Asian Tax Journal

Print ISSN 1738-3323 Online ISSN 2733-9270

The Effects of Financial Statement Comparability on Firm Visibility

  • Young Soo Choi Lindeman Asia Investment Corp.
  • Kwanghee Cho Dongguk Business School, Dongguk University
  • Dong-Hoon Yang Dongguk Business School, Dongguk University
  • Sungyoon Ahn Department of Accounting, The Catholic University of Korea

Asian Tax Journal 19권 6호 (2018), 117-141쪽

초록

We demonstrate how the financial statement comparability enhances firm visibility that the number of analyst reports reflects in the market thereby strengthening investors’ recognition and stakeholders’ awareness of a firm. As sophisticated information providers, analysts are able to analyze more intensively and efficiently comparable accounting information and issue frequently analyst reports on each high - visibility firm. This finding highlights that a particular analyst continuously generates a series of analyst reports focusing on a particular firm which yields more comparable financial information. The number of analyst reports indicates an individual analyst’s effort in the analysis of an individual firm, whereas the number of analysts represents the collective effort of analysts community. The testable implication of our results builds upon prior evidence about comparability benefits to analysts and contributes to the further understanding of analyst research.

키워드

  • Comparability
  • Firm Visibility
  • the Number of Analyst Reports
  • Analyst Coverage
  • K-IFRS

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