Abstract:
This study explores the impact of good corporate governance on the information content of earnings and cash flows from operating activity. The study emphasizes on the firms' characteristics, the awarded or non-awarded good corporate governance announced by the Baselining Corporate Governance Practices of Thai listed companies excluding financial and insurance companies. Cumulative Abnormal Returns (CAR), Unexpected Earnings (UE) and Unexpected Cash Flows from Operating activity (UCFO) of the awarded good corporate governance firms and non-awarded good corporate governance firms during the years 2001-2004 are analized by the simple regression and multiple regression analysis at the statistically significant level of .05 The results indicate that both earnings and cash flows from operating activity have information content, based on the relation between cumulative abnormal returns and earnings and cash flows from operating activity. There is also the evidence of the impact of the good corporate governance on the information content of earnings. However, there is no evidence of the impact of the good corporate governance on the information content of cash flows from operating activity.