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Segment Disclosure Transparency And Internal Capital Market Efficiency: Evidence From Sfas No. 131, Young Jun Cho
Segment Disclosure Transparency And Internal Capital Market Efficiency: Evidence From Sfas No. 131, Young Jun Cho
Research Collection School of Accountancy
Using the adoption of SFAS 131, I examine the effect of segment disclosure transparency on internal capital market efficiency. SFAS 131 requires firms to define segments as internally viewed by managers, thereby improving the transparency of managerial actions in internal capital allocation. I find that diversified firms that improved segment disclosure transparency by changing segment definitions upon adoption of SFAS 131 experienced an improvement in capital allocation efficiency in internal capital markets after the adoption of SFAS 131. In addition, I find that the improvement in internal capital market efficiency was greater for firms that suffered more severe agency problems …