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Recommendations From Sec’S Plain English Handbook: Perspectives From Behavioral Research, Clarence Goh
Recommendations From Sec’S Plain English Handbook: Perspectives From Behavioral Research, Clarence Goh
Research Collection School Of Accountancy
The SEC published the plain English handbook in 1998 with the objective of providing preparers of financial disclosures with a guide to using well-established techniques to create clearer and more informative disclosure documents. The handbook provides various recommendations to preparers of disclosure documents. In this study, I examine and systematically synthesize the extent behavioural research literature that investigates the impact of implementing these recommendations on investors. I do so by developing a framework to systematically examine relevant studies. Overall, the analysis provides important insights from a behavioural perspective into how and why investors react to various recommendations in the SEC’s …