Cost uniqueness and information uncertainty

IF 3.2 3区 管理学 Q1 BUSINESS, FINANCE
Mark Anderson, Raj Mashruwala, Ye Wang, Rong Zhao
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Abstract

Prior literature has studied firm uniqueness and its implications for capital market participants by investigating earnings uniqueness. We recognize that cost and revenue uniqueness provide separate insights about firm uniqueness because different forces drive firm-specific revenues and costs. Cost uniqueness is of special interest because costs are opaque to investors and more complex than revenues. Therefore, we examine how cost uniqueness affects information uncertainty from the perspective of external participants. We find that idiosyncratic stock return volatility increases with cost uniqueness independently and incrementally from revenue uniqueness. We validate these results with several cross-sectional tests that provide insights into the forces that drive the association between information uncertainty and cost uniqueness. In addition, we find that higher cost uniqueness is associated with finer cost disclosure. Overall, we show that cost uniqueness is an important dimension of cost behavior that is linked to strategic decision-making and affects uncertainty surrounding firm valuation.

成本唯一性与信息不确定性
先前的文献通过调查盈余唯一性来研究企业唯一性及其对资本市场参与者的影响。我们认识到,成本和收入的独特性提供了关于企业独特性的不同见解,因为不同的力量驱动着企业特定的收入和成本。成本独特性之所以特别引人关注,是因为成本对投资者来说是不透明的,而且比收入更复杂。因此,我们从外部参与者的角度考察成本唯一性对信息不确定性的影响。我们发现,股票收益的波动性随成本唯一性而独立递增,且随收益唯一性而递增。我们通过几个横截面测试验证了这些结果,这些测试提供了对驱动信息不确定性和成本唯一性之间关联的力量的见解。此外,我们发现成本独特性越高,成本披露越精细。总体而言,我们表明成本独特性是成本行为的一个重要维度,它与战略决策有关,并影响企业估值的不确定性。
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CiteScore
6.20
自引率
11.10%
发文量
97
期刊介绍: Contemporary Accounting Research (CAR) is the premiere research journal of the Canadian Academic Accounting Association, which publishes leading- edge research that contributes to our understanding of all aspects of accounting"s role within organizations, markets or society. Canadian based, increasingly global in scope, CAR seeks to reflect the geographical and intellectual diversity in accounting research. To accomplish this, CAR will continue to publish in its traditional areas of excellence, while seeking to more fully represent other research streams in its pages, so as to continue and expand its tradition of excellence.
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