clearly enhance productivity through streamlining their assets as part of a restructuring
campaign. In this study, we examine 47 firms that voluntarily disclosed asset write-down
information in either 10-K or ARS one year prior to the mandatory adoption of SFAS 121. Our
study found that EARLY firms (those who adopted SFAS 121 in 1995, one year prior to the
mandatory adoption) experienced a more positive market reaction than LATE firms (those …