scholarly journals Corporate risk reporting about Brexit as political communication

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-25
Author(s):  
Ekaterina Svetlova
2015 ◽  
Vol 11 (3) ◽  
pp. 301-332 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Dobler ◽  
Kaouthar Lajili ◽  
Daniel Zéghal

Purpose – This paper aims to propose and apply a novel risk-based approach to explore whether socio-political theories explain the level of corporate environmental disclosures given inconclusive evidence on the relation between environmental disclosure and environmental performance. Design/methodology/approach – Based on content analysis of corporate risk reporting, the paper develops measures of environmental risk to proxy for a firm’s exposure to public pressure in regard to environmental concerns that should be positively associated with the level of corporate environmental disclosures according to socio-political theories. Multiple regressions are used to test the predictions of socio-political theories for US Standards and Poor’s 500 constituents from polluting sectors. Findings – The level of environmental disclosures is found to be positively associated with a firm’s environmental risk while unrelated to its environmental performance. The findings suggest that firms tend to provide higher levels of environmental disclosures in response to greater exposure to public pressure as depicted by broad environmental indicators. The results are robust to alternative measures of environmental disclosures, environmental risk and environmental performance, alternative specifications of the economic model and additional sensitivity checks. Research limitations/implications – This study is limited to US firms in polluting sectors. The risk-based approach proposed may not be appropriate to cover sectors where corporate risk reporting is less likely to address environmental risk, but it could potentially be adopted in other countries with advanced risk reporting regulation or practice. Practical implications – Findings are important to understand a firm’s incentives to disclose environmental information. Cross-sectional differences found in environmental disclosures, risk and performance, highlight the importance of considering industry affiliation when analyzing environmental data. Originality/value – This paper is the first to use firm-level environmental risk variables to explain the level of corporate environmental disclosures. The risk-based approach taken suggests opportunities for research at the multi-country level and in countries where corporate environmental performance data are not publicly available.


2016 ◽  
Vol 22 (1) ◽  
pp. 127-152 ◽  
Author(s):  
P. Klumpes ◽  
C. Ledlie ◽  
F. Fahey ◽  
G. Kakar ◽  
S. Styles

AbstractRecent changes made to the UK Corporate Governance Code require UK firms to report new or enhanced narrative information concerning their principal risks, their risk management processes and their future viability. This paper analyses whether the level and nature of voluntary compliance with these new requirements is consistent with alternative economic and political visibility incentives. We analyse relevant sections of financial reports produced by industry-matched samples of large-, mid- and small-cap UK-listed firms during the transitional 2013–2014 financial reporting years. Both specific and generic readability attributes of the reports are measured. We find that virtually no firm in our sample has provided any viability statement. Empirical analysis of disclosures concerning principal risk assessment and review processes appear to be primarily motivated by political visibility reasons. Examples of particularly good and cases of poor corporate risk reporting practices are also discussed. Possible implications for the actuarial profession are discussed.


2020 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Kaouthar Lajili ◽  
Michael Dobler ◽  
Daniel Zéghal ◽  
Mitchell John Bryan

Purpose This paper aims to investigate the attributes and information content of risk reporting in two different institutional and regulatory, namely, Canadian and German, settings during the period surrounding the financial crisis of 2008. Design/methodology/approach For a matched sample of manufacturing firms in the period 2006–2010, this study conducts a detailed content analysis of annual reports to assess and compare the volume and patterns of risk disclosures. Panel regressions are used to explore how risk disclosures related to corporate risk proxies and performance indicators. Findings Over the sample period, Canadian and German firms increase the volume but largely maintain the patterns of risk disclosures. Risk disclosures relate to corporate risk proxies but are not incrementally informative to assess firm performance. Originality/value The paper contributes to research on risk reporting by providing detailed cross-country evidence for a period particularly shaped by significant risk. The findings have implications for the regulation and usefulness of risk reporting.


Subject Corporate risk mitigation strategies. Significance The sharp sell-off in emerging market (EM) equities and the perceived rise in geopolitical risk exposure among leading publicly listed multinational corporations (MNCs) portend a period of lower foreign direct investment (FDI), especially by Western companies, and lower returns on investment. Impacts Scrutiny of equity-based CEO compensation will increase. Calls will grow for enhanced ESG and political-risk-reporting standards among MNCs. A perceived rise in global geopolitical risk could present prime buying conditions for risk-tolerant investors such as the Chinese.


2018 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 29-41 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mohammed Mehadi Masud Mazumder ◽  
◽  
Dewan Mahboob Hossain

2019 ◽  
Vol 32 (3) ◽  
pp. 185-210 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chandni Khandelwal ◽  
Satish Kumar ◽  
Deepak Verma ◽  
Harsh Pratap Singh

Purpose This paper aims to review the status of literature on financial risk reporting practices (FRRP) for the purpose of synthesizing mounting literature to suggest the relevant risk reporting measure across the globe. Design/methodology/approach Using a systematic literature review method, a total of 61 articles from 42 referred journals and international conferences published from 2000 to 2018 are reviewed. Findings It has been found that despite the growing attention on and importance of corporate risk disclosure, academic literature on corporate risk disclosure is limited. Also, research linking risk disclosure with governance mechanisms is rare. Scrutiny of the literature on corporate risk disclosure shows that most of the researchers have focused on the limited or single period to examine the risk disclosure practices, determinants and corporate performance. The limitation of these studies is that with single period data analysis generalization of findings is limited. Findings of longitudinal studies are more reliable, and in extant literature, only a few studies have used data of more than a single period. Originality/value This paper contains a comprehensive listing of publications on financial risk reporting and corporate disclosure and its classification according to various attributes. The paper will be useful to researchers, finance professionals and others concerned with risk reporting to understand the importance of risk disclosure.


2017 ◽  
Vol 14 (4) ◽  
pp. 262-275
Author(s):  
Ramzi Alzead ◽  
Khaled Hussainey

This study makes a valuable contribution to the existing literature on corporate risk disclosure (RD) in emerging economies with a focus on the Saudi Arabian economy in the context of the Middle East. The vast majority of RD literature has placed emphasis on case studies and systems adopted in developed nations. This study undertakes a detailed analysis of RD practices in Saudi Arabian non-financial listed firms by adopting a quantitative approach for the collection and analysis of the datasets using a sample of non-financial firms listed on the Saudi Stock Exchange (Tadawal) over the period of 2010 to 2014. The study adopts a self-constructed unweighted risk disclosure index utilised in the measurement of risk disclosure. The index thus comprises of 11 main categories and a total of 47 sub-items. The main findings show that the average level of (RD) among all the samples is 17%, the maximum is 55%, and 10 firms did not make any RD at all, and of the majority that do, 63% of the information pertains to financial risk disclosure and related risks and the other 37% to non-financial risk disclosure. The trend for RD over the five-year period of study shows that most companies experienced an increase in their risk reporting activity.


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