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.

scholarly journals Relationship between Financial Ratio and Financial Statement Fraud Risk Moderated by Auditor Quality

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (4) ◽  
pp. 34-43
Author(s):  
Tomy Rizky Izzalqurny ◽  
Bambang Subroto ◽  
Abdul Ghofar
Keyword(s):  
Stock Exchange ◽  
Hypothesis Test ◽  
Financial Statements ◽  
Financial Ratios ◽  
Manufacturing Companies ◽  
Financial Statement Fraud ◽  
Financial Ratio ◽  
Fraud Risk ◽  
Auditor Quality

This study was aimed to prove the research hypothesis that there are effects of financial ratios, which consist of profitability, leverage, and liquidity on the financial statements fraud risk, and the quality of auditors are able to moderate the relationship between financial ratios to financial statements fraud. This study uses a population of manufacturing companies that publish their financial statements on the Indonesian Stock Exchange in 2016-2017 will also be summarized and inferred. This study uses purposive sampling so that the study sample amounted to 275 firm years. The dependent variable uses the financial statements fraud risk with the proxy Dechow F-score. The independent variable in this study consisted of profitability with ROA ratio, leverage using the calculation of the ratio of total liabilities to total assets, and liquidity using the calculation of the ratio of total current assets to current liabilities. The moderating variable in this study is auditor quality as a moderating variable with a dummy variable. The Hypothesis test conducted is using moderated regression analysis (MRA). The results of this study indicate that the financial statements fraud risk is influenced by financial liquidity ratios, while financial ratios of profitability and leverage have not been proven to affect financial report fraud. This study provides a contribution by providing evidence that the quality of auditors can suppress fraudulent actions on financial statements with low profitability. This research provides information to regulators to pay more attention to companies that experience liquidity problems, and become input for regulators to make rules that improve the quality of auditors.

scholarly journals STUDY OF CONSISTENCY AND PROFITABILITY THROUGH FINANCIAL RATIO ANALYSIS IN PLANTATIONS INDUSTRY IN SRI LANKA

2020 ◽  
pp. 34-39
Author(s):  
Kesara Prabhashwary Hewage
Keyword(s):  
Sri Lanka ◽  
Significant Variation ◽  
Stock Exchange ◽  
Listed Companies ◽  
Component Composition ◽  
Financial Ratios ◽  
Annual Reports ◽  
Ratio Analysis ◽  
Financial Ratio ◽  
Selection Of

Purpose - This paper aims to examine financial ratio disclosure in annual reports, and the degree to which the primary ratio components differ between and within the firms, and the stability of ratios over a period of time, moreover the relationship between the companies’ profitability, leverage and liquidity. Design/Methodology/Approach - Out of 297 public listed companies in Colombo Stock Exchange, financial ratios which are presented voluntarily in the annual reports of 18 public listed companies in Plantations Industry in Sri Lanka, from 2013 to 2017 were examined. Findings - Findings indicate that there is a significant variation in financial ratio component composition through firms in Plantations Industry. Further Earnings per Share, Interest Cover and Net Asset per Share are stable over a period of time across firms while Current Ratio, Debt to Equity and Return on Equity are not and that there is a positive relationship between Leverage and Liquidity with profitability in firms. Practical Implications - The significant variation in financial ratio component composition might imply the incompetency of Financial Statement preparers in selection of proper components in calculation of financial ratios and as well might imply the intended manipulation by them through deliberate wrong selection of components. Originality/Value - This paper provides support to those financial analysts and investors who rely much on financial ratios presented in companies’ annual reports. Further identification of factors affecting to profitability of companies will enrich companies with useful information for decision making purpose. KEYWORDS - Financial Ratios; Ratio Analysis; Annual Reports

scholarly journals Ownership Structure and Dividends Policy: Emerging Market Evidence

2018 ◽  
Vol 11 (6) ◽  
pp. 65
Author(s):  
Ahmad N. Obaidat
Keyword(s):  
Board Of Directors ◽  
Ownership Structure ◽  
Positive Relationship ◽  
Stock Exchange ◽  
Emerging Market ◽  
Negative Relationship ◽  
Ownership Concentration ◽  
Financial Firms ◽  
Amman Stock Exchange ◽  
The Board Of Directors

This study investigated the effect of ownership structure on the dividend policy of the financial firms listed on Amman Stock Exchange (ASE) for the period 2014-2016. The results indicated a positive relationship between dividend and institutional, managerial, and foreign ownership, and negative relationship between dividend and ownership concentration. The result also indicated that a large portion of the ownership is in the hand of the instructions and the board of directors, and the ownership is not highly concentrated.

scholarly journals Discretionary Disclosure of Listed Non‑Financial Firms in an Emerging Market: Evidence from Ghana

2019 ◽  
Vol 67 (3) ◽  
pp. 823-837
Author(s):  
Abdul Mansulu ◽  
Daniel Anarfi
Keyword(s):  
Corporate Governance ◽  
Voluntary Disclosure ◽  
Audit Committee ◽  
Emerging Market ◽  
Negative Relationship ◽  
Positive Association ◽  
Annual Reports ◽  
Executive Directors ◽  
Board Size ◽  
Financial Firms

The main objectives of this study are to measure the extent of voluntary disclosure of listed non‑financial firms in Ghana. The paper also seeks to identify the corporate governance attributes that influence voluntary disclosure, and finally, it rated the importance of voluntary items in the annual reports from the viewpoint of investors in Ghana. The paper makes use of 2013 to 2016 annual reports for 17 firms. The corporate governance attributes examined are board size, the proportion of independent non‑executive directors on the board, blockholder ownership and the audit committee. Five control variables were also used to support the study. We developed a total of 66 voluntary items. Both the simple frequency distribution and Stata software were employed to analyze the data. The findings revealed a mean of 32.7% as the level of voluntary disclosure. Board size, block holder ownership and audit committee had a positive association but only board size was statistically significant. The proportion of independent non‑executive directors had an insignificant negative relationship. Concerning the rating of the importance of the voluntary items, items under financial information were more of concern to investors. There are benefits that the findings provide which will be useful to investors, preparers of financial statements and regulators. The study reveals the corporate governance attribute(s) that influence corporate disclosure and points out the level of transparency if the level of disclosure is used as a proxy.

scholarly journals The quality of disclosure in the annual reports: Evidence from an emerging market

2011 ◽  
Vol 8 (3) ◽  
pp. 209-213
Author(s):  
Muhammad Nurul Houqe ◽  
Tahmin Fatema Islam
Keyword(s):  
Stock Exchange ◽  
Emerging Market ◽  
Listed Companies ◽  
Annual Reports ◽  
Reporting Practices ◽  
Disclosure Practice

This paper aims at determining the quality of disclosure in the annual reports of the listed companies in the Dhaka Stock Exchange Ltd. by applying the Singhvi and Desai (1971) index over the twenty seven selected companies of the "Food and Allied" and "Engineering" sector. The twenty-seven companies use the index to describe the trend of reporting practices for the years 2007 and 2008. We find that most of the companies are very much consistent in their disclosure practice. But a very few companies tried to enhance the quality of disclosure over the years.

The Effect of Bankruptcy Possibility on Audit Delay and Timeliness (Empirical Study on Manufacturing Companies Listed in Indonesian Stock Exchange in the Period of 2012-2016)

2019 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 118-146
Author(s):  
Triana Meinarsih ◽  
Abdul Yusuf ◽  
Muhammad Zilal Hamzah
Keyword(s):  
Quantitative Research ◽  
Stock Exchange ◽  
Secondary Data ◽  
Annual Reports ◽  
Manufacturing Companies ◽  
Z Score ◽  
Quality Of Accounting Information ◽  
Independent Variable ◽  
A Company

Audit delay and timeliness are important factors that influence the quality of accounting information in term of relevance. This study provides empirical evidence to answer the question of how bankruptcy possibility impacts on audit delay and timeliness.  This research studies manufacturing firms listed in Indonesian Stock Exchange (IDX) in the period of 2012-2016. Data are taken from official website of IDX. This study is a quantitative research that seek to find out relationship between independent variable and dependent variable. External secondary data used are annual reports accessed from IDX website. Measurement used is Z-Score Altman model prediction, while simple linear regression is employed as technical analysis. This study finds that bankruptcy possibility which is measured by ZScore is negatively influence audit delay and timeliness. Any decrease of Z-Score shows the possibility of a company experience bankruptcy and therefore causes audit delay and timeliness.

scholarly journals The Relationship between Liquidity and Firms’ Profitability: A Case Study of Karachi Stock Exchange

2017 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 54 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nazish Bibi ◽  
Shehla Amjad
Keyword(s):  
Regression Analysis ◽  
Stock Exchange ◽  
Negative Relationship ◽  
Return On Assets ◽  
Current Ratio ◽  
Factors Affecting ◽  
Operating Income ◽  
Secondary Sources ◽  
Individual Variables ◽  
The Relationship

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the relationship between firm’s liquidity and profitability; and to find out the effects of different components of liquidity on firms’ profitability.The relationship between liquidity and firms’ profitability is empirically examined by collecting the data of 50 listed firms of Karachi Stock Exchange, Pakistan. Panel data has been collected from secondary sources for the year 2007 to 2011 .Net operating income and Return on assets are used measure of firm’s profitability. Liquidity of the firm is measured by using cash gap in days and current ratio. Firm size measured by net sales, total assets and market capitalization .The study applies regression analysis to determine factors affecting profitability. Incremental tests are carried out to see the importance of individual variables in the model.The results of correlation and regression analysis showed that there is a significant negative relationship between cash gap and return on assets while current ratio has significant positive relationship with profitability. Results further indicate that log of sales and log of total assets has positive significant relationship with profitability. The findings of this study are based on firms listed on the Karachi Stock Exchange (KSE). Hence, the results cannot be generalizable to those firms which are not listed on Karachi stock exchange. The sample of the study comprises only the merchandising and manufacturing firms. Banks are excluded due to their nature of work.

A Study Relationship between Firm Performance and Dividend Policy by Fuzzy Regression: Iranian scenario

2013 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 70
Author(s):  
Seyed Hasan Salehnezhad
Keyword(s):  
Regression Analysis ◽  
Stock Returns ◽  
Dividend Policy ◽  
Functional Relationship ◽  
Stock Exchange ◽  
Negative Relationship ◽  
Decision Makers ◽  
Fuzzy Regression ◽  
Independent Variables ◽  
Fuzzy Environment

Fuzzy regression analysis is an extension of the classical regression analysis that is used in evaluating the functional relationship between the dependent and independent variables in a fuzzy environment. Accounting dividend is the most important information used by decision makers in the economic analysis. This research investigated corporate governance and dividend policy in listed company's Tehran Stock exchange by fuzzy regression during 2010 and 2012. The results indicated that significant and positive relationship exists between financial performance (stock returns) and dividend policy and also there was a significant and negative relationship exists between economic performance (EVA) and dividend policy. Furthermore, a significant relationship exists between controlling variable (size) and dividend policy.

scholarly journals How does corporate voluntary disclosure affect asymmetric information and adverse selection?

2015 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 413-425 ◽  
Author(s):  
Amal Hamrouni ◽  
Anthony Miloudi ◽  
Ramzi Benkraiem
Keyword(s):  
Asymmetric Information ◽  
Adverse Selection ◽  
Voluntary Disclosure ◽  
Stock Exchange ◽  
Negative Relationship ◽  
Annual Reports ◽  
Strategic Information ◽  
Information Measures ◽  
Adverse Selection Costs ◽  
Bid Ask Spreads

This paper investigates whether the extent of corporate voluntary disclosure mitigates asymmetric information and adverse selection in the Euronext Paris stock exchange. We apply a disclosure index as a proxy for the extent of voluntary disclosure and use different spread measures to estimate both asymmetric information and adverse selection. Our findings show a negative relationship between the disclosure index and asymmetric information and adverse selection proxies. An analysis of sub-indexes provides additional mixed results. Several asymmetric information measures are negatively related to the volume of financial, non-financial and voluntary governance information in corporate annual reports. Nevertheless, the effect of strategic information volume is statistically significant only for effective bid-ask spreads. On the whole, these results are consistent with the view that high corporate voluntary disclosure is associated with narrow spreads and low adverse selection costs

scholarly journals PENGARUH KEPEMILIKAN INSTITUSIONAL, KOMPETENSI DEWAN KOMISARIS DAN KUALITAS AUDITOR PADA NILAI PERUSAHAAN

2017 ◽  
pp. 3379
Author(s):  
Cok Istri Ratna Sari Dewi ◽  
Ni Made Dwi Ratnadi ◽  
Maria M. Ratna Sari
Keyword(s):  
Firm Value ◽  
Stock Price ◽  
Stock Exchange ◽  
Sample Selection ◽  
Secondary Data ◽  
Sampling Technique ◽  
Institutional Ownership ◽  
Annual Reports ◽  
Positive Effects

High firm value will increase the prosperity of shareholders. The higher the stock price, the higher the firm value could be. Generally investors will hand over its management to the professionals to achieve the company’s goal which is to increase the firm values. This study aims to examine the influence of institutional ownership, the competence of board of commissioners and the quality of auditor on firm values. The analyzed data is secondary data, taken from financial statements and annual reports of companies that listed in Indonesia Stock Exchange from 2012-2015. The sample selection determined by using purposive sampling technique, 48 companies were acquired. Multiple linear regression techniques were used to analyze the data. The results showed that institutional ownership, the competence of board of commissioners and the quality of auditor have positive effects on firm values.

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