Dissertation/ Thesis

Management earnings forecast policies and the cost of equity capital ; do motives matter?

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العنوان: Management earnings forecast policies and the cost of equity capital ; do motives matter?
المؤلفون: Hinson, Lisa Austin
بيانات النشر: uga
سنة النشر: 2016
المجموعة: University of Georgia: Athenaeum@UGA
مصطلحات موضوعية: Management forecasts, voluntary disclosure, cost of capital, incentives, motivations
الوصف: I investigate whether managerial motivations for issuing management forecasts impact the relation between forecast policies and the cost of equity capital. Extant research on the relation between voluntary disclosure and the cost of equity capital assumes that management discloses information to credibly adjust investor expectations and, thus, lower cost of capital. My study is motivated by the low likelihood that all management forecasts yield the credible information underlying the beneficial effect on cost of equity capital. Drawing from the literature on management forecast incentives, I classify management forecast motivations other than cost of capital reduction into three categories: (1) compliance with exchange rules, (2) opportunism to benefit managerial self-interests, and (3) opportunism to benefit aligned managerial/existing shareholder interests. I find that, of firms that forecast, those with policies containing higher percentages of forecasts motivated by rule compliance, managerial opportunism, and aligned managerial/existing shareholder opportunism have higher cost of equity capital. Thus, evidence suggests that underlying forecast motivations impact the management earnings forecast policy-cost of equity capital relation. ; PhD ; Business Administration ; Accounting ; Stephen Baginski ; Stephen Baginski ; Santhosh Ramalingegowda ; John Campbell ; Linda S. Bamber
نوع الوثيقة: doctoral or postdoctoral thesis
اللغة: English
Relation: hinson_lisa_a_201605_phd; http://purl.galileo.usg.edu/uga_etd/hinson_lisa_a_201605_phd; http://hdl.handle.net/10724/36168
الاتاحة: http://hdl.handle.net/10724/36168
http://purl.galileo.usg.edu/uga_etd/hinson_lisa_a_201605_phd
Rights: On Campus Only Until 2018-05-01
رقم الانضمام: edsbas.DC8F69BB
قاعدة البيانات: BASE