide valid responses to contingent-valuation questions eliciting ex post use values. Convergent validity between samples with and without experience was shown to hold for dichotomous-choice responses, but not for open-ended responses.