{"id":35803,"date":"2026-08-07T10:53:02","date_gmt":"2026-08-07T14:53:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/poole.ncsu.edu\/thought-leadership\/?p=35803"},"modified":"2026-08-07T10:53:06","modified_gmt":"2026-08-07T14:53:06","slug":"cfo-dive-reports-on-carly-burds-tax-report-transparency-research","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/poole.ncsu.edu\/thought-leadership\/article\/cfo-dive-reports-on-carly-burds-tax-report-transparency-research\/","title":{"rendered":"CFO Dive Reports on Carly Burd&#8217;s Tax Report Transparency Research"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">CFO Dive reported on new research by <a href=\"https:\/\/poole.ncsu.edu\/people\/carly-burd\/\">Poole College\u2019s Carly Burd<\/a> about the benefit of transparency in company reports. Burd, an assistant professor of accounting, published a study examining whether including certain tax-related information in reports benefited or hurt publicly traded companies. She ultimately determined that it<a href=\"https:\/\/poole.ncsu.edu\/thought-leadership\/article\/study-finds-sharing-tax-numbers-boosts-transparency-not-confusion-for-investors\/\"> increases transparency and allows investors to make more informed decisions<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">CFO Dive reached out to Burd for comment. \u201cAnalysts are better enabled to implicitly forecast tax outcomes when firms report more granular numeric tax detail, especially in the footnotes, which is most valuable for firms with complex tax positions,\u201d she said. \u201cNarrative disclosure helps, but not in the way numeric does.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cfodive.com\/news\/tax-numbers-aid-analysts-more-narratives-study-irs\/825607\/\">Read more at CFO Dive\u2019s website<\/a>. The article was also <a href=\"https:\/\/finance.yahoo.com\/economy\/policy\/articles\/tax-numbers-aid-analysts-more-150700936.html\">syndicated to Yahoo Finance<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false,"raw":"<!-- wp:ncst\/dynamic-header {\"block\":\"ncst\/default-post-header\"} -->\n<!-- wp:ncst\/default-post-header {\"displayCategoryID\":170,\"subtitle\":\"The Poole College assistant accounting professor explained that numeric disclosure helps more than narratives.\"} \/-->\n<!-- \/wp:ncst\/dynamic-header -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>CFO Dive reported on new research by <a href=\"https:\/\/poole.ncsu.edu\/people\/carly-burd\/\">Poole College\u2019s Carly Burd<\/a> about the benefit of transparency in company reports. Burd, an assistant professor of accounting, published a study examining whether including certain tax-related information in reports benefited or hurt publicly traded companies. She ultimately determined that it<a href=\"https:\/\/poole.ncsu.edu\/thought-leadership\/article\/study-finds-sharing-tax-numbers-boosts-transparency-not-confusion-for-investors\/\"> increases transparency and allows investors to make more informed decisions<\/a>.<\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>CFO Dive reached out to Burd for comment. \u201cAnalysts are better enabled to implicitly forecast tax outcomes when firms report more granular numeric tax detail, especially in the footnotes, which is most valuable for firms with complex tax positions,\u201d she said. \u201cNarrative disclosure helps, but not in the way numeric does.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cfodive.com\/news\/tax-numbers-aid-analysts-more-narratives-study-irs\/825607\/\">Read more at CFO Dive\u2019s website<\/a>. 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