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• Impact of the sustainability report on Hungarian stock prices

  94-107

  Tömöri Gergő

  Lakatos Vilmos

  Megtekintések száma:

  184

  ESG reporting has become increasingly significant for evaluating corporate sustainability. Our study examined firms that had been publicly listed for several years by 2023, and which had already engaged in ESG reporting voluntarily, showing an early, consistent commitment to sustainability despite the absence of regulatory requirements. We hypothesised that this group’s market valuation metrics would reflect a more favourable and realistic investor assessment compared to a control group. However, our findings revealed that while statistically significant differences appeared primarily in the Price-to-Book Value (P/BV) ratios, overall, the investor assessments did not yet demonstrate a statistically significant divergence on average. This may suggest that ESG reports serve more as marketing tools than as indicators of genuine sustainable resource management, which some investors recognise from other mandatory financial disclosures. These insights can support further research on the Hungarian investment climate and aid in refining EU sustainability directives within Hungary’s regulatory framework.

  JEL classification code: Q56, G11

• The effect of the transition to IFRS on the value judgement of investors

  3-19

  Szekeres Alexandra

  Tömöri Gergő

  Megtekintések száma:

  341

  In our research, we examined the profitability of companies switching to IFRS and the value judgement of investors in the two accounting systems. During the examination, we established that there is no significant difference in the ROS and ROA profitability indicators in the two accounting systems. It is important to note that in the case of both indicators, for companies with a high fixed asset requirement, there is a significant difference in the two accounting systems based on the results of the Wilcoxon rank sum test. Taking into account the number of elements of the clusters, their proportion, and the value of the effect size, in our opinion, the conclusion cannot be drawn for the entire basic population that the indicators significantly differed as a result of the transition, because the difference can only be observed in the cluster with a lower number of elements, or a particularly strong relationship cannot be revealed for any of the indicators. On the other hand, for the ROE indicator, a significant difference can be clearly established in the two accounting systems, as the significant relationship can be demonstrated both in companies with low and high capital requirements. Overall, in the IFRS, the companies showed more favourable profitability with regard to the ROE indicator. The second examination of our research is related to this, which aimed to determine whether the significant deviation of the ROE indicator in the year of the transition can be attributed to the transition to IFRS.

  JEL classification code: M40