This study examines whether correcting disclosure of an annual report, as a proxy for disclosure quality, have effects on earnings persistence. Firm’s disclosure transfers internal information out of a firm so that it resolves information asymmetry ...
This study examines whether correcting disclosure of an annual report, as a proxy for disclosure quality, have effects on earnings persistence. Firm’s disclosure transfers internal information out of a firm so that it resolves information asymmetry issue, which can increase earnings persistence. Also, experiment how corporate governance structure affects the effects of a corrective disclosure on earnings persistence. In this study, panel analysis was conducted with data from FSS’ DART(Data Analysis, Retrieval and Transfer System) that provides for four years whether the firm’s annual report has been corrected or not. Empirical results show evidences indicating that there is a negative relation between correcting disclosure and firm’s earnings. First, correcting disclosure reduces market’s confidence in firms and so market’s monitoring becomes strict. Then it is probable that unfair disclosure would result in penalties and litigation that reduce firm’s earnings persistence. Second, analyzing a sample group that is higher than the median and a lower sample group, earnings persistence of the higher sample group is significantly higher and the lower sample group is not. This means that corporate governance structure can affects the effects of a corrective disclosure on earnings’ persistence.