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Commentary: The Canadian Accounting Hall of Fame—An Analysis of Early Inductees and Immanent Critique*,†

open access: yesAccounting Perspectives, Volume 24, Issue 1, Page 251-274, March 2025.
ABSTRACT The Canadian Accounting Hall of Fame (CAHF) has inducted 31 members during its first three years of operation, with the stated intent of establishing a critical mass of inductees “who have made significant contributions to the development of the Canadian accounting profession” and of creating “a curated biographical history of accounting in ...
Alan J. Richardson
wiley   +1 more source

Lawyer CEOs and Strategic Disclosure of Litigation Loss Contingencies

open access: yesAbacus, EarlyView.
Using hand‐collected data, we find that lawyer CEOs, defined as CEOs with a legal education background, tend to make first disclosures about pending litigation cases on a timelier basis for litigation cases that end up with material losses than do non‐lawyer CEOs.
Feng Chen   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

CEO's Early‐life Experience of Disasters and Corporate Environmental Performance

open access: yesAbacus, EarlyView.
We investigate the nexus between the early‐life disaster experiences of chief executive officers (CEOs) and their firms’ environmental performance metrics. We hypothesize that first‐hand experience of the adversities of natural disasters in the formative years of a CEO can catalyze a transformation in their environmental cognizance and perspective ...
Shushu Liao   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

CEO‐Board Social Ties and Corporate Tax Avoidance

open access: yesAccounting &Finance, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study examines CEO‐board social ties that engage in corporate tax avoidance. We find that an increasing proportion of CEO‐board social ties in a firm is associated with higher levels of tax avoidance. Our results withstand several endogeneity tests, including propensity score matching, entropy balancing and a difference‐in‐differences ...
Chen Chen   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Faith, gender and financial investment: Providence and Presbyterianism in Scotland and abroad

open access: yesAsia‐Pacific Economic History Review, EarlyView.
Abstract Mid‐nineteenth century fictional representations of misdirected investment by widows and clergy position them as ignorant in financial matters and hence pitiable. While scholars have recognised female agency in nineteenth century commerce, insufficient attention has been paid to religious belief in financial decision‐making.
Jennifer Jones, Susan Poole
wiley   +1 more source

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