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EU Space Law and Earth's Boundaries: Integrating Environmental Impact Assessment and Corporate Due Diligence

open access: yesGlobal Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The European Union's proposed Space Law aims to establish a unified approach for sustainable space activities across the EU. While the EU's satellite constellations contribute to sustainability efforts, they can also have negative environmental impacts.
Elena Cirkovic, Vitali Braun
wiley   +1 more source

Development Lending and Debt Discipline: The Political Economy of External Finance in Brazil

open access: yesGlobal Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article examines Brazil's External Financing Commission (COFIEX), a centralized body that approves all public‐sector external borrowing and exemplifies efforts in middle‐income democracies to reconcile fiscal restraint with the demands of strategic public investment.
Benjamin Vidmar, Felipe Krause
wiley   +1 more source

Between Sustainable Development, Financialisation and Sovereign Debt Crisis: The Case of Blue Finance as Yet Another Iteration of the Washington Consensus

open access: yesGlobal Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT As far as international economic law (IEL) is concerned, the ‘Washington Consensus’ generally refers to the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund (IMF)'s development finance policies and tools. It covers their application to their clients and borrowers with the support of Western governments. This acceptation is of particular interest
Leïla Choukroune
wiley   +1 more source

A Structured Review of Research‐Informed Instructional Strategies to Support CPA Enabling Competencies in Future Accountants*

open access: yesAccounting Perspectives, Volume 24, Issue 1, Page 189-249, March 2025.
ABSTRACT CPA enabling competencies underpin the human skills and professional values that all future accountants should possess. Nevertheless, to date, the discourse is limited within the scholarship of teaching and learning on how to best inculcate these competencies in future accountants.
Sanobar Siddiqui
wiley   +1 more source

The informativeness of consolidated and parent‐only earnings to investors: Evidence from India

open access: yesContemporary Accounting Research, EarlyView.
Abstract We examine whether earnings from parent‐only financial statements are incrementally informative to those from consolidated financial statements. We use a unique mandate in India that requires firms to provide both consolidated and parent‐level financial statements, since currently neither US GAAP nor IFRS mandates this level of disaggregation.
Sudhakar V. Balachandran   +3 more
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

‘Standard KAMs’, ‘Canary KAMs’, and ‘Naughty KAMs’: A Typology of Key Audit Matters to Explain Their Value Relevance

open access: yesAbacus, EarlyView.
This paper develops a framework for understanding how key audit matters (KAMs) can be factored into investors’ risk assessments. Detailed interviews with seasoned investors representing international and regional asset managers and owners confirm that the number and type of reported KAMs are not ‘priced’ directly.
Warren Maroun   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Why Settle for the Status Quo? A Critical Assessment of Pension Liability Measurement Under IFRS and US GAAP

open access: yesAbacus, 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
wiley   +1 more source

Does Investors’ Information‐acquisition Ability Affect IPO Underpricing? Evidence from a Quasi‐natural Experiment

open access: yesAbacus, EarlyView.
Initial public offering (IPO) underpricing, driven by information asymmetry, is a prevalent and serious global phenomenon. In addition to the influence of information providers such as IPO firms, investors’ ability to acquire information may also significantly affect IPO underpricing.
Haipeng Yu   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

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