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Consequences of Financial Reporting Requirements on Managerial Decisions: The Case of U.S. Multinational Corporations and Foreign Currency Translation

J. David Spiceland (Professor at The University of Memphis)
Jerry E. Trapnell (Professor of Accounting and Dean of the College of Business at Clemson University)
Michael L. Behrens (Ph.D. Candidate at The University of Memphis)
Abdel Kablan (Professor at the University of Bengazi)

Managerial Finance

ISSN: 0307-4358

Article publication date: 1 September 1995

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Abstract

This article reports the results of tests used to detect shifts in the systematic risk of multinational corporations concurrent with regulations mandating new financial reporting requirements for foreign currency translations. Results indicate significant beta shifts, suggesting that management undertook specific suboptimal actions to counteract the effects of the regulations and that those actions were responded to by the marketplace in the form of a reassessment of systematic risk. It is further indicated that the market reaction varies according to both the location and magnitude of firms' foreign investments.

Citation

Spiceland, J.D., Trapnell, J.E., Behrens, M.L. and Kablan, A. (1995), "Consequences of Financial Reporting Requirements on Managerial Decisions: The Case of U.S. Multinational Corporations and Foreign Currency Translation", Managerial Finance, Vol. 21 No. 9, pp. 78-93. https://doi.org/10.1108/eb018534

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MCB UP Ltd

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