Applied Research in Financial Reporting

Applied Research in Financial Reporting

Intra-Industry Connectedness, Earnings Response Coefficient, Earnings Forecasts Quantity and Cost of Capital.

Document Type : Original Article

Authors
Department of Accounting, Faculty of Management and Economics, Shahid Bahonar University of Kerman, Kerman, Iran.
Abstract
Prior researches on intra-industry information transfer show that industry peers’ reports provide informative information about individual firms and documented significant stock price responses to industry peers’ announcement of financial information. It seems that this phenomenon and comparative management performance evaluations in industries with highly related environments leads to changes in management behavior and information environment attributes in this industries. In this study, we examined the relationship of intra-industry connectedness with firm’s earnings response coefficient, earnings forecasts quantity and cost of capital. Our results show significant negative relation between intra-industry connectedness and earnings response coefficient and cost of capital and a positive relation between intra-industry connectedness and management earnings forecasts quantity.
 
 
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  • Receive Date 07 November 2017
  • Revise Date 09 June 2018
  • Accept Date 18 March 2018