Financial Statement Comparability and the Informativeness of Stock Prices About Future Earnings

Choi, Jong-Hag and Choi, Sun Hwa and Myers, Linda A. and Ziebart, David (2019) Financial Statement Comparability and the Informativeness of Stock Prices About Future Earnings. Contemporary Accounting Research, 36 (1). pp. 389-417. ISSN 0823-9150

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Abstract

We find that financial statement comparability enhances the ability of current period returns to reflect future earnings, as measured by the future earnings response coefficient (FERC). This suggests that comparability improves the informativeness of stock prices and allows investors to better anticipate future firm performance. In addition, using both the FERC and stock price synchronicity tests, we find that comparability increases the amount of firm‐specific information (rather than market/industry‐level information) reflected in stock prices. Analysts play an important role in improving stock price informativeness by producing more firm‐specific information when comparability is high. These findings suggest that comparability lowers the costs of gathering and processing firm‐specific information.

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Journal Article
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Contemporary Accounting Research
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This is the peer reviewed version of the following article: Choi, J. , Choi, S. , Myers, L. A. and Ziebart, D. (2019), Financial Statement Comparability and the Informativeness of Stock Prices About Future Earnings. Contemp Account Res, 36: 389-417. doi: 10.1111/1911-3846.12442 which has been published in final form at https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/1911-3846.12442 This article may be used for non-commercial purposes in accordance With Wiley Terms and Conditions for self-archiving.
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Subjects:
?? comparabilityfuture earnings response coefficient (ferc) firm‐specific informationstock price synchronicityfinanceeconomics and econometricsaccounting ??
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90077
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Deposited On:
07 Feb 2018 14:50
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Published
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