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1 – 10 of 36Padmini Srinivasan and M.S. Narasimhan
India is one of the few countries where companies are required to give both consolidated financial statements (CFS) as well as parent‐only financial statements. While parent‐only…
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Purpose
India is one of the few countries where companies are required to give both consolidated financial statements (CFS) as well as parent‐only financial statements. While parent‐only statements have been in existence for a long time, CFS was introduced recently. The purpose of this paper is to examine the value relevance of CFS in India.
Design/methodology/approach
The value relevance of CFS is examined through an empirical study. The study examines the relationship between market values and consolidated earnings and parent‐only earnings is analysed. The study uses four years data of 59 companies whose subsidiary earnings are more than 20 per cent of consolidated revenue.
Findings
Initial results show that annual CFS are not value relevant, whereas annual parent‐only financial statements are value relevant. However, wherever quarterly financial statements are available, CFC are found to be value relevant and parent‐only financial statements are not value relevant.
Practical implications
While CFS and parent‐only financial statement on an annual basis are mandatory, companies have the option to publish parent‐only financial statement on a quarterly basis while not reporting quarterly consolidated financial statements. This inconsistency in the regulation causes confusion to investors who receive parent‐only quarterly financial statements for three quarters and suddenly consolidated financial statements at the end of the year. The paper shows how market reacts to such reporting practices.
Originality/value
In addition to examining the value relevance of CFS, the paper also examines the impact of incomplete regulations of financial reporting on asset pricing.
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This study aims to investigate how holding public subsidiaries affects the information environment of consolidated entities in Germany.
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Purpose
This study aims to investigate how holding public subsidiaries affects the information environment of consolidated entities in Germany.
Design/methodology/approach
The sample consists of German consolidated entities that are traded on major German stock exchanges over the fiscal years 2005-2012 and hold subsidiaries with public common equity. The informativeness of earnings, defined as the association between earnings and returns, is used to investigate how holding public subsidiaries affects the information environment of consolidated entities.
Findings
Findings suggest that public subsidiary earnings are incrementally informative about consolidated entity returns beyond both consolidated and segment earnings reported by consolidated entities in Germany. An investigation into the factors that affect the incremental informativeness of public subsidiary earnings reveals that public subsidiary earnings are more incrementally informative when, compared to the consolidated entity, they are relatively large, have dissimilar growth prospects and are from the same country (i.e. Germany).
Practical implications
These findings suggest that this disclosure is useful to investors and that this type of disclosure could be valuable to adopt in other countries that do not have this disclosure requirement.
Originality/value
These findings contribute to the streams of literature that: investigate ways that regulators can improve the information environment of corporations, compare the informativeness of accounting measures and investigate the informativeness of subsidiary information.
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The purpose of this paper is to examine whether Egyptian listed firms engage in earnings management to meet or beat earnings thresholds, particularly, earnings level (avoiding…
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Purpose
The purpose of this paper is to examine whether Egyptian listed firms engage in earnings management to meet or beat earnings thresholds, particularly, earnings level (avoiding losses) threshold and earnings change (avoiding earnings decreases) threshold.
Design/methodology/approach
The paper uses the distribution of reported earnings approach, similar to Burgstahler and Dichev, to examine discontinuities around earnings thresholds as evidence on earnings management to meet or beat earnings thresholds.
Findings
The research findings reveal that there is a discontinuity in the distribution of reported earnings and earnings changes of Egyptian listed firms surrounding zero. There are too few observations immediately below zero and too many observations immediately above zero. These results suggest that Egyptian listed firms tend to engage in earnings management to avoid reporting losses and avoid reporting earnings decreases.
Research limitations/implications
The paper's main limitation is the relatively small sample size given the thinness of the Egyptian capital market, therefore, the findings should be interpreted with caution.
Originality/value
The paper contributes to the literature by examining earnings management to meet or beat earnings thresholds in Egypt as one of the emerging markets.
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An issue related to the strategic choice of organizational form for affiliated businesses is how the financial information of the affiliate will be reported. A question arises as…
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An issue related to the strategic choice of organizational form for affiliated businesses is how the financial information of the affiliate will be reported. A question arises as to whether alternative methods of reporting influence user decisions. The purpose of this study was to investigate whether alternative consolidation accounting methods affected the financial decisions of users in selected countries. An experiment was conducted with student subjects in Australia, Canada and the U.S. Alternative consolidation techniques and country were the independent variables. Results indicated user responses were affected by the consolidation method. Country effects were also noted.
Most intergenerational mobility studies use data on two generations to estimate the elasticity between son's and father's earnings. The purpose of this paper is to use a data set…
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Purpose
Most intergenerational mobility studies use data on two generations to estimate the elasticity between son's and father's earnings. The purpose of this paper is to use a data set spanning three generations to estimate additional relationships between a person's earnings and family background yielded by intergenerational mobility models such as Becker-Tomes (1979) model and modified versions of it.
Design/methodology/approach
The paper uses data from the 1996 PNAD – a nationally representative household survey in Brazil. The author builds a data set consisting of 5,125 grandfather-father-son triplets by taking advantage of two characteristics of Brazil. First, commonly in Brazil, individuals live with their parents until they marry. Second, individuals tended to quit school and begin working at an early age. As a result, there are many households with adult sons who are not at the very beginning of their working careers. Since the sample is limited to households with adult sons, the author applies Heckman (1979) estimation procedure to address selection bias.
Findings
Estimation results contradict some predictions of simple versions of the Becker and Tomes model. The paper proposes a modified version of the Becker and Tomes model that allows for a skipping generation effect, and finds that family background explains 34.9 percent of the variation in earnings among males aged 16-27 in Brazil. If there were no differences in endowments (talent, IQ, health, physical appearance, attitudes toward work, family connections, etc.), the variation in earnings would fall by no less than 26 percent. If it were possible to eliminate differences in investment in human capital, the variation in earnings would fall by at most 21.1 percent.
Research limitations/implications
The paper has two main data limitations. First, the 1996 earnings of the fathers and sons are used as proxies for lifetime earnings although the transitory component of one-year earnings may be quite large, particularly at young ages. Second, in spite of the efforts to deal with the sample selection bias, the paper shows that the intergenerational elasticity in earnings for the sons aged 22-27 is about 14.6 percent lower for the subsample of households with adult sons than for the full sample.
Practical implications
The paper finds evidence supporting the existence of a direct effect of the grandparents on the grandchildren beyond their influence on the parents, and reinforces consideration of this factor in intergenerational mobility studies.
Social implications
The findings in this paper may suggest a room for improvements in economic outcomes of children in less privileged families through investment in formal education as well as policies that considers other aspects of a person's life. For instance, Bolsa Família – a Brazilian government program that provide cash allowances to poor families conditional on children school attendance – may improve the economic outcomes of poor children by enforcing formal education and by lessening the children hardships at home.
Originality/value
The paper proposes a modified version of the Becker and Tomes model which allows for a skipping generation effect. Under the assumptions of the modified model and in hand with a three-generations data set from Brazil, the paper estimates a lowerbound for the variation in earnings explained by differences in endowments across families, and an upperbound for the variation in earnings explained by differences in human capital.
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Hajam Abid Bashir, Manish Bansal and Dilip Kumar
This study aims to examine the value relevance of earnings in terms of predicting the value variables such as cash flow, capital investment (CI), dividend and stock return under…
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Purpose
This study aims to examine the value relevance of earnings in terms of predicting the value variables such as cash flow, capital investment (CI), dividend and stock return under the Indian institutional settings.
Design/methodology/approach
The study used panel Granger causality tests to examine causality relationships among variables and panel data regression models to check the statistical associations between earnings and value variables.
Findings
Based on a data set of 7,280 Bombay Stock Exchange-listed firm-years spanning over ten years from March 2009 to March 2018, the results show higher sensitivity of earnings toward cash flows, CI, divided and stock return and vice-versa. Further, the findings deduced from the empirical results demonstrate that earnings are positively related to value variables. Overall, the results established that earnings are value-relevant and have predictive ability to forecast the value variables that facilitate investors in portfolio valuation. The results are consistent with the predictive view of the value relevance of earnings. Several robustness checks confirm these results.
Originality/value
This study brings new empirical evidence from a distinct capital market, India, and provides a new facet to the value relevance debate in terms of its prediction view. The study is among earlier attempts that jointly measure the ability of earnings in forecasting different value variables by taking a uniform sample of firms at the same period. Hence, the study provides a comprehensive view of the predictive ability of reported earnings.
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Can an estimate of the intergenerational elasticity (IGE) be interpreted as a measure of inequality of opportunity (IOp)? If parental income is the only childhood circumstance…
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Can an estimate of the intergenerational elasticity (IGE) be interpreted as a measure of inequality of opportunity (IOp)? If parental income is the only childhood circumstance, then the answer is yes. However, parental income is one of many potential circumstances that can shape IOp. These circumstances can influence the offspring’s income indirectly – by influencing parental income – or directly, bypassing the IGE altogether. I develop a model to decompose the interaction between childhood circumstances, parental income and offspring income. Using the Panel Study of Income Dynamics for the United States, I find that childhood circumstances account for 55% of the IGE for individual earnings and 53% for family income, with parental education explaining over a third of those shares. Furthermore, the IGE misses a large part of the influence of circumstances: only 45% of the influence of parental education on the offspring’s income goes through parental income (36% for earnings).
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Brian Duncan and Stephen J. Trejo
Using microdata from the 2000 US Census, we analyze the responses of Mexican Americans to questions that independently elicit their “ethnicity” (or Hispanic origin) and their…
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Using microdata from the 2000 US Census, we analyze the responses of Mexican Americans to questions that independently elicit their “ethnicity” (or Hispanic origin) and their “ancestry.” We investigate whether different patterns of responses to these questions reflect varying degrees of ethnic attachment. For example, those identified as “Mexican” in both the Hispanic origin and the ancestry questions might have stronger ethnic ties than those identified as Mexican only in the ancestry question. How US-born Mexicans report their ethnicity/ancestry is strongly associated with measures of human capital and labor market performance. In particular, educational attainment, English proficiency, and earnings are especially high for men and women who claim a Mexican ancestry but report their ethnicity as “not Hispanic.” Further, intermarriage and the Mexican identification of children are also strongly related to how US-born Mexican adults report their ethnicity/ancestry, revealing a possible link between the intergenerational transmission of Mexican identification and economic status.
Mariska van der Horst, Tanja van der Lippe and Esther Kluwer
– The purpose of this paper is to investigate how work and family aspirations relate to occupational achievements and gender differences herein.
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Purpose
The purpose of this paper is to investigate how work and family aspirations relate to occupational achievements and gender differences herein.
Design/methodology/approach
Using data from 2009 the authors examined the relationship between career and childrearing aspirations and occupational achievements of Dutch parents. Using path modeling in Mplus, the authors investigated both direct and indirect pathways where aspirations were related to occupational achievements via time allocations.
Findings
The authors found that ranking being promoted instead of a non-career aspiration as the most important job aspiration was positively related to occupational achievements. Surprisingly, the authors also found that ranking childrearing as the most important life role aspiration was positively related to earnings among fathers.
Research limitations/implications
Investigating aspirations in multiple domains simultaneously can provide new information on working parents’ occupational achievements.
Practical implications
The results imply that parents who want to achieve an authority position or high earnings may need to prioritize their promotion aspiration among their job aspirations in order to increase the likelihood of achieving such a position. Moreover, this is likely to require sacrifices outside the work domain, since spending more time on paid work is an important way to achieve this aspiration.
Originality/value
This paper adds to previous research by explicitly taking life role aspirations into account instead of focussing solely on job aspirations. Moreover, this study extends previous research by investigating indirect pathways from aspirations to occupational achievements via family work in addition to the previously found pathway via paid work.
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Mark Dickie and Matthew J. Salois
The chapter investigates: (1) Do married parents efficiently allocate time to children’s health care? (2) Are parents willing to sacrifice consumption for health improvements at…
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Purpose
The chapter investigates: (1) Do married parents efficiently allocate time to children’s health care? (2) Are parents willing to sacrifice consumption for health improvements at an equal rate for all family members? (3) How does family structure affect health trade-offs parents make? (4) Are parental choices consistent with maximization of a single utility function?
Methodology
A model is specified focusing on how parents allocate resources between consumption and goods that relieve acute illnesses for family members. Equivalent surplus functions measuring parental willingness to pay to relieve acute illnesses are estimated using data from a stated-preference survey.
Findings
Results provide limited support for the prediction that married parents allocate time to child health care according to comparative advantage. Valuations of avoided illness vary between family members and are inconsistent with the hypothesis that fathers’ and mothers’ choices reflect a common utility function.
Research implications
Prior research on children’s health valuation has relied on a unitary framework that is rejected here. Valuation researchers have focused on allocation of resources between parents and children while ignoring allocation of resources among children, whereas results suggest significant heterogeneity in valuation of health of different types of children and of children in different types of households.
Social implications
Results may provide a justification on efficiency grounds for policies to provide special protection for children’s health and suggest that benefit–cost analyses of policies affecting health should include separate estimates of the benefits of health improvements for children and adults.
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