Corporate Sustainability Determinants and Financial Statements Report Lag

Authors: Monday Olade IZEVBEKHAI (PhD); Isah MOHAMMED (PhD)

Affiliation: Department of Accountancy, School of Financial Studies, Auchi Polytechnic, Auchi

Corresponding Author: [email protected]

October 9, 2025

SIAR-Global Journal of Economics, Finance & Accounting

DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.17302573

Corporate Sustainability Determinants and Financial Statements Report Lag
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Abstract

The study evaluated corporate sustainability determinants and financial statement report lag. The specific objective was to ascertain emission reporting, effluents and waste reporting, compliance to environmental laws and biodiversity reporting have significant effect on financial statement report lag of listed healthcare firms in Nigeria. The secondary source of data collection was adopted in the study where the purposive sampling technique was used to select a sample size of twelve (12) listed manufacturing firms for the study. Least Square regression analysis was used in this study and the findings revealed that emission reporting, effluents and waste reporting, compliance to environmental laws and biodiversity reporting have no significant effect on financial statement report lag of listed healthcare firms in Nigeria. The study concluded that emission reporting, effluents and waste reporting, compliance to environmental laws and biodiversity reporting all have no significant effect on financial statement report lag of listed healthcare firms in Nigeria. Finally, it was recommended that managers need to strengthen their ability to recognize and find innovative solutions for a wide range of managerial issues in order to lessen the detrimental impact that waste and effluent activities have on management fraud. Managers should also create innovative techniques to reduce waste and effluents without compromising output. 

Keywords

Financial statements reporting, emission reporting, effluents and waste reporting, compliance to environmental laws, biodiversity reporting

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Monday Olade IZEVBEKHAI (PhD); Isah MOHAMMED (PhD) (2025). Corporate Sustainability Determinants and Financial Statements Report Lag. SIAR-Global Journal of Economics, Finance & Accounting, Vol. 1, No. 1. DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.17302573

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  • Type: Research Article
  • Journal: SIAR-Global Journal of Economics, Finance & Accounting
  • Subject Area: Management
  • Published: October 9, 2025
  • Volume: 1
  • Issue: 1
  • Word Count: Not specified
  • DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.17302573
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