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Financial statement informativeness and intellectual capital disclosure: An empirical analysis
Ist Teil von
Journal of financial reporting & accounting, 2015-01, Vol.13 (1), p.66-90
Erscheinungsjahr
2015
Quelle
Alma/SFX Local Collection
Beschreibungen/Notizen
Purpose
– The purpose of this paper is to analyse the relationship between financial statement informativeness (FSI) and intellectual capital disclosure (ICD).
Design/methodology/approach
– While FSI was measured as the explanatory power of financial information in explaining market value, ICD was collected through content analysis of annual reports. A sample of 126 US companies, divided into two groups – high-tech and low-tech companies – were used in this study. Empirical analysis was carried out using the Poisson regression method.
Findings
– The results show a negative (substitutive) relationship between FSI and ICD, especially in high-tech companies. This indicates that companies with low FSI disclose more information about their IC in annual reports.
Practical implications
– This study confirms the role of voluntary ICD as a solution towards mitigating the problem of the distortion of financial information due to the lack of accounting recognition of IC as an asset in the financial statements.
Originality/value
– This is the first empirical study to analyse the relationship between FSI and ICD. Therefore, it serves as feedback to the regulators and standard-setters that recently published recommendations on voluntarily disclosing IC.