scholarly journals Assessment of the Mandatory Non-Financial Reporting of Romanian Companies in the Circular Economy Context

2021 ◽  
Vol 18 (24) ◽  
pp. 12899
Author(s):  
Camelia-Daniela Hategan ◽  
Ruxandra-Ioana Pitorac ◽  
Nicoleta-Daniela Milu
Keyword(s):  
Social Responsibility ◽  
Financial Reporting ◽  
Circular Economy ◽  
Listed Company ◽  
Generalized Least Squares ◽  
Return On Assets ◽  
Return On Equity ◽  
Corporate Social ◽  
The Empirical Analysis

Between the circular economy and corporate social responsibility, there is an ever-closer connection. Non-financial reporting of social responsibility actions is based on the circular economy concept, so reporting contributes to increasing the level of disclosure of circular strategies. In this context, large companies are required to report non-financial information to understand their activities better. The paper’s objective is to assess the mandatory non-financial reporting of Romanian companies active in the non-financial sector for 2017–2019. The empirical analysis consisted of creating and awarding an evaluation score to the reports of the companies. An econometric model was tested using a feasible generalized least squares (FGLS) regression to identify the link of the obtained Score with a series of variables representing the characteristics of the companies: Information on a website (I), Foreign ownership (F), Private ownership (P), Listed company (L), Return on assets (ROA), and Return on equity (ROE). Research results highlight a positive correlation between Score and all variables statistically significant in the model. Our study empirically validated the link between non-financial reporting and financial performance. The practical implications for managers can be to focus on improving the quality of non-financial reporting by better presenting the sustainability actions in a circular economy context.

Corporate social responsibility and earnings management in the EU: a panel data analysis approach

2020 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Panagiotis E. Dimitropoulos
Keyword(s):  
Corporate Social Responsibility ◽  
Panel Data ◽  
Social Responsibility ◽  
Earnings Management ◽  
Financial Reporting ◽  
Negative Association ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Corporate Social ◽  
The Eu

Purpose Over the past decades, corporate social responsibility (CSR) has been considered as a significant corporate strategy and also has been documented as a main information dissemination mechanism of corporations to shareholders, creditors and other external stakeholders. This fact makes the CSR activities and CSR performance interconnected with the quality of firms’ financial reporting. The purpose of this paper is to study the impact of CSR performance on the earnings management (EM) behaviour using a sample from 24 European Union (EU) countries summing up to 121,154 firm-year observations over the period 2003–2018. Design/methodology/approach The study uses a multi-country data set with various dimensions of CSR performance including indexes regarding workforce, community relations, product responsibility and human rights protection. The empirical analysis is conducted with panel data regressions. Findings Evidence supports the negative association between CSR and EM indicating that high CSR performing firms are associated with less income smoothing and discretionary accruals, thus with higher financial reporting quality. Practical implications Regulatory agencies in the EU could use the findings of the study for the improvement of the accounting framework via enhancing the use and publications of social and environmental responsibility information and reports. Social implications Also, the current paper could be of interest not only to academic researchers but also to potential and existing investors in European corporations. The negative association between CSR performance and EM could be used by investors in assessing the risk of firms and the quality and reliability of their financial information. Originality/value This is the first study within the EU, which considers the multi-facet characteristics of CSR on the quality of accounting earnings and offers useful policy implications for regulators and investors.

scholarly journals Corporate Social Responsibility, Audit Committee Expertise, and Financial Reporting: Empirical Evidence from Korea

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (19) ◽  
pp. 10517
Author(s):  
Haeyoung Ryu ◽  
Soo-Joon Chae ◽  
Bomi Song
Keyword(s):  
Corporate Social Responsibility ◽  
Social Responsibility ◽  
Financial Reporting ◽  
Audit Committee ◽  
Earnings Quality ◽  
Audit Committees ◽  
Accounting Expertise ◽  
Corporate Social

Corporate social responsibility (CSR) involves multiple activities and is influenced by the cultural and legal environment of the country in which a firm is located. This study examines the role of audit committees’ (AC) financial expertise in the relationship between CSR and the earnings quality of Korean firms with high levels of CSR. Using a multivariate analysis, it investigates whether the ACs that include members with accounting expertise, finance expertise, or supervisory expertise individually affect a firm’s decision making. It also examines how ACs with diverse expertise contribute toward improving the financial reporting quality of firms with high levels of CSR. The results demonstrate that when there is a certified accountant in the AC of a firm that practices CSR based on ethical motivation, the earnings management through discretionary accruals is more strictly controlled. This is more effective when the AC comprises members with accounting and non-accounting expertise. This finding implies that the AC plays a positive role in improving the accounting information quality of firms with CSR excellence. Moreover, while the role of accounting experts in the AC is important for maintaining high earnings quality, combining other types of expertise creates synergy.

scholarly journals Market Responsiveness to Corporate Social Responsibility

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (4) ◽  
pp. 114
Author(s):  
Zev Fried
Keyword(s):  
Corporate Social Responsibility ◽  
Social Responsibility ◽  
Financial Reporting ◽  
Perceived Quality ◽  
Financial Information ◽  
Factors Affecting ◽  
Earnings Response Coefficients ◽  
Corporate Social ◽  
The Impact

Market reaction to surprises in earnings announcements has long been used to measure the quality of the information content of the announcement, and studies have explored various factors affecting the response. This study adds to this body of research by factoring in the level of corporate social responsibility (CSR) exhibited by the firm and employs a relatively new measure of a company’s level of CSR, rankings published by JUST Capital. I hypothesize that financial information reported by higher ranked companies is weighed more heavily by investors than those reported by non-ranked or lower-ranked companies. Using earnings response coefficients as a measure of the perceived quality of the financial information reported by the firms, my results provide direct support of the hypothesis, indicating that the market reacts more strongly to earnings surprises for firms with high JUST rankings than for unranked firms or firms with lower rankings. This result contributes new insights into the impact of a firm’s CSR in terms of the perceived quality of a firm’s financial reporting.

scholarly journals Corporate Social Responsibility and Crowdfunding: The Experience of the Colectual Platform in Empowering Economic and Sustainable Projects

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (13) ◽  
pp. 5251 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jesús Mauricio Flórez-Parra ◽  
Gracia Rubio Martín ◽  
Carmen Rapallo Serrano
Keyword(s):  
Corporate Social Responsibility ◽  
Social Responsibility ◽  
Financial Risk ◽  
Sustainable Business ◽  
Return On Assets ◽  
Financial Barriers ◽  
Return On Equity ◽  
Financial Characteristics ◽  
Corporate Social ◽  
The Cost

In recent years, sustainable crowdfunding has been one of the key elements in the search for new sources of financing. This has involved eliminating financial barriers and intermediaries, bringing entrepreneurs’ projects closer to fund providers, and thus instigating changes in traditional investment and profitability parameters. Among these indicators, the sustainable business return and its relationship with Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) could be a relevant factor to improve the cost of funding, to explain the return on assets (ROA), and, consequently, impacting on the return on equity (ROE). In this context, this paper takes as a reference 101 projects that are part of Colectual’s lending. We analyze factors such as sustainability—the application of CSR across a social responsibility index; the financial characteristics of the company—liquidity, leverage, and solvency; and the characteristics of the loans related to crowdfunding—amount, maturity, and charge rate of the loan. Our study provides empirical evidence that, besides financial characteristics, the commitment to CSR can improve collective lending and the management of resources, as well as enhance the capital wealth of companies, by improving shareholder profitability or ROE. Investors consider not only financial risk but also sustainability factors.

scholarly journals Pengungkapan Corporate Social Responsibility dan Kinerja Keuangan Perusahaan Perbankan

2021 ◽  
Vol 31 (7) ◽  
pp. 1655
Author(s):  
Ni Made Widyasari ◽  
Ketut Yadnyana
Keyword(s):  
Corporate Social Responsibility ◽  
Social Responsibility ◽  
Financial Performance ◽  
Return On Assets ◽  
Return On Equity ◽  
Panel Data Regression ◽  
Analysis Technique ◽  
Data Regression ◽  
Csr Disclosure ◽  
Corporate Social

A company Development can made the ekspoitation of natural resources to be higher, so it is important for the companies to carry out CSR activities. This study aims to determine the effect of corporate social responsibility disclosure on financial performance in Bank sector as proxied by eeturn on assets (ROA) and return on equity (ROE). The sample was obtained using purposive sampling method and the number of research samples was 19 companies with a total of 95 observations. The data analysis technique in this study was panel data regression analysis. The results show that corporate social responsibility (CSR) disclosure has a positive and significant effect on financial performance in bank sector as proxied by return on assets (ROA) and return on equity (ROE). The implication of this research can contribute to the empirical study of stakeholder theory and equity theory. The implication of this research is that it can be taken into consideration in decision making by stakeholders and company management. Keywords: CSR Disclosure; ROA; ROE.

The informational component of corporate social responsibility assessment: Results of empirical research

2021 ◽  
Vol 20 (11) ◽  
pp. 2089-2112
Author(s):  
Ol'ga V. EFIMOVA ◽  
Ol'ga V. ROZHNOVA
Keyword(s):  
Corporate Social Responsibility ◽  
Social Responsibility ◽  
Financial Reporting ◽  
Information Disclosure ◽  
Social Problems ◽  
Systems Approach ◽  
Social Information ◽  
Financial Statements ◽  
Corporate Social

Subject. We consider completeness and quality of social information disclosure for systematic presentation of corporate social responsibility of organizations in financial and public non-financial reporting. Objectives. The aim is to present a comprehensive research of information component of social responsibility of Russian large business enterprises, based on the analysis of their financial and non-financial reporting information. Methods. We employed methods of logical, statistical, comparative, and linguistic analysis. We also analyzed financial and public non-financial reports of Russian metallurgical companies. Special attention was paid to the availability and completeness of presented social disclosures. The study investigates annual financial statements and public non-financial statements for 2018–2020. Results. We offer a systems approach to the study and assessment of social responsibility, based on the analysis of the content of selected indicators, formulate recommendations that are necessary to increase the social responsibility of companies through improving the quality of content of reporting information and its orientation to solving global social problems. The findings enabled to reveal the areas of social information disclosure that are most significant for increasing the validity of investment decisions. Conclusions. The identified top social problems are in the focus of attention of economic entities; the dynamics of the quality of disclosures in corporate reports over the past three years has been positive. The trend in the development of non-financial reporting standards in terms of completeness and comprehensive nature of social disclosures enables to count on gradual overcoming of existing problems.

scholarly journals DOES CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY ENHANCE RETURN ON ASSETS? EVIDENCE FROM MANUFACTURING FIRM IN NIGERIA

2016 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 2058-2059
Author(s):  
Nwankwo Carol ◽  
Onyeka Virginia Nnenna ◽  
Chukwuani Victoria Nnenna
Keyword(s):  
Corporate Social Responsibility ◽  
Social Responsibility ◽  
Empirical Research ◽  
Economic Performance ◽  
Return On Assets ◽  
Manufacturing Firm ◽  
Return On Equity ◽  
Manufacturing Organizations ◽  
Corporate Social ◽  
The Impact

The empirical research into the impact of CSR on return on  assets is confusing and far from conclusive. Also in most ofthe previous studies; economic performance covered a (commonly five year) period “surrounding” the CSR performanceand/or social disclosure periods. To overcome these limitations, our paper assess the impact of CSR return on assets ofmanufacturing firms in Nigeria. The result showed that with CSR, corporate social responsibility had a positive and significant effect on return on assets of the manufacturing organizations while without CSR, the impact is negative and non-significant. The implication is that what companies spend on the development of society of interest may be related toreturn on equity but does not significantly detect increase/decrease in return on equity. This study thus posits thatmanufacturing organizations should concentrate evenly also on other elements which organization see mainly as majordeterminants of return on assets as the finding is showing an insignificant effect of CSR on ROA.

scholarly journals The Influence of Corporate Social Responsibility toward the Financial Performance Company in Jakarta Islamic Index (JII) in Period 2010-2014

2016 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 136
Author(s):  
P. Prasojo ◽  
Inon Listyorini
Keyword(s):  
Corporate Social Responsibility ◽  
Social Responsibility ◽  
Financial Performance ◽  
Control Variable ◽  
Return On Assets ◽  
Return On Equity ◽  
Corporate Social

The aim of this research is to examine the influence of corporate sosical responsibility (CSR) toward the financial performance that is measured by Return on Assets (ROA), Return on Equity (ROE), Earning Per Share (EPS),  Firm's Growth (FG) and the control variable of Siz, Leverage, and Age. The population in this research was the companies in Jakarta Islamic Index (JII) consistently from 2010-2014. The samples were selected by Purposive Judgment sampling criteria. The collected samples in this research were 11 companies. The result of CSR research has a significant on financial performance by proxy ROA, ROE, EPS, and FG.

Correlation Between Banks Corporate Social Responsibility And Profitability: A Study of UAE, Bangladesh and India

2017 ◽  
Vol 7 (02) ◽  
Author(s):  
Sonia Singh ◽  
Sameer Al Barghouthi
Keyword(s):  
Corporate Social Responsibility ◽  
Social Responsibility ◽  
Commercial Bank ◽  
Commercial Banks ◽  
Negative Coefficient ◽  
Weak Correlation ◽  
Return On Assets ◽  
Return On Equity ◽  
Study Methodology ◽  
Corporate Social

The purpose of the study was to correlate bank investments into Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) initiatives with the financial performance of profitability measured as Return on Assets (RAO) or Return on Equity (ROE). The selected bank from UAE was Abu Dhabi Commercial Bank (ADCB). From Bangladesh, the selected Public Commercial Banks were Dutch-Bangla Bank Ltd. (DBBL) and Islami Bank Bangladesh Ltd (IBBL) and selected State-Owned Banks are Janata Bank Ltd (JBL) and Rupali Bank Ltd. (RBL). From India, the selected banks were ICICI and Axis. The study methodology was KLD Research Analytics and Correlation Coefficient of the Year on Year (YoY) change of the CSR versus profits. There were result outcomes across all these tests. The YoY comparison for ADCB from UAE shows a negative coefficient but strengthening the correlation between CSR and profitability over the five year period. The YoY comparison of ICICI for CSR % to profitability impact had weak correlation and fluctuating coefficient. The YoY comparison for Axis bank showed that the correlation between CSR expenditure and profit is largely positive and the coefficient is also significant. The comparison for PCBs DBBL and IBBL revealed that there was a positive correlation with the profitability, but the YoY CSR% to profitability change shows a weak coefficient. The comparison between the State-Owned Banks JBL and RBL shows that the YoY comparison of CSR% to profitability has a weak correlation but insignificant coefficient. In conclusion, banks should undertake ethical CSR when pursuing profitability.

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