The Benefits of Quarterly Reporting with Salman Arif

In this episode, CII General Counsel Jeff Mahoney interviews Professor Salman Arif, assistant professor of accounting at Indiana University’s Kelley School of Business. Professor Arif discusses his recent research paper that examines the effects of the frequency of corporate financial reporting on investors and the capital markets. The paper is timely given President’s Trump’s August 17 tweet announcing that he has asked the Securities and Exchange Commission to study whether public companies should be allowed to publish semi-annual, rather than quarterly, financial reports.