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Author : Jeff Coulton
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780994369734
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (697 download)
Download or read book The RISE and RISE of NON-GAAP DISCLOSURE written by Jeff Coulton and published by . This book was released on 2016-11-24 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Linda Campbell
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (13 download)
Download or read book Small Cap Financial Reporting written by Linda Campbell and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study examines the determinants of emphasis on non-GAAP disclosures in the earnings announcements of small cap companies. Two proxies of non-GAAP information emphasis are investigated -- placement of the first non-GAAP disclosure and placement of the non-GAAP to GAAP reconciliation required by Regulation G. Using hand-collected data from fourth quarter press releases, we find evidence indicating that small cap firms place a higher level of emphasis on non-GAAP financial measures when GAAP earnings suggest lower value-relevance and when their shares are owned by a higher proportion of institutional investors. We also find that small cap companies decrease the level of emphasis placed on non-GAAP information as their listing tenure increases.
Author : Baruch Lev
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1119191084
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (191 download)
Download or read book The End of Accounting and the Path Forward for Investors and Managers written by Baruch Lev and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2016-06-14 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An innovative new valuation framework with truly useful economic indicators The End of Accounting and the Path Forward for Investors and Managers shows how the ubiquitous financial reports have become useless in capital market decisions and lays out an actionable alternative. Based on a comprehensive, large-sample empirical analysis, this book reports financial documents' continuous deterioration in relevance to investors' decisions. An enlightening discussion details the reasons why accounting is losing relevance in today's market, backed by numerous examples with real-world impact. Beyond simply identifying the problem, this report offers a solution—the Value Creation Report—and demonstrates its utility in key industries. New indicators focus on strategy and execution to identify and evaluate a company's true value-creating resources for a more up-to-date approach to critical investment decision-making. While entire industries have come to rely on financial reports for vital information, these documents are flawed and insufficient when it comes to the way investors and lenders work in the current economic climate. This book demonstrates an alternative, giving you a new framework for more informed decision making. Discover a new, comprehensive system of economic indicators Focus on strategic, value-creating resources in company valuation Learn how traditional financial documents are quickly losing their utility Find a path forward with actionable, up-to-date information Major corporate decisions, such as restructuring and M&A, are predicated on financial indicators of profitability and asset/liabilities values. These documents move mountains, so what happens if they're based on faulty indicators that fail to show the true value of the company? The End of Accounting and the Path Forward for Investors and Managers shows you the reality and offers a new blueprint for more accurate valuation.
Author : Lori L. Epping
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (551 download)
Download or read book U.S.- Listed Foreign Firms' Non-GAAP Financial Performance Disclosure Behavior written by Lori L. Epping and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Abstract: The increasing presence of foreign listings on U.S. exchanges provides additional investment opportunities but also increases the need for an understanding of the risks and rewards associated with these investments. The purpose of this study is to observe the extent to which U.S.-listed foreign firms report non-GAAP financial performance measures and to compare the characteristics of these disclosures to those of U.S. firms. The information provided by non-GAAP financial performance measures, as reported in press releases, has the potential to influence investor perceptions of firm performance in a misleading manner. Using a matched-sample design, this research compares U.S.-listed foreign firm and U.S. firm non-GAAP financial performance disclosure frequency, non-GAAP disclosure adjustment characteristics, reconciliation quality, and strategic non-GAAP disclosures. Tests of the hypotheses indicate similar disclosure frequencies for U.S. firms and U.S.-listed foreign firms. In addition, non-GAAP disclosure and adjustment characteristics that proxy intent to influence investor perceptions of firm performance are examined. Analyses of these disclosure characteristics provides evidence consistent with the interpretation that U.S. firms engage in aggressive non-GAAP reporting behaviors (providing disclosures to influence investor perceptions of firm performance in a misleading manner) equally or more so than U.S.-listed foreign firms. U.S. firms make larger adjustments to GAAP earnings to arrive at non-GAAP earnings than do U.S.-listed foreign firms. Similarly, U.S. firms make a higher number of adjustments to GAAP earnings to arrive at non-GAAP earnings than do U.S.-listed foreign firms. However, the likelihood of reporting income-increasing adjustments and the ratio of recurring adjustments to total adjustments were not found to be different for U.S. firms and U.S.-listed foreign firms. Inconsistent with this result is the finding that the quality of U.S. firm reconciliations is equal to or greater than that of U.S.-listed foreign firms. Investor protection, through a country's legal system and regulatory environment, impacts reporting behaviors. Regulation G addresses reconciliation quality, yet allows limited compliance exceptions for foreign registrants. Consequently, it appears that U.S. firms provide reconciliations of equal or greater quality than U.S.-listed foreign firms. Other non-GAAP disclosure behaviors lack regulation. Without regulation, it appears that U.S. firms show more signs of aggressive non-GAAP disclosure behavior than U.S.-listed foreign firms.
Author : Christian Röllin
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (17 download)
Download or read book Non-GAAP Earnings Disclosures and the Role of Institutional Investors written by Christian Röllin and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Master's thesis studies the information quality of non-GAAP earnings disclosed by S&P 500 firms for a recent four-year time period and subsequently uses the disclosure of these voluntary, unaudited, and not uniformly defined numbers as a setting to assess the influence of a particular mechanism of corporate governance - institutional ownership. Examining 1'387 full-year press releases and identifying 1'021 disclosures of non-GAAP EPS numbers made by a total of 296 firms, this thesis finds that more than 70% of the firms studied reported a non-GAAP EPS number in their full-year press releases in all of the four fiscal years (i.e., 2012-2015) analyzed. Besides, a pronounced increase in the spread between GAAP and non-GAAP earnings numbers is observed. Using a pooled regression model, it is found that some of the exclusions made by firms when calculating non-GAAP EPS numbers are not completely transitory. This can be viewed as a signal of reduced quality of non-GAAP earnings and the potential presence of opportunistic motives among some reporting firms. Despite the appealing notion that institutional investors can exert significant influence on corporate management, extended pooled regression models taking into account the aspect of institutional ownership do not yield any conclusive evidence of an association between the level of institutional ownership and the information quality of non-GAAP earnings.
Author : Vijay Govindarajan
Publisher : Harvard Business Review Press
ISBN 13 : 1633690156
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (336 download)
Download or read book The Three-Box Solution written by Vijay Govindarajan and published by Harvard Business Review Press. This book was released on 2016-04-26 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How to Innovate and Execute Leaders already know that innovation calls for a different set of activities, skills, methods, metrics, mind-sets, and leadership approaches. And it is well understood that creating a new business and optimizing an already existing one are two fundamentally different management challenges. The real problem for leaders is doing both, simultaneously. How do you meet the performance requirements of the existing business—one that is still thriving—while dramatically reinventing it? How do you envision a change in your current business model before a crisis forces you to abandon it? Innovation guru Vijay Govindarajan expands the leader’s innovation tool kit with a simple and proven method for allocating the organization’s energy, time, and resources—in balanced measure—across what he calls “the three boxes”: • Box 1: The present—Manage the core business at peak profitability • Box 2: The past—Abandon ideas, practices, and attitudes that could inhibit innovation • Box 3: The future—Convert breakthrough ideas into new products and businesses The three-box framework makes leading innovation easier because it gives leaders a simple vocabulary and set of tools for managing and measuring these different sets of behaviors and activities across all levels of the organization. Supported with rich company examples—GE, Mahindra & Mahindra, Hasbro, IBM, United Rentals, and Tata Consultancy Services—and testimonies of leaders who have successfully used this framework, this book solves once and for all the practical dilemma of how to align an organization on the critical but competing demands of innovation.
Author : Charles W. Mulford
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 0470495316
Total Pages : 422 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (74 download)
Download or read book The Financial Numbers Game written by Charles W. Mulford and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2011-03-10 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Praise for The Financial Numbers Game "So much for the notion 'those who can, do-those who can't, teach.' Mulford and Comiskey function successfully both as college professors and real-world financial mercenaries. These guys know their balance sheets. The Financial Numbers Game should serve as a survival manual for both serious individual investors and industry pros who study and act upon the interpretation of financial statements. This unique blend of battle-earned scholarship and quality writing is a must-read/must-have reference for serious financial statement analysis." --Bob Acker, Editor/Publisher, The Acker Letter "Wall Street's unforgiving attention to quarterly earnings presents ever increasing pressure on CFOs to manage earnings and expectations. The Financial Numbers Game provides a clear explanation of the ways in which management can stretch, bend, and break accounting rules to reach the desired bottom line. This arms the serious investor or financial analyst with the healthy skepticism required to drive beyond reported results to a clear understanding of a firm's true performance." --Mark Hurley, Managing Director, Training and Development, Global Corporate and Investment Banking, Bank of America "After reading The Financial Numbers Game, I feel as though I've taken a master's level course in financial statement analysis. Mulford and Comiskey's latest book should be required reading for anyone who is serious about fundamentally analyzing stocks." --Harry Domash, San Francisco Chronicle investing columnist and investment newsletter publisher
Author : George Benston
Publisher : Brookings Institution Press
ISBN 13 : 9780815708919
Total Pages : 154 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (89 download)
Download or read book Following the Money written by George Benston and published by Brookings Institution Press. This book was released on 2004-05-13 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Brookings Institution Press and American Enterprise Institute publication A few years ago, Americans held out their systems of corporate governance and financial disclosure as models to be emulated by the rest of the world. But in late 2001 U.S. policymakers and corporate leaders found themselves facing the largest corporate accounting scandals in American history. The spectacular collapses of Enron and Worldcom—as well as the discovery of accounting irregularities at other large U.S. companies—seemed to call into question the efficacy of the entire system of corporate governance in the United States. In response, Congress quickly enacted a comprehensive package of reform measures in what has come to be known as the Sarbanes-Oxley Act. The New York Stock Exchange and the NASDAQ followed by making fundamental changes to their listing requirements. The private sector acted as well. Accounting firms—watching in horror as one of their largest, Arthur Andersen, collapsed after a criminal conviction for document shredding—tightened their auditing procedures. Stock analysts and ratings agencies, hit hard by a series of disclosures about their failings, changed their practices as well. Will these reforms be enough? Are some counterproductive? Are other shortcomings in the disclosure system still in need of correction? These are among the questions that George Benston, Michael Bromwich, Robert E. Litan, and Alfred Wagenhofer address in Following the Money. While the authors agree that the U.S. system of corporate disclosure and governance is in need of change, they are concerned that policymakers may be overreacting in some areas and taking actions in others that may prove to be ineffective or even counterproductive. Using the Enron case as a point of departure, the authors argue that the major problem lies not in the accounting and auditing standards themselves, but in the system of enforcing those standards.
Author : Thomas A. King
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1118044614
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (18 download)
Download or read book More Than a Numbers Game written by Thomas A. King and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2011-02-17 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The world certainly suffers no shortage of accounting texts. The many out there help readers prepare, audit, interpret and explain corporate financial statements. What has been missing is a book offering context and discussion for divisive issues such as taxes, debt, options, and earnings volatility. King addresses the why of accounting instead of the how, providing practitioners and students with a highly readable history of U.S. corporate accounting. More Than a Numbers Game: A Brief History of Accounting was inspired by Arthur Levitt's landmark 1998 speech delivered at New York University. The Securities and Exchange Commission chairman described the too-little challenged custom of earnings management and presaged the breakdown in the US corporate accounting three years later. Somehow, over a one-hundred year period, accounting morphed from a tool used by American railroad managers to communicate with absent British investors into an enabler of corporate fraud. How this happened makes for a good business story. This book is not another description of accounting scandals. Instead it offers a history of ideas. Each chapter covers a controversial topic that emerged over the past century. Historical background and discussion of people involved give relevance to concepts discussed. The author shows how economics, finance, law and business customs contributed to accounting's development. Ideas presented come from a career spent working with accounting information.
Author : Jason Apollo Voss
Publisher : SelectBooks, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1590792416
Total Pages : 415 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (97 download)
Download or read book The Intuitive Investor written by Jason Apollo Voss and published by SelectBooks, Inc.. This book was released on 2010-10 with total page 415 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Successful Wall Street fund manager retired at age 35 guides investors to use intuitive and creative right-brained processes to complement traditional left-brain financial analysis. Author describes his principles based on spiritual insights and provides professional anecdotes to support his. theories"--Provided by publisher.
Author : Nicola Moscariello
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1527543978
Total Pages : 420 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (275 download)
Download or read book Reporting Non-GAAP Financial Measures written by Nicola Moscariello and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2019-11-25 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The use of alternative performance indicators (APMs) (also known as ‘Non-GAAP’ earnings) is a widespread phenomenon, and the increased reliance on APMs has recently triggered a strong debate among regulators, managers and investors on the nature of these ‘tailored’ earnings and on the economic reasons behind them. On one hand, APMs might reflect managers’ attempt to offer useful information to predict companies’ future sustainable cash-flows and earnings (information hypothesis), while, on the other, the non-standardized nature of these metrics impacts on the comparability of the financial results, and reduces the reliability and the faithful representation of financial information (opportunistic hypothesis). By collecting several theoretical and empirical contributions on APMs, this book provides a number of interesting and useful insights on the economics of APMs and their impact on financial markets.
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ISBN 13 : 9781904574828
Total Pages : 137 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (748 download)
Download or read book Losing the Excess Baggage written by and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 137 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Brown
Publisher : Wolters Kluwer
ISBN 13 : 145488634X
Total Pages : 2350 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (548 download)
Download or read book Regulation of Corporate Disclosure, 4th Edition written by Brown and published by Wolters Kluwer. This book was released on 2016-12-15 with total page 2350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Regulation of Corporate Disclosure is a one-volume treatise on the disclosure regime in place under the Federal securities laws. The treatise addresses the formal disclosure process (periodic reports, MD&A, Regulation FD), the informal disclosure process (press releases, social media, discussions with analysts), and the application of the antifraud provisions to these communications. The treatise includes chapters on scienter and materiality, and also addresses communications with and disclosure obligations to shareholders. The Fourth Edition has been significantly revised and, among other topics, includes coverage of: The duties and responsibilities of corporate officials relating to the disclosure process The most recent cases addressing disclosure issues, including decisions by the Supreme Court on topics such as the application of the antifraud provisions to beliefs and opinions Pronouncements by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission on disclosure issues, including consideration of the SEC's efforts to improve disclosure effectiveness The developing need to consider disclosure of public interest matters, including the effects of climate change on a company's business The disclosure requirements applicable to the proxy process, including the system for uncovering the identity of street name owners State disclosure obligations of the board of directors under its fiduciary obligations to shareholders.
Author : International Accounting Standards Board
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 104 pages
Book Rating : 4.E/5 ( download)
Download or read book Fair Value Measurements written by International Accounting Standards Board and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Publisher : World Business Pub.
ISBN 13 : 9781569735688
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (356 download)
Download or read book The Greenhouse Gas Protocol written by and published by World Business Pub.. This book was released on 2004 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The GHG Protocol Corporate Accounting and Reporting Standard helps companies and other organizations to identify, calculate, and report GHG emissions. It is designed to set the standard for accurate, complete, consistent, relevant and transparent accounting and reporting of GHG emissions.
Author : United States. Securities and Exchange Commission
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1120 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (555 download)
Download or read book SEC Docket written by United States. Securities and Exchange Commission and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 1120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : International Accounting Standards Board
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 58 pages
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Download or read book IFRS 2 written by International Accounting Standards Board and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 58 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
