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ARTICLE IN PRESSJournal of Accounting and Economics 43 (2007) 181–2170165-4101/$ -
doi:10.1016/j
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Jerry Salomo
Stephen Zeff
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Alisa Marcus
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E-mail /locate/jaeThe effect of reporting frequency on the timeliness of
earnings: The cases of voluntary and mandatory
interim reports$
Marty Butlera,, Arthur Kraftb, Ira S. Weissc,d
aGoizueta Business School, Emory University, Atlanta, GA 30322, USA
bLondon Business School, Regent’s Park, London NW1 4SA, UK
cColumbia Business School, Columbia University, New York, NY 10027, USA
dGraduate School of Business, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL 60637, USA
Received 13 March 2002; received in revised form 7 August 2006; accepted 20 October 2006
Available online 14 February 2007Abstract
We examine whether financial reporting frequency affects the speed with which accounting
information is reflected in security prices. For a sample of 28,824 reporting-frequency observations
from 1950 to 1973, we find little evidence of differences in timeliness between firms reporting
quarterly and those reporting semiannually, even after controlling for self-selection. However, firms
that voluntarily increased reporting frequency from semiannual to quarterly experienced increasedsee front matter r 2007 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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