In this paper, Tiago Duarte-Silva and his co-authors show that delays in earnings announcements are associated with decreases in firm value, which are especially sizeable when they are precipitated by accounting reasons or when no reason for the delay is announced. This decrease in firm value is also shown to be proportional to the decline in future earnings. In the paper they discuss implications both for shareholders and corporate decision makers faced with an earnings delay.
Semiannual reporting threatens enforcement of insider trading
CRA’s Swati Kanoria has co-authored a new article with Douglas Miller and Val Bianchi-Demicheli of Boies Schiller Flexner LLP, in which they assess how the...