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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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Pass‐Through of Cocoa Prices Along the Supply Chain: What's Left for Farmers in Côte d'Ivoire?
Journal of Agricultural Economics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Most cocoa farmers in Côte d'Ivoire are trapped in a cycle of poverty and farming practices that degrade the environment. This paper aims to provide an in‐depth understanding of the price formation process for cocoa at each stage of the supply chain in the world's largest cocoa‐producing country.
Kathrin Kaestner +2 more
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Criminology, EarlyView.Abstract Three‐quarters of US prisons offer vocational training programs, which aim to place trainees in middle‐skills jobs in specific occupational sectors post‐release. These middle‐skills jobs may more effectively reduce recidivism than the jobs that normally characterize the labor market experience of the formerly incarcerated, yet whether ...
Britte van Tiem
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Application of deep learning in recognition of accrued earnings management. [PDF]
Heliyon, 2023 Li J, Sun Z.
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The RAND Journal of Economics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT We study a long‐horizon, oligopolistic market with random shocks to demand that can be arbitraged by two storage operators with finite capacity. This problem applies to any storable commodity—that is, most commodities. Because the arbitrage spread is so sensitive to market power, storage operators face strong incentives to restrain quantities ...
Sergei Balakin, Guillaume Roger
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Accounting Perspectives, Volume 24, Issue 1, Page 157-188, March 2025.ABSTRACT This empirically grounded commentary explores the impacts of the COVID‐19 pandemic on the strategic direction of Canada's accounting profession and highlights opportunities and challenges that lie ahead in the post‐pandemic era. We undertake a systematic literature review using deductive and inductive approaches within both the academic ...
Merridee Bujaki +4 more
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Audit Quality From a Service Perspective: A Systematic Literature Review
Accounting Perspectives, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Audit quality is a multidimensional and latent construct that researchers struggle to evaluate and interpret. This paper follows an interdisciplinary approach by systematically reviewing the literature on audit quality evaluation from a service quality perspective.
Lise Muriel Botha +3 more
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Contemporary Accounting Research, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper examines whether lenders' risk preferences explain the use of cost‐synergy adjustments in loan contracts. These adjustments represent an aggressive accounting choice that permits borrowers to add expected cost savings and synergy gains from mergers, acquisitions, and restructurings to contractual earnings. Using novel data from loan
Shushu Jiang
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Earnings management in socially responsible firms around seasoned equity offerings: Evidence from France, Germany, Italy and Spain. [PDF]
Heliyon, 2023 González-Sánchez M +2 more
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Nature on the balance sheet: Accountability for Nature Positive
Methods in Ecology and Evolution, EarlyView.Abstract Nature loss poses a growing risk to the global economy, prompting calls for enhanced business accountability. To support the urgent business transformations required to achieve Nature Positive goals, decision‐makers, investors, lenders and other stakeholders need consistent, comparable and decision‐useful information on the state of nature and
Greg Smith +6 more
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