scholarly journals Linkages between ownership concentration and financial ratio communication

2010 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 76-86
Author(s):  
Norhani Aripin ◽  
Greg Tower ◽  
Grantley Taylor
Keyword(s):  
Financial Services ◽  
Voluntary Disclosure ◽  
Theoretical Background ◽  
Ownership Concentration ◽  
Annual Reports ◽  
Financial Ratio ◽  
Listed Firms ◽  
Concentrated Ownership ◽  
Audit Firms ◽  
The Relationship

This study examines the relationship between ownership concentration and the extent of financial ratio disclosures (EFRD) in the 2007 annual reports of Australian listed firms. Using agency theory as theoretical background, it is suggested that firms with more concentrated ownership structures are less likely to provide voluntary disclosure of financial ratios information. The univariate tests demonstrate that profitable firms, those firms audited by Big4 auditors and firms belonging to financial services industry communicate more financial ratio information. OLS regressions show that more dispersed shareholding firms‟ are significantly associated with EFRD. Profitable and larger firms audited by independent and Big4 audit firms additionally reported more extensive financial ratio information.

scholarly journals Ownership structure and voluntary disclosure in corporate annual reports of Malaysian listed firms

2011 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 296-312 ◽  
Author(s):  
Poh-Ling Ho ◽  
Gregory Tower
Keyword(s):  
Ownership Structure ◽  
Voluntary Disclosure ◽  
Positive Association ◽  
Institutional Ownership ◽  
Ownership Concentration ◽  
Annual Reports ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
Listed Firms ◽  
Ownership Structures ◽  
The Impact

This paper examines the impact of ownership structure on the voluntary disclosure in the annual reports of Malaysian listed firms. The result shows that there is an increase in the extent of voluntary disclosure in Malaysian listed firms over the eleven-year period from 1996 to 2006. Ownership concentration consistently shows positive association with voluntary disclosure. Firms with higher foreign and institutional ownership have a significantly positive association with voluntary disclosure levels while firms with family ownership exhibit lower voluntary disclosure. Consistent with agency theory, different ownership structures have varied monitoring effects on agency costs and clearly influence firm’s disclosure practices. The findings provide insights to policy makers and regulators in their desire to increase transparency and accountability amidst the continual enhancement of corporate governance. The findings provide evidence that optimized ownership structure in any jurisdiction should be considered in any regulatory process that seeks to improve transparency.

The Relation Between Earnings Quality and Cost of Equity and the Role of Ownership Concentration: Evidence from Italy

2021 ◽  
pp. 2150010
Author(s):  
Claudia Frisenna ◽  
Daniele Greco ◽  
Davide Rizzotti
Keyword(s):  
Earnings Quality ◽  
Negative Relationship ◽  
Ownership Concentration ◽  
Cost Of Equity ◽  
Quality Cost ◽  
Listed Firms ◽  
Concentrated Ownership ◽  
Italian Context ◽  
The Relationship

This study aims to replicate the analysis of the relationship between earnings quality and cost of equity in the Italian context, a context characterized by high ownership concentration and weak investor protection dominated by the type II agency problem. We hypothesize a different intensity of the earnings quality–cost of equity relation between concentrated-held firms and dispersed-held ones. The analysis is based on a sample of 774 firm-year observations from 128 Italian nonfinancial listed firms, from 2011 to 2017. Empirical results confirm the existence of a negative relationship between earnings quality and cost of equity. Moreover, findings show that in Italy, this relation is stronger for firms with concentrated ownership and weaker for firms with more dispersed ownership. Consistent with our hypothesis, this finding suggests that ownership structure affects the sensitivity of the earnings quality–cost of equity relationship.

scholarly journals Organizational Culture and Voluntary Disclosure Practices of Listed Firms in Nigeria

2018 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. p51 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nyahas Samson Iliya ◽  
Joseph M. Ntayi ◽  
Nixon Kamukama ◽  
John C. Munene
Keyword(s):  
Organizational Culture ◽  
Voluntary Disclosure ◽  
Structural Equation ◽  
Survey Design ◽  
Equation Model ◽  
Annual Reports ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Strict Adherence ◽  
Listed Firms ◽  
The Relationship

The purpose of this paper is to test the relationship between organizational culture and voluntary disclosure by listed firms in Nigeria. The research design for the study is survey design that is cross-sectional nature to examine the relationship among the study variables. Data for organizational culture were obtained from administration of questionnaire while that for voluntary disclosure were from financial reports of 92 listed companies. To test our main hypotheses, we used Structural Equation Model (SEM) especially PLS-SEM. The results indicate that both ritualism and opportunism dimensions of organizational culture are positively associated with voluntary disclosure. This implies that, firms’ emphasis on rules as well as flexibility in response to changing environmental needs promote the practice of voluntary disclosure in annual reports. This study concludes that voluntary disclosure is associated with flexibility in policies and disclosure rules as well as strict adherence to laid down guideline for the identification and measurement of disclosure items.

Risk Disclosures in the Annual Reports of Italian Listed Companies

2014 ◽  
pp. 141-168
Author(s):  
Lorenzo Neri ◽  
Antonella Russo
Keyword(s):  
Voluntary Disclosure ◽  
Stock Exchange ◽  
Empirical Work ◽  
Annual Reports ◽  
Risk Disclosure ◽  
Listed Firms ◽  
Risk Disclosures ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Increases In Risk ◽  
Risk Reporting

The study examines the relevance of risk reporting in the field of firm voluntary disclosure with an empirical work on Italian listed firms. The motivation of this study is the implementation of the Directive 51/2003/CE in Italy (D.Lgs. 32/2007), a sample of companies listed on the Italian Stock Exchange is selected to investigate the relationship between risk disclosure and company characteristics. This paper explores whether there are significant increases in risk reporting over a period of five years and investigates if risk disclosure is influenced only by new law requirement or also by other possible drivers. A content analysis is performed to obtain a measure of risk narrative disclosure. Then several hypothesis tests are carried out to verify whether there are any corporate differences between companies with different levels of risk disclosure, using univariate and multivariate analysis. Our results on the first question document significant increases in Italian companies' levels of risk disclosures. We find also that the disclosure is not only determined by the new law requirements but also by other drivers such as company size.

Is Voluntary Disclosure Value Relevant? Evidence from Top Listed Firms in India

2021 ◽  
pp. 097226292098629
Author(s):  
Rupjyoti Saha ◽  
Kailash Chandra Kabra
Keyword(s):  
Voluntary Disclosure ◽  
Value Relevance ◽  
Stock Exchange ◽  
Market Value ◽  
Policy Implications ◽  
Positive Contribution ◽  
Listed Firms ◽  
Strategic Disclosure ◽  
Relevant Evidence ◽  
The Relationship

In view of ongoing reforms in India with emphasis on improving transparency of corporate, the present study aims to examine the influence of voluntary disclosure on the market value of India’s top-listed firms. To this end, the study uses a sample of top 100 non-financial and non-utility firms listed at Bombay Stock Exchange based on market capitalization over a 5-year period (2014–2018). To control potential endogeneity in the relationship between voluntary disclosure and firms’ market valuation, fixed effect panel data model and two-stage least squares model of estimation have been employed. The result obtained from the analysis suggests that enhanced level of voluntary disclosure significantly improves the market value of sample firms. The study further undertakes additional analysis by categorizing voluntary disclosure into its sub-components wherein the findings reveal that three components of voluntary disclosure such as corporate and strategic disclosure, forward looking disclosure and corporate governance disclosure make positive contribution towards market value of firms, while the remaining components of voluntary disclosure such as human and intellectual capital disclosure and financial and capital market disclosure do not appear to have any significant influence on the same. Overall, the finding suggests that voluntary disclosure made by sample firms is considered relevant by investors. However, value relevance of different components of voluntary disclosure varies with the nature and extent of information disclosed. The study offers some important policy implications.

Ownership as a determinant of chairperson activity: a study of Nordic listed companies

2015 ◽  
Vol 7 (4) ◽  
pp. 412-428
Author(s):  
Tor Brunzell ◽  
Jarkko Peltomäki
Keyword(s):  
Working Hours ◽  
Chief Executive ◽  
Ownership Concentration ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Listed Firms ◽  
Concentrated Ownership ◽  
The Board Of Directors ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The Empirical Analysis ◽  
A Company

Purpose – The purpose of this study is to explicitly focus on the roles of ownership concentration, ownership by the board, the chief executive officer (CEO) and the chairperson in the involvement and capabilities of chairpersons and other governors in their work. Design/methodology/approach – In this study, the authors investigate the impact of the concentration of ownership, the ownership of the board, the CEO and the chairperson on the chairperson’s activity when the roles of the chairperson and the CEO are separated The empirical analysis of this study is based on a survey sent to Nordic listed firms. Findings – The results show that the ownership characteristics of a company are important in determining the chairperson’s working hours, the chairperson’s communication with the CEO and the performance of governance activity. In addition, the authors found that while the ownership of the chairperson and the board of directors and ownership concentration improve governance activity, CEO ownership may undermine governance activity. Research limitations/implications – The primary implication of the study is that both ownership by internal governors and ownership concentration play an important role in determining the involvement of internal corporate governors. Originality/value – The study provides unique evidence that ownership by the chairperson, concentrated ownership and ownership by the board can potentially mitigate the costs of separating the roles of the chairperson and the CEO.

IMPACT OF CORPORATE GOVERNANCE ON FIRM PERFORMANCE: EVIDENCE FROM PAKISTAN

2021 ◽  
Vol 02 (01) ◽  
pp. 16-28
Author(s):  
Feryal Zafar ◽  
Shaheera Munir ◽  
Muhammad Saqib Khan
Keyword(s):  
Corporate Governance ◽  
Decision Makers ◽  
Annual Reports ◽  
Board Independence ◽  
Negative Effects ◽  
Research Issues ◽  
Listed Firms ◽  
Analysis Technique ◽  
Dependent Variables ◽  
The Relationship

The study attempts to figure out the relationship between the performance of the firms and corporate governance in Pakistan. Governance mechanisms used in this study are CEO duality, Independence of Board, Size of Board, and Ownership Concentration. While, the ROA and ROE have been used as dependent variables to measure the performance of firms. Using regression analysis technique on 10 listed firms trading over four years from 2014-2017, the results have been derived. The data regarding all the variables have been collected from all the companies’ annual reports. The discoveries of the study direct that fundamentals of corporate governance such as the Size of the Board, Ownership, and Duality Concentration of CEO have negative effects on performance of organization, as measured by ROA and ROE. While Board independence positively affects the performance of firms. The results are thus significant and provide valuable information for the decision makers about the research issues under consideration.

The Determinants of Financial Ratio Disclosures and Quality: Evidence from an Emerging market

2015 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 188 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ben k. Agyei-Mensah
Keyword(s):  
Regression Analysis ◽  
Stock Exchange ◽  
Emerging Market ◽  
Negative Relationship ◽  
Ownership Concentration ◽  
Financial Ratios ◽  
Annual Reports ◽  
Executive Directors ◽  
Financial Ratio

This study investigated the influence of firm-specific characteristics which include proportion of Non-Executive Directors, ownership concentration, firm size, profitability, debt equity ratio, liquidity and leverage on the extent and quality of financial ratios disclosed by firms listed on the Ghana Stock Exchange.The research was conducted through detailed analysis of the 2012 financial statements of  the listed firms.  Descriptive analysis was performed to provide the background statistics of the variables examined.  This was followed by regression analysis which forms the main data analysis.  The results of the extent of financial ratio disclosure level, mean of 62.78%, indicate that most of the firms listed on the Ghana Stock Exchange did not overwhelmingly disclose such ratios in their annual reports.  The results of the low quality of financial ratio disclosure mean of 6.64% indicate that the disclosures failed woefully to meet the International Accounting Standards Board's qualitative characteristics of relevance, reliability, comparability and understandability.The results of the multiple regression analysis show that leverage and return on investment are associated on a statistically significant level as far as the extent of financial ratio disclosure is concerned. Board ownership concentration and proportion of (independent) non-executive directors, on the other hand were found to be statistically associated with the quality of financial ratio disclosed. There is a significant negative relationship between ownership concentration and the quality of financial ratio disclosure.  This means that under a higher level of ownership concentration less quality financial ratios are disclosed. The findings also show that there is a significant positive relationship between board composition (proportion of non-executive directors) and the quality of financial ratio disclosure.  JEL CLASSIFICATION: G3, M1, M2, M4.

Audit firms and industry specialization in an emerging economy

2018 ◽  
Vol 14 (3) ◽  
pp. 338-362
Author(s):  
Karim Hegazy ◽  
Mohamed Hegazy
Keyword(s):  
Financial Services ◽  
Capital Investment ◽  
Emerging Economy ◽  
Annual Reports ◽  
Brand Name ◽  
Industry Specialization ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Audit Firm ◽  
Big 4 ◽  
Audit Firms

PurposeThis study aims to investigate the implications of audit industry specialization on auditor’s retention and growth within an emerging economy. Factors such as whether the firm is a Big 4, a firm with international affiliation, a local firm and the type of industry were studied to analyse the reasons behind audit firm retention and growth.Design/methodology/approachThis research is based on a field study related to audit firms providing services to listed companies in an emerging economy. The sample includes the top 100 publicly held companies’ in the Egyptian stock market during 2006-2011 for which their annual reports are analysed to determine the audit firms’ retention and growth. An assessment of the continuity of the auditors and the increase in the number of audit clients were also measured.FindingsThe results confirm that industry specialization has an important effect on the auditor’s retention, especially for industries where capital investment is significant such as buildings, construction, financial services, housing and real estate. Big 4 audit firms retained their clients because of their industry specialization and brand name. Evidence was found that good knowledge of accounting and auditing standards resulted in audit firms with international affiliation competing with the Big 4 for clients’ retention and growth.Originality/valueThis study contributes to the existing literature, as it is among the first to provide empirical evidence on auditor retention, growth and auditor’s dominance in an emerging economy such as Egypt.

scholarly journals Hedging Activities Information and Risk Management Committee Effectiveness: Malaysian evidence

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Azrul Bin Abdullah ◽  
Ku Nor Izah Ku Ismail
Keyword(s):  
Risk Management ◽  
Corporate Governance ◽  
Significant Influence ◽  
Statistical Models ◽  
Voluntary Disclosure ◽  
Annual Reports ◽  
Management Committee ◽  
Corporate Governance Mechanisms ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Risk Management Committee

This study examines the extent of information about hedging activities disclosures within the annual reports of Main Market companies listed on Bursa Malaysia. The extent of hedging activities disclosures is captured through a 32-item-template, which consists of a mandatory and voluntary disclosure scores. The results of this study indicate that the extent of information on hedging activities disclosure is still insufficient among the sampled companies even though the disclosure scored is quite high. This study also examines the relationship between the existence of risk management committee (RMC), its characteristics and the extent of information on hedging activities disclosure in two separate statistical models. The regression results imply that the existence of RMC is positive but does not significantly influence the extent of information on hedging activities disclosure. However its characteristics (i.e. RMC independence and RMC meeting) have a significant influence. The findings may provide some meaningful insights to regulators, policymakers and researchers, towards the establishment of RMC as a part of the internal corporate governance mechanisms. In addition to its existence, the effectiveness of RMC also needs to be emphasised.

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