The Effect of Risk Disclosure on the Share Price Anticipation based on Earnings and Firm Value

Abstract

The purpose of this study is to investigate the effect of risk disclosure in financial reporting. The statistical society includes companies accepted in Tehran Stock Exchange (TSE), and the time span of the study is from the beginning of 2010 up to the end of 2013. To calculate some variables, the data of years 2009 and 2014 have also been used. In this research, it was predicted that increasing the level of risk disclosure could reduce the problems of information asymmetry and agency conflicts for investors. Based on what was anticipated, it was assumed that there is a relationship between risk disclosure and stock prediction capability by earnings changes. It was also anticipated that there was a relationship between risk disclosure and the firm value. The results indicate that there is no significant relationship between the level of risk disclosure of firms and the information content of earnings changes. Also there was no significant relationship between disclosure risk and firm value. Disclosed information irrelevance and inability and lack of knowledge in the interpretation of the information disclosed to investors about risk items, could be the main reasons for this conclusion.

Keywords

• Risk Disclosure
• Share Price
• Earnings
• Stock Return
• firm value