SMOOTHING OF RESULTS AND ENVIRONMENTAL DISCLOSURE: AN INVESTIGATION IN STEEL SECTOR AND BRAZILIAN METALS
Abstract
The present study aims to investigate the association between the practice of income smoothing and practice of disclosure of environmental information by companies in the steel and metals in Brazil. The sample was selected from the population of companies listed on the BM & FBOVESPA, consisting of 22 companies. The activities of the companies selected are of high environmental impact pursuant to Law 10165/2000. Environmental information was collected Management Reports [MR's] and Notes [N's] in the database of the BM& FBOVESPA. The financial information was gathered in the Financial Statements [FS's] in the database Economática ®, were identified in N’s MR's 542 sentences, classified as "good news" [n = 351], "neutral news" [n = 169] and "bad news" [n = 22]. The model Eckel (1981) - Index Eckel [IE] - was used to identify companies with evidence and without evidence of income smoothing. To analyze the association between IE and News [Good, Bad and Neutral] we calculated the Spearman correlation coefficient. The result of the low correlation evidence with evidence of smoothing companies only disclosed classified information with the attribute "neutral news."
Keywords: Management, straightening result, Environmental Disclosure.
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