The final enhancing qualitative characteristic defined in the ED is timeliness. “Timeliness means having information available to decision makers before it loses its capacity to influence decisions” (IASB, 2008: 40). Timeliness refers to the time it takes to reveal the information and is related to decision usefulness in general (IASB, 2008). When examining the quality of information in annual reports, timeliness is measured using the natural logarithm of amount of days between year end and the signature on the auditors’ report after year end is calculated. Based on the natural logarithm of this amount of days, each company received a score between 1 and 5.
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