scholarly journals Toward Nature-Based Solutions (NBS) Approach in Integrated Segment Reporting of Placed-Based Organizations

2020 ◽  
pp. 101-112
Author(s):  
Maria-Gabriella Baldarelli ◽  
Domenico Nicolò
Keyword(s):  
Segment Reporting

Segment Reporting under IFRS 8

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Martin Nienhaus
Keyword(s):  
Segment Reporting ◽  
Ifrs 8

Earnings Shortfalls and Strategic Profit Allocations in Segment Reporting

2019 ◽  
Vol 33 (4) ◽  
pp. 37-58 ◽  
Author(s):  
Timothy D. Haight
Keyword(s):  
Firm Value ◽  
Data Availability ◽  
Segment Reporting ◽  
Market Responses ◽  
Earnings Components ◽  
The Future ◽  
Earnings Performance ◽  
Profit Rates

SYNOPSIS I examine whether firms strategically classify earnings components when reporting bad earnings news. Specifically, I examine whether firms reporting small earnings shortfalls allocate profits across their business segments in a manner that understates the future implications and within-firm drivers of disappointing earnings performance. I find that firms reporting small earnings shortfalls transfer profits toward segments in which profit rates are more informative for firm value and away from segments that operate in industries with higher frequencies of bad earnings news. In addition, I find that shortfall shifting initially tempers negative market responses to shortfall news, but pricing effects reverse in the months following shortfall announcements. My findings suggest that firms strategically classify earnings components when reporting small earnings shortfalls and that strategic classifications temporarily affect the pricing of shortfall news. Data Availability: Data are available from public sources identified in this paper.

An Analysis of Segment Disclosures under SFAS No. 131 and SFAS No. 14

2000 ◽  
Vol 14 (3) ◽  
pp. 287-302 ◽  
Author(s):  
Don Herrmann ◽  
Wayne B. Thomas
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Geographic Area ◽  
Segment Reporting ◽  
Internal Organization ◽  
Country Level ◽  
Reporting Requirements ◽  
Geographic Segment Disclosures ◽  
Segment Disclosures ◽  
Number Of Firms ◽  
Segment Information

The purpose of this paper is to compare the segment reporting disclosures under SFAS No. 131 with those reported the previous year under SFAS No. 14. Under SFAS No. 131, firms are required to report segments consistent with the way in which management organizes the business internally. In addition, the accounting items disclosed for each segment are defined consistent with internal segment information used to assess segment performance. For many companies, this represents a significant change from the approach used to report segments under SFAS No. 14. Under SFAS No. 14, firms were required to disclose segment information by both line-of-business and geographic area with no specific link to the internal organization of the company or the measurements that were used for internal decision making. As a result, many complained that the resulting disclosures were highly aggregated and of limited use for decision-making purposes. We find that the change in segment reporting requirements under SFAS No. 131 has made a relatively significant impact on the disclosure of segment information. Over two-thirds of the sample firms have redefined their primary operating segments upon adopting SFAS No. 131. There has also been an increase in the number of firms providing segment disclosures and companies are disclosing more items for each operating segment. For enterprise-wide disclosures, the proportion of country-level geographic segment disclosures has increased, while the proportion of broader geographic area segment disclosures has decreased. However, the number of firms reporting earnings by geographic area has declined greatly as this item is no longer required to be disclosed for firms reporting on a basis other than geographic area.

Unregulated Segment Reporting: Australian Evidence

1994 ◽  
Vol 26 (3) ◽  
pp. 217-234 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gary J. Kelly
Keyword(s):  
Segment Reporting

Do donors respond to discretionary accounting information consolidation?

2018 ◽  
Vol 30 (1) ◽  
pp. 16-39
Author(s):  
Benedikt Quosigk ◽  
Dana A. Forgione
Keyword(s):  
Charitable Giving ◽  
Accounting Information ◽  
Performance Measure ◽  
Financial Accounting ◽  
Financial Statement ◽  
Financial Accounting Standards Board ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Segment Reporting ◽  
Allocation Decisions ◽  
Practical Implications

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to investigate donor responses to discretionary accounting information consolidation. Nonprofit (NP) financial statement consolidation discretion significantly impacts program ratio reporting, the primary NP performance measure. Stakeholders are misled to allocate limited resources inefficiently. While some NPs file group Internal Revenue Service (IRS) Form 990 returns with their affiliates, effectively providing consolidated statements, others choose to file independently of their affiliates. Design/methodology/approach The authors use OLS regression analysis and panel data for 5,697 NP-year observations for the period 2009-2011 retrieved from the National Center for Charitable Statistics Form 990 database. Findings The authors find evidence that consolidation discretion substantially impacts donor decisions. NP managers have incentive to utilize consolidation discretion to influence charitable giving. Practical implications The authors urge the IRS and the Financial Accounting Standards Board to reconsider the consolidation guidance for NP organizations, to develop performance measures beyond the widely used program ratio, and to require program ratio segment reporting to allow for better comparability among NPs irrespective of consolidation status. Further, the authors caution stakeholders to consider supporting organization transactions in their resource allocation decisions. Originality/value The authors are the first to use NP supporting organization information to investigate consolidation discretion and its impact on donor responses.

The Tradeoff between Relevance and Comparability in Segment Reporting

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lisa A. Hinson ◽  
Jenny Wu Tucker ◽  
Diana Weng
Keyword(s):  
Segment Reporting

scholarly journals The Effect of SFAS No. 131 on the Diversification Discount

2015 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 58
Author(s):  
Seoungpil Ahn
Keyword(s):  
Firm Value ◽  
Investment Efficiency ◽  
Diversification Discount ◽  
Segment Reporting ◽  
Precise Estimation ◽  
Rule Change ◽  
Before And After ◽  
Excess Value ◽  
Diversified Firms ◽  
The Impact

<p>For a sample of diversified firms, I investigate the impact of the segment reporting rule change from SFAS No. 14 to SFAS No. 131 in 1997. This change in segment-reporting rules to SFAS No. 131 potentially allows more precise estimation of diversification discount. I probe the changes in the diversification discount before and after the reporting rule change in 1997. I find that there is a substantial increase in the diversification discount under SFAS No. 131. Further analysis indicates that the changes in the diversification discount are unrelated to the changes in firm value or investment efficiency. Instead, the measures of diversity appear to be more associated with the changes in excess value. This indicates that excess value is not a clean measure of diversification discount.</p>

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