Saturday, August 12, 2006

Call for better corporate disclosure rings in UAE


UAE companies must reveal more information to investors and improve corporate governance if they are to help curb the sharp swings in local share prices, a top investment professional said.

The call came a day after the UAE market regulator said it had issued warnings to two local and five foreign listed companies for not meeting the July 31 deadline for reporting their second-quarter results.

Zuheir Tamim Al Jarkass, president of CFA Emirates, the local body of chartered financial analysts (CFA), said investment analysts in the UAE find it hard to forecast a company's cash flows or evaluate risk, since firms do not disclose adequate and timely information.

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