Experience in Generating Non-Financial Reports in Enterprises

Financial Risks: Cases Of Non-Financial Enterprises

Analyzing Financial Reports

There is a vast amount of financial information on companies’ financial performance available to investors today. While automatic analysis of financial figures is common, it has been difficult to automatically extract meaning from the textual part of financial reports. The textual part of an annual report contains richer information than the financial ratios. In this paper, we combine data mini...

Disagreement in Partners' Reports of Financial Difficulty

Disagreement in Partners’ Reports of Financial Difficulty We use unique data in which both partners report about household finances to demonstrate that there is often disagreement about whether the household has experienced financial difficulty in the past year. Four alternative explanations for this disagreement are tested using the data. The results indicate that disagreement may be related t...

Experience - the neglected success factor in enterprises?

The effective use of experience as a valuable resource can give companies a competitive edge in a world characterised by an ageing workforce and globalisation. An online survey was conducted in Austria, Germany and Switzerland to find out managers’ attitudes towards experience and if and how they capture, use and disseminate it. The results show that the majority consider experience an importan...

Are XBRL-based Financial Reports Better than Non-XBRL Reports? A Quality Assessment

Using a scoring system, this paper provides a comparative assessment of the quality of data between XBRL formatted financial reports and non-XBRL financial reports. It shows a major improvement in the quality of data of XBRL formatted financial reports. Although XBRL formatted financial reports do not show much advantage in the quality at the beginning, XBRL financial reports lately display a l...