Searchability and Machine-Readability of the Financial Statements of the Czech Business Corporations and Their Influence on the Financial Performance

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Result on the web

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Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Searchability and Machine-Readability of the Financial Statements of the Czech Business Corporations and Their Influence on the Financial Performance

Original language description

Financial and non-financial data presented in the financial statements and annual reports represent a valuable information source capturing economic activities in business corporations, accounting units. Machine-readable (or at least searchable) financial statements allow software equipment to find, to recognise and to extract easily data and valuable information about, e.g. ownership of risk-assets, cryptocurrencies or research and development activities. The paper aims to find out whether the Czech business corporations prepare their financial statements in the machine-readable/searchable format and whether the machine-readability/searchability is connected to their financial performance. The examined period was 2015-2017, and logistic regression was used. The data was obtained from the Czech Business Register by using a software script written by the authors and from the database of Czech and Slovak economic entities Bisnode Magnusweb. We discovered that most business corporations prepare non-searchable financial statements (no company prepares machine-readable statements). The ratio of searchable statements decreases each year. More companies change their statements from searchable to non-searchable than vice versa during the examined period. We found out that companies with non-searchable statements are more likely to have higher future long-term performance.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

D - Article in proceedings

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

50206 - Finance

Project

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Continuities

S - Specificky vyzkum na vysokych skolach

Publication year

2019

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Article name in the collection

Proceedings of the 16th International Scientific Conference European Financial Systems 2019

ISBN

9788021093386

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e-ISSN

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Number of pages

8

Pages from-to

155-162

Publisher name

Masaryk University Press

Place of publication

Brno, Czech Republic

Event location

Brno, Czech Republic

Event date

Jan 1, 2019

Type of event by nationality

WRD - Celosvětová akce

UT code for WoS article

000503222600018