Download or read book The Decision Usefulness of Additional Fair Value Disclosures written by Theresa Herrmann and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-12-28 with total page 189 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Conducting an experiment Theresa Herrmann investigates why nonprofessional investors fail to incorporate disclosures on fair value estimates into their investment decision and what causes this exclusion. Differentiating between different types of disclosures and the development of the fair value (gain vs. loss) the results indicate that with a fair value gain, none of the disclosure information increases decision usefulness, irrespective of the presentation format. When a fair value loss occurs, fair value disclosures presented in a salient presentation format decrease decision usefulness. Thus, investors have varying information needs that are strongly linked to the development of a firm’s key asset.