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Do Better‐Governed Australian Firms Make More Informative Disclosures?
Author(s) -
Beekes Wendy,
Brown Philip
Publication year - 2006
Publication title -
journal of business finance and accounting
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.282
H-Index - 77
eISSN - 1468-5957
pISSN - 0306-686X
DOI - 10.1111/j.1468-5957.2006.00614.x
Subject(s) - corporate governance , quality (philosophy) , business , metric (unit) , accounting , share price , marketing , finance , philosophy , epistemology , stock exchange
We investigate whether and if so, how, corporate governance ‘quality’ 1 is related to the information flows from a company and how the share market and its agents respond. Specifically, we study links between the ‘quality’ of a firm's corporate governance (CGQ) and the informativeness of its disclosures. We employ six indicators of informativeness. They include document counts, properties of analysts’ forecasts and a ‘timeliness’ metric, in the spirit of Ball and Brown (1968), that reflects the average speed of price discovery throughout the year. Our results suggest the answer to our question is ‘Yes’: better‐governed firms do make more informative disclosures.