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From Regression to Reasoning: Predicting M&A Announcement Returns With Large Language Models

European Financial Management, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study investigates whether large language models (LLMs) can predict short‐term market reactions to M&A announcements. We prompt OpenAI's latest reasoning models (o3, GPT‐5, and GPT‐5.1) to forecast whether the combined market value of acquirer and target will increase or decrease, drawing on deal‐, firm‐, and macroeconomic data for large ...
Maximilian Schreiter, Aldrik Struve, Maximilian Uhle   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Can Coercive Vertical Consolidation Improve the Financial Condition of Local Authorities?

Financial Accountability &Management, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Vertical consolidation of small local authorities providing neighborhood services and large authorities providing strategic services into unitary authorities is assumed to improve financial condition by creating new economies of scale and scope.
Rhys Andrews, Dennis De Widt
wiley   +1 more source

Brand Equity and Debt Diversification

Financial Management, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study examines how brand equity influences the diversity of firms’ debt structures. We propose that brand equity, by signaling larger and more stable future cash flows and greater product market awareness, alters the fundamental trade‐offs that drive optimal debt type diversity.
David C. Mauer, Miaomiao Yu, Aihuan Zhang   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Who Bears the Pen? Audit Partner–Manager Report Signatures, Multilevel Accountability and Audit Quality in China

International Journal of Auditing, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Using data pertaining to China's mandatory two‐signature regime, under which a certified public accountant licensed as an audit manager can serve as an audit report signatory, we examine whether reallocating accountability within the audit engagement team is associated with audit quality.
Yanming Cao, Jengfang Chen, Meiting Lu, Grant Richardson   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

MANAGEMENT OF ACCOUNTS RECEIVABLE IN A COMPANY

Ekonomska misao i praksa, 2013
Upravljanje potraživanjima od kupaca neposredno utječe na profitabilnost poduzeća. Svrha empirijskog istraživanja je analizirati potraživanja kupaca i ovisnost ulaganja u potraživanja kupaca i profitabilnosti poduzeća iskazane u obliku Return on Assets (ROA).
openaire   +2 more sources

Lost in the Noise: How IPO Suspensions Distract Venture Capitalists From Monitoring Portfolio Firms

Journal of Business Finance &Accounting, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT We examine how regulatory suspensions of initial public offerings (IPOs) affect venture capitalists’ (VCs’) post‐IPO monitoring of portfolio firms in China. Using a difference‐in‐differences design that exploits three major IPO suspension episodes as quasi‐natural experiments, we provide causal evidence that these shocks divert VCs’ attention ...
Ao Li, Yue Pan, Gary Gang Tian, Pengdong Zhang   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Effects of Regulatory Office Closures on Bank Behavior

Journal of Money, Credit and Banking, EarlyView.
Abstract We investigate if the decentralized structure of regulatory office networks influences supervisory outcomes and bank behavior. Following the closure of an office, banks previously supervised by that office increase their lending and risk‐taking.
IVAN LIM, JENS HAGENDORFF, SETH ARMITAGE
wiley   +1 more source

Lubricating Role of Supply Chain Vertical Common Ownership in the Breakthrough of Key Core Technology: Evidence and Policy Implications From China

Asia &the Pacific Policy Studies, Volume 13, Issue 3, September 2026.
ABSTRACT This study explores whether and how vertical common ownership along the supply chain plays a lubricating role in key core technology breakthroughs. Using a dataset of Chinese listed companies from 2007 to 2023, we find that vertical common institutional ownership significantly promotes the breakthrough of key core technology.
Jiejin Xia, Tao Xiong, Tanling Tang
wiley   +1 more source

THE BUSINESS VALUE [PDF]

Management & Marketing, 2008
Almost every sales opportunity required us to get involved with our customer`s finance department to develop a business case or cost justification.
Luigi DUMITRESCU, Camelia APOSTU
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Accounting Rules and the Labor Market for Accountants

Journal of Accounting Research, Volume 64, Issue 4, Page 1457-1513, September 2026.
ABSTRACT In this study, I explore how accounting rules—in particular the restrictiveness of GAAP—have impacted the labor market for accountants. I find that when the rules become more restrictive, there are fewer students majoring in accounting and fewer accountants and auditors overall. The overall number of accounting positions that firms recruit for
ANTHONY LE
wiley   +1 more source