期刊名称:Australasian Accounting, Business and Finance Journal
印刷版ISSN:1834-2000
电子版ISSN:1834-2019
出版年度:2010
卷号:4
期号:2
页码:79-96
出版社:University of Wollongong
摘要:This paper investigates whether the narrative section of Iranian companies’ annual reports satisfies the information requirements of financial analysts employed by institutional investors. Taking a group of stakeholders (i.e. financial analysts) as the sample, a questionnaire survey was conducted to identify their top three information needs from the narrative sections of company annual reports in each of three information categories: Present, Analytical and Prospective. Following this survey, a checklist was prepared to analyse whether Iranian companies are disclosing this information required by financial analysts. Overall, the results partially support stakeholder theory as there is a general lack of information flow on the part of Iranian listed companies in meeting their stakeholders’ information needs.
关键词:Annual Reports; Narrative sections; Users’ information needs; Iranian companies