The Impact Of Recognition Versus Disclosure On Financial Information
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| Author | : Shana Clor-Proell |
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| Release | : 2014 |
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We investigate whether recognition on the face of the financial statements versus disclosure in the footnotes influences the amount that financial managers report for a contingent liability. Using an experiment with corporate controllers and chief financial officers, we find that financial managers in public companies expend more cognitive effort and exhibit less strategic bias under recognition than disclosure. This difference appears to be associated with capital market pressures experienced by public company managers as we find that both the cognitive effort and bias exhibited by private company managers are unaffected by placement. As a result, public company managers make higher liability estimates for recognized versus disclosed liabilities. Their liability estimates are similar to those of private company managers for recognition but lower than private company managers' estimates for disclosure. Our results have implications for auditors and financial statement users in evaluating recognized versus disclosed information for public and private companies.
| Author | : Riddha Basu |
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| Total Pages | : 49 |
| Release | : 2018 |
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We examine whether the recognition versus disclosure of identical accounting information affects the credit rating process and ultimately corporate credit ratings. The primary input into corporate credit ratings is adjusted financial statements, which the rating agencies create by modifying reported financial statements to reflect credit-relevant items not recognized under U.S. GAAP. The rating agencies have claimed that this process means that accounting changes that move previously disclosed information onto firms' financial statements have virtually no effect on firms' adjusted financial statements or their credit ratings. We show that this claim is incorrect using the implementation of Financial Accounting Standards Board Statement No. 158 (“SFAS158”). This standard did not prescribe any new financial information. Rather, it simply required the balance sheet recognition of a previously disclosed item. We find that firms recognizing an additional pension liability due to SFAS158 had lower leverage on the rating agency adjusted financial statements and received higher corporate credit ratings. This counterintuitive result occurs because the rating agency adjustments made pre-SFAS158 were punitive relative to the combination of the SFAS158 changes and the rating agency adjustments made post-SFAS158. The difference in rating agency adjustments pre- and post-SFAS158 was primarily due to rating agency adjustments in the pre-SFAS158 period that did not account for minimum liability adjustments, an aspect of pension accounting eliminated by SFAS158. Overall, our results indicate that SFAS158 generated real changes in rating agency adjustments, and that these changes had real consequences for firms' credit ratings.
| Author | : Preeti Choudhary |
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| Total Pages | : 103 |
| Release | : 2000 |
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| ISBN | : 9780549486183 |
| Author | : Kun Yu |
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| Total Pages | : 436 |
| Release | : 2009 |
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Abstract: An important area of research and issue of interest for standard setters is whether information disclosure in the footnotes is a substitute for recognition in the financial statements. SFAS 158, issued in 2006, requires the recognition of pension liabilities that were only disclosed in the footnotes under SFAS 87, for the fiscal year ending after Dec. 15, 2006. I empirically examine whether the recognition of the previously disclosed off-balance-sheet pension liabilities affects investors' valuation and firms' contracting costs. I also incorporate levels of investor sophistication in my analyses. Using a sample of firms with pension liabilities that were disclosed under SFAS 87 and subsequently recognized under SFAS 158 from 1999 to 2007, I find that, without considering investor sophistication, SFAS 158 generally does not increase the value relevance of the previously disclosed off-balance-sheet pension liabilities. However, after taking into account investor sophistication, I show that the disclosed off-balance-sheet pension liabilities are more value relevant for firms with a higher level of investor sophistication in the pre-158 period; more importantly, I find that SFAS 158 significantly increases the value relevance of the previously disclosed off-balance-sheet pension liabilities for firms with a low proportion of sophisticated investors, and the increase in the value relevance is less pronounced for firms with a higher proportion of sophisticated investors. Consistent with the contracting theory, I find that requiring the recognition of previously only-disclosed liabilities affects the debt contracting cost and the cost of capital. However, only sophisticated investors appear to understand the effect of SFAS 158 on the debt contracting cost and the stock price. Overall, the results support that recognition affects investors' valuation and firms' contracting costs. The results also highlight the role of the level of investor sophistication in the value relevance of disclosed vs. recognized financial information.
| Author | : John Donovan |
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| Total Pages | : 49 |
| Release | : 2019 |
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We study how recognition versus disclosure affects the control function of accounting through the use of debt covenants. While research shows that recognition affects the value-relevance of reported amounts, the effect on contracting is unclear. We examine whether covenants changed around SFAS 158 adoption, which required recognition of previously disclosed pension liabilities. We find that pension underfunding is negatively associated with the use of capital (i.e., balance sheet) covenants prior to recognition. Post-SFAS 158, pension underfunding is associated with a higher likelihood of using capital covenants relative to the pre-period. We find no evidence that SFAS 158 alters the use of income statement covenants. Additional analysis suggests a decrease in cost of debt with no corresponding change in credit risk. Collectively, the evidence suggests that recognition enables more effective allocation of control through the use of covenants because financial statements better represent the financial condition of the borrower.
| Author | : Doron Israeli |
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| Total Pages | : 59 |
| Release | : 2015 |
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The application of International Accounting Standard (IAS) 40, Investment Property, in the European Union created a unique setting to study the implications of a decision to recognize versus disclose financial statements' items because in this setting recognized and disclosed investment-property-related amounts share a common measurement base, i.e., fair value. I utilize this setting to (1) explore factors associated with a firm's choice to recognize versus disclose fair values of investment properties, (2) test whether recognized and disclosed amounts are valued equally by equity investors, and (3) determine whether these amounts exhibit equivalent associations with future financial outcomes. To correct for self-selection concerns and assure I compare analogous amounts, I develop a selection model and construct investment-property-related amounts that differ only in whether their components are recognized or disclosed. I find that (1) contractual and asset pricing incentives help explain the recognition versus disclosure choice, (2) investors place smaller valuation weights on disclosed amounts, and (3) recognized and disclosed amounts exhibit statistically equivalent associations with future changes in net rental income and cash flows from operations. Taken together, the evidence suggests that managers are opportunistic in making the recognition versus disclosure choice and that even when recognized and disclosed amounts share an equivalent measurement base and are equally relevant for future financial outcomes, investors weight disclosed information less heavily in determining a firm's value.
| Author | : Frank D. Hodge |
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| Release | : 2014 |
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Research suggests that investors and creditors react less strongly to information disclosed in footnotes than to information recognized on the face of financial statements, due at least in part to cognitive processing limitations. Emerging technologies (e.g., XBRL) that facilitate directed searches and simultaneous presentation of related financial statement and footnote information could potentially alleviate these limitations. We use an experiment to investigate whether the use of a search-facilitating technology affects how individuals react to recognition versus disclosure of stock option compensation. We find that the use of search-facilitating technology reduces differences in nonprofessional investors' financial performance judgments and investment decisions created by recognition versus disclosure. Additionally, we provide evidence that investors perceive greater differences in financial statement reliability between recognition and disclosure when they use search-facilitating technology. Overall, our findings suggest that search-facilitating technology improves the transparency of financial statement information and therefore may reduce incentives for firms to lobby for or to choose footnote disclosure to minimize the effects of negative information.
| Author | : Jeremy Michels |
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| Total Pages | : 55 |
| Release | : 2016 |
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Standard setters explicitly state that disclosure should not substitute for recognition in financial reports. Consistent with this directive, prior research shows that investors find recognized values more pertinent than disclosed values. However, it remains unclear whether reporting items are recognized because they are more relevant for investing decisions, or whether requiring recognition itself prompts differing behavior on the part of firms and investors. Using the setting of subsequent events, I identify the differential effect of requiring disclosure versus recognition in a setting where the accounting treatment of an item is exogenously determined. For comparable events, I find a stronger initial market response for firms required to recognize relative to firms that must disclose, although the large magnitude of the identified effect calls into question whether this difference can be attributed to accounting treatments alone. In examining various reasons for the stronger market response to recognized values, I fail to find support for the hypothesis that this difference is due to differential reliability of disclosed and recognized values. I do find some evidence that investors underreact to disclosed events, consistent with investors incurring higher processing costs when using disclosed information.
| Author | : Cheng F. Lee |
| Publisher | : Center for PBBEFR & Airiti Press |
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| Release | : 2017-01-01 |
| Genre | : Business & Economics |
| ISBN | : 986628669X |
Advances in Quantitative Analysis of Finance and Accounting (New Series) is an annual publication designed to disseminate developments in the quantitative analysis of finance and accounting. The publication is a forum for statistical and quantitative analyses of issues in finance and accounting as well as applications of quantitative methods to problems in financial management, financial accounting, and business management. The objective is to promote interaction between academic research in finance and accounting and applied research in the financial community and the accounting profession.
| Author | : Chunqi Zhang |
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| Total Pages | : 176 |
| Release | : 2005 |
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