This study examines the association between the voluntary disclosure of economic and financial information and earnings management. The outlined arguments on the subject are based on the assumption that consistent voluntary disclosure policies may reduce earnings management. The analysis is conducted on a random sample of 66 non-financial Brazilian listed companies in the 2005-2012 period. To measure voluntary disclosure, the index proposed by Consoni and Colauto (2016) is used. As a proxy for earnings management, discretionary accruals (DA) are estimated based on the model by Dechow, Sloan, and Sweeney (1995). The relationship between these measurements is analyzed using a model of simultaneous equations and by the random effects regression method with panel data. A significant negative relationship was expected a priori; however, the main result of the study indicates that voluntary disclosure and earnings management are not simultaneously determined or associated. Although the results obtained contradict certain theoretical assumptions, there are alternative explanations for this finding. The empirical set of evidence in this research, in addition to those in previous studies, should be interpreted with caution because there is no consensus on the measures for voluntary disclosure and earnings management. Second, several companies in Brazil may not be interested in providing high-quality voluntary disclosure because most of their shareholders enjoy private benefits of control. This issue reduces the importance of the potential market demand for information, stratifies information asymmetry, and does not prevent earnings management.
Purpose -The purpose of this paper is to verify the influence of the convergence process to International Financial Reporting Standards on the voluntary disclosure of listed Brazilian companies.Design/methodology/approach -A voluntary disclosure metric was designed and collected from a random sample of 66 companies registered as active in BM&FBovespa during the 2005-2012 period. For the hypothesis test it was used panel data regressions with random effects.Findings -The convergence process to International Financial Reporting Standards is presented as an exogenous factor that affected positively and significantly voluntary disclosure in the analyzed period. It leads to the complementary rationale between mandatory disclosure and the voluntary disclosure.Originality/value -The study presents a new metric for measuring the voluntary disclosure level, with the potential to understand the nature of the relationship between this and the mandatory disclosure. In the Brazilian capital market context, governed by the stakeholder model, convergence to International Financial Reporting Standards induced an increase on voluntary disclosure quality.
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O estudo investiga a influência da estrutura de formação do board interlocks na divulgação voluntária de empresas de capital aberto no Brasil. Utiliza-se a abordagem de análise de redes sociais para captar e avaliar o nível de relacionamento existente entre empresas em função dos laços formados por membros do conselho de administração. Duas hipóteses exploram as medidas de (i) centralidade de grau (degree centrality) e de (ii) centralidade de intermediação (betweenness centrality), as quais têm potencial de descrever o posicionamento dos atores em uma rede. A terceira hipótese endereça a questão da qualidade dos laços (holes). Os resultados sugerem que a estrutura de formação do board interlocks aumenta a propensão de as empresas reportarem informações de natureza voluntária em seus relatórios anuais. Interpreta-se, por isso, que o board interlocks atua como um fator que favorece a disseminação de práticas de divulgação voluntária.
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