In this paper we examine whether and how accounting information about a firm manifests in its cost of capital, despite the forces of diversification. We build a model that is consistent with the CAPM and explicitly allows for multiple securities whose cash flows are correlated. We demonstrate that the quality of accounting information can influence the cost of capital, both directly and indirectly. The direct effect occurs because higher quality disclosures reduce the firm’s assessed covariances with other firms’ cash flows, which is non-diversifiable. The indirect effect occurs because higher quality disclosures affect a firm’s real decisions, which likely changes the firm’s ratio of the expected future cash flows to the covariance of these cash flows with the sum of all the cash flows in the market. We show that this effect can go in either direction, but also derive conditions under which an increase in information quality leads to an unambiguous decline the cost of capital.
The link between accounting information and the cost of capital of firms is one of the most fundamental issues in accounting. Standard setters frequently refer to it. For example, Arthur Levitt, the former chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission, suggests that “high quality accounting standards reduce capital costs.” Similarly, Neel Foster, a former member of the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) claims that “More information always equates to less uncertainty, and people pay more for certainty. In the context of financial information, the end result is that better disclosure results in a lower cost of capital.” While these claims have intuitive appeal, there is surprisingly little theoretical work on the hypothesized link.
In particular, it is unclear to what extent accounting information or firm disclosures reduce non-diversifiable risks in economies with multiple securities. Asset pricing models, such as the Capital Asset Pricing Model (CAPM), and portfolio theory emphasize the importance of distinguishing between risks that are diversifiable and those that are not. Thus, the challenge for accounting researchers is to demonstrate whether and how firms’ accounting information manifests in their cost of capital, despite the forces of diversification.
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特别是,它是不明的帐户信息或牢固的透露在何种程度上减少在经济的非diversifiable风险与多证券。 财产定价塑造,例如资本价格模型(CAPM),并且股份单理论强调区别的重要性在diversifiable不是的风险和那些之间。 因此,会计研究员的挑战是否是展示和firms’帐户信息怎么在他们的集资费用体现,尽管多样化力量 ...
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这意味着,信息可以被用户证实和依赖。 并且会计信息应该切实可行,意味着提供信息的成本应该不超过收益。..并且,它还应该以一个被通知用户可理解的形式呈现。
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