This study investigates the interplay between integrated reporting (IR) and capital markets. In particular, building on voluntary disclosure and information processing theories, we hypothesize and empirically find that IR adoption improves analysts' ability to make accurate earnings forecasts. Whereas previous studies focus on the South African context, we rely on an international sample that also allows us to study the moderating effect of the corporate governance regime (shareholder or stakeholder oriented). The results suggest that IR improves analysts' ability to make accurate predictions to a larger extent in North America than in Europe, and we derive interesting insights on the much‐debated nature of IR. This study offers valuable insights to policy makers interested in improving disclosure practices in the financial market.

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Resumo Este trabalho analisa a influência da participação feminina sobre o desempenho e risco financeiro das empresas, considerando uma amostra composta por 218 empresas, listadas e negociadas na B3 (Bovespa), nos períodos de 2010 a 2016. O estudo analisa também a influência da participação feminina em empresas de controle familiar. Utilizando painel com efeitos aleatórios e as variáveis dummy de controle familiar e percentual de presença feminina no conselho de administração, o estudo procurou analisar como essas variáveis e suas interações podem afetar o desempenho financeiro das empresas. Embora a representatividade feminina tenha crescido mais de 50% nos últimos anos, tal participação, no entanto, no conselho de administração das empresas brasileiras ainda é minoritária, próxima de 9% do total pesquisado. A estrutura de propriedade em mãos familiares é bastante relevante, com a percentagem de 63%. Os resultados sugerem uma relação positiva da participação feminina e a variável Q de Tobin, utilizada como proxy para geração de valor, porém essa relação é mais fraca nas empresas familiares. Outro resultado encontrado é que a volatilidade, aqui tomada como proxy de risco, é reduzida em empresas de controle familiar.

The aim of this paper is to analyze earnings management (EM) surrounding debenture issues of companies listed on the BM&FBOVESPA. EM is an intentional intervention in external financial reports in order to obtain some private gain. This practice is especially important at the time of issuing debentures because if earnings are inflated, investors may pay an artificially high price. To measure earnings management, current discretionary accruals were used as a proxy, based on the Modified Jones and Modified Jones with ROA econometric models. All of the regressions considered the fixed effects of the companies and the time series effects of the analyses. Evidence was found that companies inflate their financial results in the issuing period in order to positively influence their investors. The results suggest that there is EM in the quarter preceding the issue (t = -1), indicating the influence that investors may have been under when making the decision to invest in debentures from these companies. In addition, it was verified that companies with higher debt, profitability, and sales growth ratios have higher levels of earnings management. The reputation of the auditor was not statistically significant regarding reductions in the level of management. The results also show that companies listed on Level II and New Market had higher levels of management when considering the Modified Jones with ROA model. Therefore, it can be concluded that there is a greater level of earnings management in companies that issue debentures in the period preceding the event. Finally, the variable that is directly related to the level of earnings management is sales growth.

We investigate earnings management (EM) in IPOs and the role of private equity/venture capital (PEVC) in hampering such practice. We show that when analyzing EM, PEVC and non-PEVC-sponsored firms should be treated as different samples: if one splits the sample, Rsquared increases drastically for both subsamples. For PEVC-sponsored IPOs EM is marginal, mostly related to firms' characteristics and little related to the phases of the IPOs. Differently, for non-PEVC-sponsored IPOs EM is significant, mostly related to the phases of the IPO and little related to firms' characteristics. Finally, the reputation of the auditor is important only for PEVC-sponsored IPOs, suggesting that the choice of auditor is more meaningful for PEVC-sponsored firm, i.e, the choice of reputed auditor represents a compromise not to manage earnings.