The countercyclical long-term operating accrual-based trading strategy in the Stoxx Europe 600 index: The importance of asset and liability components. [PDF]
PLoS One, 2022 Sandoval A, Márquez J, Cervera I.
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Auditor industry expertise and the predictive power of the deferred tax valuation allowance
Accounting &Finance, Volume 65, Issue 1, Page 323-364, March 2025.Abstract This paper investigates whether auditor industry expertise influences the predictive value of management earnings forecasts embedded in the deferred tax asset valuation allowance (VA). VAs depend on management's forecast of future taxable earnings and can provide investors with information about expected changes in future earnings.
Zhuoli Axelton +2 more
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Unveiling Corruption's Influence on Insider Trading: US Insights
Accounting &Finance, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study examines the relationship between state‐level political corruption and firm‐level insider trading in the United States. State corruption is proxied using Department of Justice court cases involving corrupt activities. The findings reveal a positive and statistically significant association between political corruption and insider ...
Ahmed Al‐Hadi +3 more
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Audit committee features and earnings management.
Heliyon, 2023 Nassir Zadeh F +3 more
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Economic Freedom and Audit Fees: Evidence From the USA
Accounting &Finance, EarlyView.ABSTRACT We examine the association between US state‐level economic freedom and audit fees. We argue that economic freedom lowers clients' perceived business risk, thereby requiring reduced audit effort and exposing auditors to a lower probability of litigation risk, which enables auditors to charge lower audit fees to clients headquartered in states ...
Mahmud Hossain +3 more
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Defence Contracting and Accrual‐Based Earnings Management
Accounting &Finance, EarlyView.ABSTRACT We examine accrual‐based earnings management in Spanish defence firms in 2011–2020, using a unique database from the Spanish Ministry of Defence. We find higher levels of accrual‐based earnings management and lower accrual quality in firms where defence contracts represent a high proportion of their total sales.
Francisco José Callado‐Muñoz +3 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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Farmers' pro‐social motivations and willingness‐to‐accept in markets with public goods
American Journal of Agricultural Economics, EarlyView.Abstract To explain how some farmers' decisions may diverge from profit‐maximization, we incorporate proactive social preferences for public goods in an expected utility framework, in addition to reactive risk preferences to uncertainty. We offer empirical evidence that proactive preferences influence farmers' decisions alongside reactive preferences ...
Jill Fitzsimmons +2 more
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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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Do tax havens affect the usage of share buybacks schemes?
Annals of Public and Cooperative Economics, EarlyView.Abstract This study examines whether the use of tax haven subsidiaries by U.S. multinational corporations (MNCs) is associated with more intense usage of share buybacks. I find that MNCs' more intensive tax haven subsidiary usage is positively associated with a higher buyback ratio, a higher level of free cash flow and a higher level of return on ...
Alessandro Chiari
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