Determinants and Consequences of Earnings Disclosure Readability

This research examines whether changes in the regulatory environment (Plain English Guidelines, Reg. FD and SOX), management pessimism, and meeting/beating or missing analyst forecasts have had an impact on earnings disclosure readability over the 1997-2007 timeframe and whether firm managers are ab...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Meckfessel, Michele Dawn
Other Authors: Accounting and Information Systems
Format: Others
Published: Virginia Tech 2014
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10919/37364
http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-02142012-200557/