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The purpose of this study is to investigate whether investors react to the differences between sales revenues (income from main operations) disclosed in the parent’s financial statement and those in the consolidated financial statement. We conjecture if investors can understand the differences between the parent’s financial statement and the consolidated statement, they may sell stocks for those whose revenues (income from main operations) disclosed in the parent’s financial statement are higher than those disclosed in the consolidated financial statement. We use t test and Wilcoxon Z test to examine whether the cumulative abnormal return is significantly negative when revenues (income from main operations) shown in the parent’s financial statement are higher than those shown in the consolidated financial statement. We also use regression to examine whether the abnormal cumulative abnormal return is related to the differences disclosed in the parent’s financial statement and the consolidated financial statement. The univariate results indicate that the cumulative abnormal return is not significantly negative when revenues (income from main operations) shown in the parent’s financial statement are higher than those shown in the consolidated financial statement. Moreover, the regression results show that investors’ reaction to the difference between the income shown in the parent’s financial statement and in the consolidated statement is insignificant. It seems that investors may still focus on the financial statement of the parent company but ignore the information provided by the consolidated statement. Keywords: Parent’s financial statement; consolidated financial statement, differences in revenues; differences in income from main operations; investors’ reaction.
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