THE INFLUENCE OF VOLUNTARY DISCLOSURE ON COST OF FINANCING DEBT IN LISTED BRAZILIAN COMPANIES IN BM&FBOVESPA

• Autor(a) principal: Barros, Claudio Marcelo Edwards
• Data de Publicação: 2017
• Outros Autores: Kos, Sonia Raifur, Consoni, Silvia, Colauto, Romualdo Douglas
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Revista Ambiente Contábil
• Texto Completo: https://periodicos.ufrn.br/ambiente/article/view/10204
• topic: debt cost. Voluntary Disclosure. Added Value Statement.; El coste de la deuda. La divulgación voluntaria. Añadido Declaración de Valor.; Custo de dívida. Disclosure voluntário. Demonstração do Valor adicionado.

Corporate decisions directed to increase voluntary disclosure level may influence the cost of capital. In this sense, the objective of this research is to identify the effect of voluntary disclosure on debt cost of short and long-term financing in companies listed on the BM & FBOVESPA. The rationale for this study is to provide an alternative methodological approach to the examination of third-party capital cost. In this study, unlike previous studies, it is not uses financial expenses present in Income Statement (DRE) as proxy for the cost of debt (Ke), but interest expenses that make up the third-party capital remuneration in the Value Added Statement (DVA). The sample comprises 57 Brazilian companies. To achieve the proposed goal, it was used as the dependent variable debt cost (Ke) and as the independent variable the voluntary disclosure index (IDV) proposed by Consoni e Colauto (2016). As statistical method of parameter estimation, it was used multiple linear regression for ordinary least squares (OLS) and generalized least squares (GLS) combined with examination of the presence of multivariate outliers by Mahalanobis distance. The results suggest that although the sample companies differ in levels of spontaneous disclosure and also differences in the cost of financing, indications were identified that voluntary disclosure would adversely affect the cost of debt. The study is relevant because it presents as a novelty the use of debt service costs obtained from the DVA.