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The Quality of Corporate Financial Disclosure: A Comment.

Michael L. Moore¹; Stephen Buzby²

¹ Assistant Professor of Accounting, University of Texas, Austin 1 · ² Pennsylvania State university. 2

Abstract The article is a comment on the article "An Empirical Analysis of the Quality of Corporate Financial Disclosure," by researchers, Surendra S. Singhvi and Harsha B. Desai, published in the January 1971 issue of the journal "The Accounting Review." Singhvi and Desai report on a research project in which they attempted, to identify some of the characteristics of corporations in the United States which are associated with, and the possible implications of, the quality of corporate disclosure. To accomplish their purpose, an index of disclosure was constructed. According to the author, Singhvi and Desai have little to say about how they applied the index. Presumably, they constructed a list of criteria to be met by each item if it were to receive the requisite number of points. However, no mention is made of such a procedure in the article. The lack of specific criteria would tend to give greater play to the variability of human judgment in applying the index. The test, as described by Singhvi and Desai is somewhat misleading.

DOI

10.2308/tar-4503343

Volume

47 (3)

Pages

581-584

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en

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