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Sharing the Wealth: The Effects of TCJA Bonuses on Employee Pay Satisfaction 财富共享:TCJA奖金对员工薪酬满意度的影响
Pub Date : 2020-12-22 DOI: 10.2139/ssrn.3753701
Michelle Hutchens, Dan Lynch, Bridget Stomberg
Approximately 60 public companies announced they would share cash windfalls from the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA) with rank-and-file employees through bonuses, higher wages, or increased benefits. We use employee survey data from Culture X to examine how the announcement of these TCJA bonuses affected employee pay satisfaction. Although employees are economically better off upon receiving these bonuses, prior literature suggests employee pay satisfaction could decrease if employees perceive the bonuses to be unfairly small. Using a difference-in-difference design, we find a greater decline in pay satisfaction among employees at firms announcing a TCJA bonus versus those that do not. Consistent with dissatisfaction about unfairly small bonuses, we document a larger decline in pay satisfaction at announcing firms with larger increases in CEO bonuses and larger share repurchases around the TCJA. Our results provide new insights into how workers respond to changes in compensation stemming from corporate tax savings.
大约60家上市公司宣布,他们将通过奖金、加薪或增加福利,与普通员工分享《减税与就业法案》(TCJA)带来的意外之财。我们使用来自文化X的员工调查数据来检验这些TCJA奖金的宣布如何影响员工的薪酬满意度。虽然员工在获得这些奖金后经济状况更好,但先前的文献表明,如果员工认为奖金少得不公平,员工的薪酬满意度可能会降低。使用差异设计,我们发现在宣布TCJA奖金的公司中,员工的薪酬满意度比那些没有宣布TCJA奖金的公司下降得更大。与对不公平的小额奖金的不满一致,我们记录了在TCJA周围,CEO奖金大幅增加和股票回购规模较大的公告公司,薪酬满意度下降幅度较大。我们的研究结果为员工如何应对公司税收节省带来的薪酬变化提供了新的见解。
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引用次数: 0
The Joint Effect of Task Properties Feedback and Goal-Contingent Pay on Performance 任务属性反馈与目标条件薪酬对绩效的共同影响
Pub Date : 2020-12-11 DOI: 10.2139/ssrn.3747121
Jeremy B. Lill, Alice Muncy
This study investigates how the distribution of task properties feedback interacts with goal-contingent pay in a complex task. We experimentally examine how task properties feedback with identical content influences performance when employees receive the feedback either evenly throughout a task or clustered at the beginning of the task, and whether goal-contingent pay moderates the effect. We predict and find that evenly distributed feedback produces higher performance when there is no goal-contingent pay. However, when goal-contingent pay is present, feedback distributed early yields higher performance. This study highlights the influence that goal-contingent pay can have on the effectiveness of task properties feedback.
本研究探讨了复杂任务中任务属性反馈分布与目标或有报酬的相互作用。我们通过实验研究了当员工在整个任务过程中均匀地或在任务开始时集中收到任务属性反馈时,具有相同内容的任务属性反馈如何影响绩效,以及目标相关薪酬是否会调节这种影响。我们预测并发现,当没有目标薪酬时,均匀分布的反馈会产生更高的绩效。然而,当目标薪酬存在时,早期分配的反馈会产生更高的绩效。本研究强调了目标条件薪酬对任务属性反馈有效性的影响。
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引用次数: 1
Controller Involvement in a Project Management Setting: Effects on Project Functions and Performance 项目管理环境中控制者的参与:对项目功能和绩效的影响
Pub Date : 2020-11-26 DOI: 10.2139/ssrn.3630994
Ricardo Malagueño, Jacobo Gomez-Conde, Yannick de Harlez, Olaf Hoffmann
PurposeThe authors examine the extent to which a controller's involvement in project functions (namely definition and scope, organization, constraints management and risk management) cascades down to project performance.Design/methodology/approachThe authors test the study’s framework using survey data from a sample of project leaders in German and Swiss firms. Responses were analyzed using the partial least squares (PLS) technique.FindingsThe authors find that controllers contribute to project success via the previously described project functions. Further, the study reveals the crucial role of controllers in managing uncertainty and project risks.Research limitations/implicationsAlthough the arguments used in this research were not country specific and suggest that the findings of this study also apply to the controller professional in general, this study clearly acknowledges that further research is needed to address the effects of this role in different jurisdictions given the specific characteristics of controllers acting in German-speaking countries.Practical implicationsThe authors provide insights on the role of controllers at an operational level, like project management, highlighting the need for controllers to support an effective project governance.Originality/valueThe authors add to the literature by examining the role of controllers in highly knowledge-intensive, highly pressured, task-driven, interdependent and dynamic operational settings, thus contributing to a better understanding of how controllers function at an operational level. The authors also strengthen a broader role of controllers in project management that goes beyond their historical controlling activities to include more modern functions, extending previous studies analyzing their professional identity.
作者考察了控制者参与项目职能(即定义和范围、组织、约束管理和风险管理)对项目绩效的影响程度。设计/方法/方法作者使用来自德国和瑞士公司项目负责人样本的调查数据来测试研究的框架。使用偏最小二乘(PLS)技术分析响应。研究结果作者发现控制者通过前面描述的项目功能对项目的成功做出了贡献。进一步,研究揭示了控制者在管理不确定性和项目风险中的关键作用。虽然本研究中使用的论点不是针对具体国家的,并且表明本研究的结果也适用于一般的管制员专业人员,但本研究清楚地承认,考虑到在德语国家管制员的具体特征,需要进一步的研究来解决这一角色在不同司法管辖区的影响。实际意义作者提供了在操作层面上控制器角色的见解,比如项目管理,强调了控制器支持有效项目治理的必要性。原创性/价值作者通过检查控制器在高度知识密集型,高压,任务驱动,相互依赖和动态操作设置中的作用来增加文献,从而有助于更好地理解控制器在操作层面上的功能。作者还加强了控制者在项目管理中的更广泛的作用,超越了他们的历史控制活动,包括更多的现代功能,扩展了先前分析他们职业身份的研究。
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引用次数: 5
Does Debt Intensity Have an Impact on Cost Behavior? Evidence from Japan 债务强度对成本行为有影响吗?来自日本的证据
Pub Date : 2020-11-20 DOI: 10.2139/ssrn.3734486
D. Kato, Sho Hayakawa, Jumpei Hamamura
According to earlier studies, debt intensity affects cost behavior because managers have an obligation to pay interest. However, debt intensity entails additional effects on cost behavior because managers must pay the debt even if they manipulate costs to avoid bankruptcy. Given this perspective, paying long-term debt is not as urgent as discharging current liabilities. Therefore, long-term debt and current liabilities are expected to have different effects on asymmetric cost behavior through managers’ repayment decision-making. We examine this issue using data for Japan, which shows that current liabilities have a greater effect on selling, general, and administrative expense (SG&A) cost behavior than long-term debt and total debt do. Because current liabilities induce managers to pay the debt quickly, they manage cash by manipulating costs. A drastic decrease in the manipulated cost will result in an anti-sticky cost. Recognizing the effects of current liabilities on anti-stickiness is important. Our results suggest that the debt type is important when analyzing cost stickiness.
根据早期的研究,债务强度影响成本行为,因为管理者有支付利息的义务。然而,债务强度会对成本行为产生额外的影响,因为管理者必须支付债务,即使他们操纵成本以避免破产。从这个角度来看,偿还长期债务并不像清偿流动负债那么紧迫。因此,长期负债和流动负债会通过管理者的还款决策对不对称成本行为产生不同的影响。我们使用日本的数据来检验这个问题,该数据表明,流动负债对销售、一般和管理费用(SG&A)成本行为的影响大于长期债务和总债务。由于流动负债促使管理者迅速偿还债务,他们通过操纵成本来管理现金。操纵成本的急剧下降将导致抗粘成本。认识到流动负债对抗粘性的影响是很重要的。我们的研究结果表明,在分析成本粘性时,债务类型很重要。
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引用次数: 1
The Persistence and Valuation Effects of Classification Shifting 分类转移的持续性与估值效应
Pub Date : 2020-11-02 DOI: 10.2139/ssrn.3384962
G. Lattanzio, W. Thomas
Classification shifting is defined in the literature as managers’ intentional classification of certain core expenses as income-decreasing special items with the intent to inflate reported core performance. We develop and validate a new measure of firms’ propensity to engage in this reporting strategy, documenting that a firm’s use of classification shifting is persistent over time and relates to its use by peer firms. We also find that the cross-sectional variation in firms’ use of classification shifting is increasing in more recent years and that this strategy is associated with higher future firm valuation and stock returns. As one possible channel through which this valuation effect orginates, we hypothesize and find evidence consistent with classification shifting allowing firms to increase their debt capacity, thereby shifting risks from shareholders to debtholders.
分类转移在文献中被定义为管理者故意将某些核心费用分类为减少收入的特殊项目,意图夸大报告的核心绩效。我们开发并验证了一种新的衡量公司参与这种报告策略的倾向的方法,记录了公司对分类转换的使用随着时间的推移是持续的,并且与同行公司的使用有关。我们还发现,近年来,公司使用分类转换的横截面变化正在增加,这种策略与更高的未来公司估值和股票回报有关。作为这种估值效应产生的一个可能渠道,我们假设并发现了与分类转移相一致的证据,这种转移允许公司增加其债务能力,从而将风险从股东转移到债权人。
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引用次数: 6
Making Sense of Cost-Consciousness in Social Work 理解社会工作中的成本意识
Pub Date : 2020-10-29 DOI: 10.2139/ssrn.3721062
P. N. Bukh, K. S. Christensen, Anne Kirstine Svanholt
PurposeThis paper aims to explore how the introduction of new accounting information influences the understandings of cost-consciousness. Furthermore, the paper explores how managers use accounting information to shape organizational members’ understanding of changes, and how focusing on cost-consciousness influence professional culture within social services.Design/methodology/approachThe paper is based on a case study, drawing on sensemaking as a theoretical lens. Top management, middle management and staff specialists at a medium-sized Danish municipality are interviewed.FindingsThe paper demonstrates how accounting metaphors can be effective in linking cost information and cost-consciousness to operational decisions in daily work practices. Further, the study elucidates how professionalism may be strengthened based on the use of accounting information.Research limitations/implicationsThe study is context specific, and the role of accounting in professional work varies on the basis of the specific techniques involved.Practical implicationsThe paper shows how managers influence how professionals interpret and use accounting information. It shows how cost-consciousness can be integrated with social work practices to improve service quality.Originality/valueThe paper contributes to the literature on how accounting information influences social work. To date, only a few papers have focused on how cost-consciousness can be understood in practice and how it influences professional culture. Further, the study expands the limited accounting metaphor research.
目的本文旨在探讨新的会计信息的引入如何影响成本意识的理解。此外,本文探讨了管理者如何使用会计信息来塑造组织成员对变化的理解,以及关注成本意识如何影响社会服务中的专业文化。设计/方法/方法本文以一个案例研究为基础,以语义构建为理论视角。本文采访了丹麦一个中型城市的高层管理人员、中层管理人员和专业人员。本文论证了会计隐喻如何有效地将成本信息和成本意识与日常工作实践中的运营决策联系起来。此外,该研究阐明了如何在会计信息的使用基础上加强专业精神。研究的局限性/启示本研究是根据具体情况而定的,会计在专业工作中的作用因所涉及的具体技术而异。实际意义本文展示了管理者如何影响专业人士如何解释和使用会计信息。它展示了如何将成本意识与社会工作实践相结合,以提高服务质量。原创性/价值本文对会计信息如何影响社会工作的文献做出了贡献。迄今为止,只有少数论文关注的是如何在实践中理解成本意识以及它如何影响专业文化。进一步拓展了有限的会计隐喻研究。
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引用次数: 5
How Social Norms and Social Identification Constrain Aggressive Reporting Behavior 社会规范和社会认同如何约束攻击性报告行为
Pub Date : 2020-10-12 DOI: 10.2139/ssrn.3722047
Donald Young
This study examines how the source and nature of reporting standards jointly influence compliance with those standards. More specifically, I examine how decision makers' identification with the source of the standards moderates compliance with different types of standards. Type refers to whether the accounting standard is descriptive or injunctive (i.e., prescriptive). Source refers to the entity promulgating the accounting standards. I conduct three experiments in which participants face a direct trade-off between reporting aggressively to maximize their personal wealth and reporting conservatively to adhere to a standard. I find that identification with the source causes less aggressive reporting for an injunctive standard, but when a standard is descriptive, identification has no effect or an opposite effect. When identification with the source is low, descriptive standards tend to work well compared to injunctive standards. With injunctive standards, persuasive factors, such as identification, likely influence financial managers' aggressive reporting behavior.
本研究探讨报告准则的来源和性质如何共同影响对这些准则的遵守。更具体地说,我研究了决策者对标准来源的认同如何缓和对不同类型标准的遵从。类型是指会计准则是描述性的还是强制性的(即规定性的)。来源是指颁布会计准则的主体。我进行了三个实验,在这些实验中,参与者面临着一种直接的权衡:是积极地报道以最大化他们的个人财富,还是保守地报道以遵守标准。我发现,对来源的认同会导致对禁令标准的不那么激进的报道,但当标准是描述性的时,认同没有效果或相反的效果。当对来源的认同较低时,描述性标准往往比禁令性标准更有效。在禁令标准下,有说服力的因素,如认同,可能会影响财务经理的激进报告行为。
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引用次数: 4
The Editor's Problem 编辑的问题
Pub Date : 2020-10-12 DOI: 10.2139/ssrn.3710261
J. Bertomeu
An editor maximizing quality relies on the qualitative recommendation of a reviewer. The reviewer may be biased to accept or reject independently of quality. Using the minimum principle, an averaging rule is found to best reduce the noise introduced by bias: under this rule, an unbiased reviewer accepts when quality is greater than the average quality selected by the editor. For distributions with heavy tails, the probability of acceptance due to bias is bounded away from zero even if almost all reviewers are unbiased. Standards adopted by the editor may be excessive relative to the social optimum. Environments with multiple reviewers, reviewer histories, detailed reviews and competition between editors do not solve the problem and may worsen it. A dynamic peer review demonstrates the inherent fragility of equilibria with informative reviews. The model applies to many settings, including grant review, evidence selection, medical testing, juries and project selection.
编辑最大限度地提高质量依赖于审稿人的定性推荐。审稿人可能会有接受或拒绝独立于质量的偏见。使用最小原则,发现平均规则可以最好地减少偏见带来的噪音:在此规则下,当质量大于编辑选择的平均质量时,无偏见的审稿人会接受。对于具有重尾的分布,即使几乎所有的审稿人都是无偏的,由于偏差而被接受的概率也会在零附近有界。编辑所采用的标准相对于社会最优可能是过分的。有多个审稿人、审稿人历史、详细的审稿和编辑之间的竞争的环境并不能解决问题,反而可能使问题恶化。动态同行评议通过信息性评议证明了均衡的内在脆弱性。该模型适用于许多情况,包括拨款审查、证据选择、医学测试、陪审团和项目选择。
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引用次数: 0
In the Nick of Time: Performance-Based Compensation and Proactive Responses to the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act 关键时刻:基于绩效的薪酬和对减税和就业法案的积极回应
Pub Date : 2020-09-09 DOI: 10.2139/ssrn.3689852
Jonathan Durrant, James Jianxin Gong, J. Howard
The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017 (TCJA) introduced two major changes that may influence executive compensation: (1) reducing corporate tax rates from 35 to 21 percent and (2) eliminating the performance-based pay exception in Section 162(m). These changes provide incentives to maximize deductible compensation expense in 2017, before the TCJA goes into effect. Consistent with our expectation, we find that the increase in CEO bonus and stock option compensation is significantly greater in 2017 relative to prior years. Our difference-in-difference results are consistent with the tax rate reduction driving the bonus increase and the repeal of the performance-based exception leading to the increase in CEO stock options. The TCJA also changed the definition of covered employees to include the CFO. We find weak evidence for abnormal increases in CFO performance-based compensation. Overall, our findings suggest that firms' responded to the TCJA in the period before it was effective.
《2017年减税和就业法案》(TCJA)引入了两项可能影响高管薪酬的重大变化:(1)将公司税率从35%降至21%;(2)取消第162(m)条中基于绩效的薪酬例外。在TCJA生效之前的2017年,这些变化为最大限度地提高可扣除的补偿费用提供了激励。与我们的预期一致,我们发现2017年CEO奖金和股票期权薪酬的增幅明显大于前几年。我们的差异中的差异结果与税率降低导致奖金增加和废除基于绩效的例外导致CEO股票期权增加是一致的。TCJA还更改了涵盖雇员的定义,将CFO包括在内。我们发现财务总监基于绩效的薪酬异常增加的证据不足。总体而言,我们的研究结果表明,企业在TCJA生效前的一段时间对其做出了反应。
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引用次数: 10
Research on the Use of Financial Statement Information for Forecasting Profitability 利用财务报表信息预测盈利能力的研究
Pub Date : 2020-09-01 DOI: 10.1111/acfi.12394
T. Yohn
Research on the use of financial statement information for forecasting profitability has two objectives: (i) to generate improved forecasts of profitability and accurate estimates of firm value; and (ii) to identify market inefficiencies with respect to financial statement information. For these areas of research, this article describes the evolution, provides examples and shares implications of the research. It also discusses opportunities for future research. The article highlights that financial statement analysis research has slowly evolved and has received limited attention from academics. The article argues that there are vast opportunities for impactful research on fundamental analysis and market inefficiencies.
利用财务报表信息预测盈利能力的研究有两个目标:(i)改进盈利能力的预测和对公司价值的准确估计;(ii)识别与财务报表信息相关的市场无效。对于这些领域的研究,本文描述了研究的演变,提供了实例,并分享了研究的启示。它还讨论了未来研究的机会。本文强调,财务报表分析研究发展缓慢,受到学术界的关注有限。这篇文章认为,对基本面分析和市场效率低下进行有影响力的研究有很大的机会。
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