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Objective: This study analyzed a potential relationship between accounting asset informativeness and Brazilian companies' systematic risk. The research hypothesis assumes that factors restricting uncertainty, including better-quality information, decrease investors' risk perception. Method: Regressions were estimated with panel data, using data concerning 2010 to 2021 from 186 companies. In addition to overall asset informativeness, the analysis included informativeness resulting from the companies' choices (discretionary portion) and informativeness inferred from related companies in the same sector (non-discretionary portion). Results: Asset informativeness proved relevant and negatively associated with the Brazilian companies' systematic risk, with its non-discretionary portion having a more intense effect on systematic risk than the discretionary portion. Contributions: This study's results are relevant for users of accounting information, those who prepare accounting reports, and regulators as it contributes to the discussion on the quality of accounting information, highlighting its relationship with the systematic risk of companies through a measure focused on assets, and suggesting metrics that can assist in the estimation of the companies' value, besides providing evidence of the economic consequences of accounting choices. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The objective of this article was to analyze the impact of International Financial Reporting Standard 16 (IFRS 16) and the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic on the indicators of Brazilian lessee companies, segregated by economic sector. The effects of IFRS 16 after its entry into force and of COVID-19 simultaneously with the concession of the International Accounting Standards Board (IASB) on the indicators of lessee companies, segregated by Brazilian economic sectors, were not yet known. The study contributes to the literature by providing evidence on the consequences of the accounting standard setters' decisions, as well as the COVID-19 pandemic, on the indicators of different economic sectors. The study helps both preparers and regulators to understand the impact of the accounting standardization and COVID-19 on the indicators of lessee companies according to economic activity. For investors, it shows the importance of anticipating the impact of the standards on their decision making. A comparative analysis of the indicators before and after the adoption of the new standard and the pandemic was carried out, as well as a statistical relevance analysis for the indicators of public companies, by economic sector and using the difference-in-differences method and multiple linear regression with panel data, for the period from 2010 to 2020. The study showed that the impact of IFRS 16 on the indicators was differentiated by sector, with healthcare, oil, gas, and biofuels, and cyclical consumption being the most affected. The standard was not relevant to the value of most sectors, with the exception of healthcare and non-cyclical consumption, showing that investors were positively surprised by the adoption of IFRS 16 by these sectors. The effect of COVID-19, combined with the IASB's concession to lessees, was positive for profitability and earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization (EBITDA) in the healthcare sector, but did not reverse the deterioration in leverage and profitability of the industrial goods sector and the lessees as a whole and the profitability of the cyclical consumption sector, highlighting the partial effectiveness of the measure. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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This article aims to analyze the incorporation of Webjet by Gol, in 2011, from the perspective of the owners of each of the companies, considering the value of the transaction and the gains generated by synergies arising from the operation. The quantitative analysis used the discounted cash flow method to evaluate each companies' value vis-à-vis the amount of the transaction, and the Tobin's q, to verify if there was synergistic gain. The results indicated that (i) Webjet shareholders experienced wealth gain from the transaction and (ii) the transaction did not generate synergistic gains for Gol's shareholders. This article also contributes to the literature by expanding the knowledge applied to the airline incorporations, in addition to adding to the evidence that targeted companies are generally benefited by mergers and acquisitions even in the absence of synergistic gains. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Family agriculture has practically neither credit access nor insurance against risks. Several administrations have implemented supporting programs due to the importance of family agriculture. Programs are financed as a priority through the budget. Current analysis suggests the establishment of a guarantee credit composed of resources derived from the State and from contributions by farmers to reduce dependence of budget resources and make easy access to financial market by family agriculture farmers. The guarantee fund would guarantee interests of farmers ' debts when there are losses in production and other liabilities. During positive periods, the farmers provide resources to the fund to guarantee high actuarial results. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This study aims to empirically verify the determinants of the capital structure of Brazilian publicly traded companies on the BM&FBosvepa during 2010-2017. The factors considered in the analysis are those proposed in the main theories about capital structure: profitability, risk, size, tangibility and growth opportunities. Subsidiarily to these factors, a set of sectoral dummies was included in order to highlight any specific characteristic of a given economic sector. It was used the statistical method of panel data and models with fixed effects and with variable effects. The sample is composed of 186 companies, divided into 19 economic sectors. The statistical tests evidenced the non-significance of the sectors when pointing to the estimation of a model with fixed effects. The results indicate that profitability, risk and growth opportunities induce lower indebtedness, that company size induces greater indebtedness and that tangibility had no influence on the level of indebtedness of the companies of the sample in the studied period. In spite of their theoretical justification, the results obtained together do not confirm a specific theory about the capital structure of public companies. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]