Review article
INTERDEPENDANCE OF ACCOUNTING DATA AND STOCK PRICES ON THE CAPITAL MARKET: “PLIVA” CASE STUDY
Željana Aljinović Barać
; Faculty of economics University of Split, Split, Croatia
Abstract
The issue of stock market usefulness is, in fact, related to the specific disclosure environment prevailing in
a country. Croatian capital market is underdeveloped and has limited significance in the financial system.
This paper deals with the usefulness of financial statement information and it is organized in the following
way: in the first part we give a brief overview of capital markets in transition economies, history and
regulation of the stock market in Croatia, with particular focus on the Zagreb Stock Exchange. Then, we
enumerate the data collection procedure and describe the methodology used to test our hypothesis. We
examine the information content of annual earnings announcements through its impact on the stock price
movement in the case of Pliva’s ordinary shares, listed on the Quotation I of the Zagreb Stock Exchange.
Finally, at the end of the paper we discuss the results and drew conclusions. The evidence suggests that
annual earnings announcements made by Pliva convey new and material information to stock market
investors, which is reflected in significant changes in stock return
Keywords
Capital market; accounting data; earnings; stock return; stock price
Hrčak ID:
103496
URI
Publication date:
20.12.2003.
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