Financial reporting quality of ESG firms listed in China. [PDF]
PLoS One, 2023 Wu M, Abeysekera I.
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Lifting the veil of accounting information under different accounting standards: lessons learned from the German experiment [PDF]
It is well-known from US-related studies that investors systematically overreact to accrual-based accounting information. We address the question to what extent this accrual anomaly is related to different accounting standards.
Adamek, Carmen, Kaserer, Christoph
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Pre-merger Earnings Management: Sarbanes Oxley, Leverage and Non-cash Acquisition Premia [PDF]
, 2012 The objective of this thesis is to investigate earnings management within a structured sample design focusing upon a M&A context in the US by addressing three main empirical questions in three studies.
Alsharairi, Malek Ahmad Refai +1 more
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Capital taxation, income shifting and retained earnings: evidence from dividend tax reforms
Fiscal Studies, EarlyView.AbstractIn this paper, we analyse the effects of dividend tax reforms on tax revenues, income shifting and earnings retention. We examine two significant policy changes in Israel during the 2010s. Using administrative tax records, we study a permanent increase of 5 percentage points in the dividend tax rate in 2012 and a temporary tax relief enacted in
Yonatan Berman, Esteban F. Klor
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Real earnings management and ESG disclosure in emerging markets: The moderating effect of managerial ownership from a social norm perspective. [PDF]
Heliyon, 2023 Liu T +3 more
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Explaining earnings persistence: a threshold autoregressive panel unit root approach [PDF]
This paper proposes a reassessment to the hypothesis that the persistence of current earnings performance is decreasing in the magnitude of the accrual component of earnings and increasing in the magnitude of the cash flow component of earnings. For this
Galimberti, Jaqueson Kingeski +1 more
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Real Effects of Subjectivity in Measuring Fair Values
Journal of Accounting Research, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study examines how the subjectivity in measuring fair values of assets without readily observable market prices affects investment efficiency and shareholder value. When fair values are objective measures of asset value, they facilitate efficient investment decisions that align with shareholder interests.
VERENA BRAUN +3 more
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Monitoring Quality of Mafia‐Connected Accountants
Journal of Accounting Research, EarlyView.ABSTRACT We investigate the monitoring quality of accountants with ties to the Mafia in their role as auditors for “clean” firms—those with no known ties to organized crime. Using a proprietary government database, we identify Italian firms with alleged ties to the Mafia through their executives, directors, or shareholders.
Pietro A. Bianchi +3 more
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The Covid-19 outbreak, corporate financial distress and earnings management. [PDF]
Int Rev Financ Anal, 2023 Aljughaiman AA +3 more
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Non‐Fundamental Loan Renegotiations
Journal of Accounting Research, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Prior studies predominantly examine fundamental performance‐driven explanations of loan renegotiations. We contrast with this work by investigating the improvement in secondary loan market trading conditions as a non‐fundamental driver of loan renegotiation. Exploiting a regression discontinuity design around the LSTA 100 Index reconstitution,
AJ YUAN CHEN +3 more
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