“…Through literature, the importance of corporate narratives readability can be reasoned to making an effective communication of value-relevant information (Fisher et al, 2019;Loughran and McDonald, 2014), where it can enhance the quality of information provided by firms and thus, helping users in their decision making and affecting their reactions in the market (Cui, 2016;Hsieh et al, 2016;Lawrence, 2013;Miller, 2010;Rennekamp, 2012;Tan et al, 2014Tan et al, , 2015Twedt and Rees, 2012;You and Zhang, 2009). In addition, readability of different disclosures can increase informational efficiency Influence of narrative disclosure readability (Hesarzadeh and Rajabalizadeh, 2019), affect analysts' followings (Aymen et al, 2018;Lehavy et al, 2011), affect firms' cost of capital (Ertugrul et al, 2017), provide incremental information about audit engagement risk (Abernathy et al, 2019) and affect the audit fees as well (Abernathy et al, 2019;Xu et al, 2019). Many prior studies examine corporate narratives' readability from the users' side.…”