Forward-Looking MD&A Disclosures and the Information Environment

Management Science, Vol. 61, No. 5, pp. 931-948, 2015

33 Pages Posted: 30 Jan 2014 Last revised: 29 Dec 2016

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Volkan Muslu

C.T. Bauer College of Business University of Houston

Suresh Radhakrishnan

JSOM, University of Texas at Dallas

K.R. Subramanyam

University of Southern California - Leventhal School of Accounting

Dongkuk Lim

Idaho State University - Department of Accounting

Date Written: 2015

Abstract

We use computer-intensive techniques to study the informational properties of forward-looking disclosures in the MD&A sections of 10-K filings made with the SEC. We find that firms make more forward-looking MD&A disclosures when their stock prices have lower informational efficiency, i.e., when their stock prices poorly reflect future earnings information. The greater levels of forward-looking MD&A disclosures help improve but are unable to completely mitigate the lower informational efficiency of stock prices for such firms. These findings are stronger for operations-related forward-looking disclosures, disclosures that are made prior to 2000, and disclosures made by loss firms.

Keywords: Disclosure, 10-K filings, forward-looking

JEL Classification: M4

Suggested Citation

Muslu, Volkan and Radhakrishnan, Suresh and Subramanyam, K.R. and Lim, Dongkuk, Forward-Looking MD&A Disclosures and the Information Environment (2015). Management Science, Vol. 61, No. 5, pp. 931-948, 2015, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2386967

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