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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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Abacus, EarlyView.This study examines whether comparable financial information can mitigate differences between individual and institutional investors’ trading behaviour, particularly behaviour that is shaped by investor sentiment. The results indicate that the higher the comparability, the smaller the gap in trading behaviour driven by investor sentiment between ...
Eun Hye Jo, Jung Wha (Jenny) Lee
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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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The Lifecycle of Typical IPOs: The Characteristics of Surviving Firms
Accounting &Finance, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper explores the dynamics of firm evolution by analysing the timing and sequencing of a firm's innovation, investment, financing and payout decisions following an IPO. We apply real options theory to analyse our sample that includes all IPOs listed on the NYSE, NYSE MKT and NASDAQ since 1976, categorised into surviving, voluntarily ...
Jennifer Gippel +4 more
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Accounting &Finance, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Using textual analysis of clients' qualitative corporate risk factor disclosures (RFDs) from firms' 10‐K filings, we investigate how RFDs influence auditors' assessments of client business risk (CBR), as reflected in their pricing and reporting behaviour. We find that auditors charge clients who disclose more extensive RFDs approximately 5%–7%
Sarowar Hossain, Ryan Zihang Peng
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Faith, gender and financial investment: Providence and Presbyterianism in Scotland and abroad
Asia‐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
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