Voluntary disclosure of cash flow statements and segment data in Germany
- Discretionary disclosure theory suggests that firms' incentives to provide proprietary versus nonproprietary information differ markedly. To test this conjecture, the paper investigates the incentives of German firms to voluntarily disclose business segment reports and cash flow statements in their annual financial reports. While the former is likely to reveal proprietary information to competitors, the latter is less proprietary in nature. Using these proxies for proprietary and non-proprietary disclosures, respectively, I find that the determinants or at least their relative magnitudes differ in a way consistent with the proprietary cost hypothesis. That is, cash flow statement disclosures appear to be governed primarily by capital-market considerations, whereas segment disclosures are more strongly associated with proxies for product-market and proprietary-cost considerations.
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| Verfasserangaben: | Christian LeuzORCiDGND |
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| URN: | urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-553471 |
| URL: | https://www.econbiz.de/archiv/f/uf/finanzierung/segment_data.pdf |
| ISSN: | 1434-3401 |
| Titel des übergeordneten Werkes (Deutsch): | Universität Frankfurt am Main. Fachbereich Wirtschaftswissenschaften: [Working paper series / Finance and accounting] Working paper series, Finance & Accounting ; No. 21 |
| Schriftenreihe (Bandnummer): | Working paper series / Johann-Wolfgang-Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main, Fachbereich Wirtschaftswissenschaften : Finance & Accounting (21) |
| Verlagsort: | Frankfurt am Main |
| Dokumentart: | Arbeitspapier |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
| Jahr der Fertigstellung: | 1999 |
| Jahr der Erstveröffentlichung: | 1999 |
| Veröffentlichende Institution: | Universitätsbibliothek Johann Christian Senckenberg |
| Datum der Freischaltung: | 30.08.2020 |
| Freies Schlagwort / Tag: | business segment reports; cash flow statements; proprietary costs; voluntary disclosure |
| Ausgabe / Heft: | 7. March 1999 |
| Seitenzahl: | 49 |
| HeBIS-PPN: | 470252502 |
| Institute: | Wirtschaftswissenschaften / Wirtschaftswissenschaften |
| DDC-Klassifikation: | 3 Sozialwissenschaften / 33 Wirtschaft / 330 Wirtschaft |
| Lizenz (Deutsch): |  Deutsches Urheberrecht |
