The reaction of the financial market on the auditor report: an empirical study on service companies listed in Amman Stock Exchange (ASE)

The study investigated Corporate Social Environmental Reporting and its association with stock prices (using market price per share as at the financial year end) among listed firms in Nigeria. The study used a cross-sectional research design comprising 50 publicly listed companies across various sectors for the period of five years (2011–2015). For the selected firms, the annual report was used to collect the data. This research utilizes the panel data regression in analyzing the influence of the independent variable (measured by corporate social and environmental expenditure) on the dependent variable measured using the market price per share) for the respective years. Also, in an attempt to examine the relatively market price per share across the sampled industries, the study made use of the one-way analysis of variance; while the Granger causality test was also conducted to ascertain whether bi-directional relationships exist between explanatory variable and the dependent variable (i.e. corporate social and environmental expenditure and market price per share). Findings from the study revealed that the association between corporate social and environmental expenditure and the market price of the firm (when considered in aggregate) is not significant. The result from the Analysis of Variance (ANOVA) showed that the market price per share is significantly different across the industries.

Rapid changes in business transactions and technology development have made risk-based management a significant issue for business entities. The ability in managing risk would lead to a better firm value. This study investigates the effect of enterprise risk-based management disclosures (ERMD) and intellectual capital (IC) on firm value. It also tests the moderating effect of profitability on the relationship ERMD and IC with firm value. It examines the annual reports of 49 finance firms listed on the Indonesia Stock Exchange (IDX). The data cover three years, from 2016 to 2018. It employs panel data regression to test the hypotheses. The results show that the effect of ERMD and IC on firm value is partially and positively moderated by profitability. The findings show that the application of ERDM and IC can increase firm value. The originality of this study is that profitability can moderate the effect of ERMD and IC on firm value. The increase of ERMD and IC management within the company must be balanced with profitability to raise capital from outside the company to increase firm value.

Acknowledgment
The Research was conducted with the support of the Universitas Riau, Indonesia.

Reporting on corporate sustainability practices as being in congruence with social expectations is the core idea of legitimacy theory. Therefore, nowadays many organizations are making efforts to inform their stakeholders about the social, environmental and economic changes in their performance. Consistent with the argument above, this paper aims to examine the quantity and quality of corporate online sustainability information of the industrial sector in Jordan based on the Global Reporting Initiative guidelines. In line with content analysis method, this paper analyzes the quantitative sustainability indicators disclosed during last 7 years (2012–2018) by all the industrial sub-sectors listed on the website of Amman Stock Exchange. The results revealed that although all Jordanian industrial sub-sectors practice of the quantitative sustainability disclosure is in a modest degree in the period of 2012–2018, the emphasis on environmental and economic indicators was less than on social indicators in the corporate online reports. Results on qualitative analysis indicated that, considering all sustainability indicators, only the disclosure on indirect economic impacts, procurement practices, product responsibility, and economic performance have been reported at satisfactory levels of quality but with no compliance of GRI guidelines. According to the obtained results, policy makers in the Jordanian industrial sector should be very important players in order to open the channels of dialogue with corporate managers on the importance of their role in taking more responsibility for their non-financial operations. Consequently, this should ensure more transparent accountability through more quantitative and qualitative sustainability disclosure in the corporate reports.