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Accounting Perspectives, EarlyView.ABSTRACT A long‐standing debate exists between neutrality and conservatism in financial reporting. This debate has gained momentum following the 2010 FASB decision to remove the term conservatism from its Conceptual Framework. While neutrality is now promoted as a cornerstone of faithful representation, conservatism remains embedded in numerous ...
Rahat Jafri +2 more
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Does environmental uncertainty of enterprises aggravate the accrual anomaly in the stock market? Evidence from China. [PDF]
Front Psychol, 2022 Hu S, Wang S.
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Contemporary Accounting Research, EarlyView.ABSTRACT External audits enhance the credibility of financial statements and are a cornerstone of capital market integrity. However, the growing and complex auditing literature poses challenges for researchers. This survey synthesizes and critically evaluates archival audit research published in top accounting journals from 1995 to 2025, organizing ...
Clive Lennox, Chan Li, Yiqian Wang
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Do powerful CEOs matter for earnings quality? Evidence from Bangladesh. [PDF]
PLoS One, 2023 Arif HM, Mustapha MZ, Abdul Jalil A.
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Agency theory predicts that ownership structure monitoring mechanisms can effectively align the interests of managers with those of the shareholders. In additions, it views external audit as a function that lends credibility to the information disclosed ...
Idris, Mohammed I
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Contemporary Accounting Research, EarlyView.ABSTRACT We study how analysts' inherited cultural attitudes to time orientation affect their production of long‐term information and the profitability of their stock recommendations. We find that analysts from long‐term‐oriented cultures exhibit a longer forecast horizon and issue more long‐term forecasts.
Shuping Chen +3 more
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Why Do Firms Smooth Earnings? [PDF]
We explain why a firm may smooth reported earnings. Greater earnings volatility leads to a bigger informational advantage for informed investors over uninformed investors.
Anand Mohan Goel, Anjan V. Thakor
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Abacus, EarlyView.Relevance and faithful representation are identified by standard‐setters as fundamental qualitative characteristics for useful accounting information. We critically assess whether current pension measurement guidance under International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) and US generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP) results in pension ...
Divya Anantharaman, Darren Henderson
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Accrual earnings management, real earnings management, and information uncertainty [PDF]
The aim of this thesis is to contribute to the research on earnings management, by first investigating models of real earnings management, then extending the literature by examining both accrual and real earnings management ...
Nguyen, Thi Thu Ha
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Abacus, EarlyView.We investigate the effects of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board's (PCAOB) international inspection access on the value of cash holdings for non‐US companies. Utilizing a difference‐in‐differences (DiD) research design, we find that investors assign significantly higher value to a non‐US company's cash holdings when the company's non‐US ...
Hsiao‐Tang Hsu, Huichi Huang, Yutao Li
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