Annual report readability and corporate agency costs

Annual reports are the main sources of information for outside investors’ investment decisions and enable shareholders to supervise the management. Difficulties with the readability of these reports may therefore have serious consequences. Using 19,221 firm-year observations of Chinese A-share liste...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Jin-hui Luo, Xue Li, Huayang Chen
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2018-09-01
Series:China Journal of Accounting Research
Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1755309118300753