ABSTRACT: This paper presents a model that illustrates the enablers of corruption, and delineates how eGovernance, based on the principles of transparency and accountability, can dismantle the enablers of corruption. Key enablers of corruption, such as economic rents, discretionary power of bureaucrats, and weak institutions, are identified from the extant literature to argue that these enablers undermine the public interest through unequal access to basic goods and services. The critical role of accounting and accounting information systems is highlighted by examining selected eGovernance initiatives that enhance transparency and accountability in dismantling corruption. Reduction of the discretionary power of bureaucrats, enforced consequences, and the demand for accountability enables equal access to information and public goods and services that could result in a bridging of the economic divide in a developing country such as India. Hence, a case study of India is utilized to analyze and assess the su...
{"title":"The Role of eGovernance in Mitigating Corruption","authors":"J. Mistry","doi":"10.2308/APIN-10287","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2308/APIN-10287","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT: This paper presents a model that illustrates the enablers of corruption, and delineates how eGovernance, based on the principles of transparency and accountability, can dismantle the enablers of corruption. Key enablers of corruption, such as economic rents, discretionary power of bureaucrats, and weak institutions, are identified from the extant literature to argue that these enablers undermine the public interest through unequal access to basic goods and services. The critical role of accounting and accounting information systems is highlighted by examining selected eGovernance initiatives that enhance transparency and accountability in dismantling corruption. Reduction of the discretionary power of bureaucrats, enforced consequences, and the demand for accountability enables equal access to information and public goods and services that could result in a bridging of the economic divide in a developing country such as India. Hence, a case study of India is utilized to analyze and assess the su...","PeriodicalId":38883,"journal":{"name":"Accounting and the Public Interest","volume":"12 1","pages":"137-159"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.2308/APIN-10287","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"68953390","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
ABSTRACT: Using surveys for the 2008, 2009 and 2011 federal tax rebates, this study tests whether taxpayers (1) noticed the rebates, and (2) spent, rather than saved, a high percentage of each. Results add further evidence that behavioral economics and mental accounting are relevant in predicting tax rebate behavior. It also indicates that rebates distributed in small amounts in take-home pay accomplish stimulus much more effectively than a lump sum, which is critically important for effective public policy. Many taxpayers did not realize they received the 2009 tax rebate, and those who knew spent a higher average percentage than for the 2008 rebate. The results also indicate the need to control for (shifting) savings heuristics during an economic crisis, because this heuristic apparently did change on a national scale. The national economic crisis—particularly unemployment—was smaller and slower to hit the city sampled in this study than for the nation as a whole. The results with the smaller, localized ...
{"title":"National Heuristic Shift toward Saving Any Form of Tax Rebate","authors":"Marilyn K. Spencer, Valrie Chambers","doi":"10.2308/APIN-10288","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2308/APIN-10288","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT: Using surveys for the 2008, 2009 and 2011 federal tax rebates, this study tests whether taxpayers (1) noticed the rebates, and (2) spent, rather than saved, a high percentage of each. Results add further evidence that behavioral economics and mental accounting are relevant in predicting tax rebate behavior. It also indicates that rebates distributed in small amounts in take-home pay accomplish stimulus much more effectively than a lump sum, which is critically important for effective public policy. Many taxpayers did not realize they received the 2009 tax rebate, and those who knew spent a higher average percentage than for the 2008 rebate. The results also indicate the need to control for (shifting) savings heuristics during an economic crisis, because this heuristic apparently did change on a national scale. The national economic crisis—particularly unemployment—was smaller and slower to hit the city sampled in this study than for the nation as a whole. The results with the smaller, localized ...","PeriodicalId":38883,"journal":{"name":"Accounting and the Public Interest","volume":"12 1","pages":"106-136"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.2308/APIN-10288","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"68953466","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Kathryn J. Jervis, Gerson M. Goldberg, Alan C. Cutting
ABSTRACT: To decide where to open and close hospitals in the U.S., our society considers community needs for access to health care. Yet a hospital's choice of location is often a financial decision. We examine the conflict between concerns about access to care and financial considerations that occurred in one not-for-profit (NFP) hospital system that closed hospitals in poor, minority neighborhoods to open new hospitals in affluent suburban communities. A small-sample, empirical study shows that hospitals in this particular system were significantly more likely to close in areas with a high minority population and sicker patients. In a case study, we explain that the hospital offered reasons for relocation based on its NFP status, to better meet community needs and provide lower costs of care. In the end, the relocation proved to be a positive financial decision for the NFP system. Data Availability: Data are available upon request.
{"title":"Rights, Needs, and Equality of Opportunity for Health Care: A Financial Analysis of Morality","authors":"Kathryn J. Jervis, Gerson M. Goldberg, Alan C. Cutting","doi":"10.2308/APIN-10235","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2308/APIN-10235","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT: To decide where to open and close hospitals in the U.S., our society considers community needs for access to health care. Yet a hospital's choice of location is often a financial decision. We examine the conflict between concerns about access to care and financial considerations that occurred in one not-for-profit (NFP) hospital system that closed hospitals in poor, minority neighborhoods to open new hospitals in affluent suburban communities. A small-sample, empirical study shows that hospitals in this particular system were significantly more likely to close in areas with a high minority population and sicker patients. In a case study, we explain that the hospital offered reasons for relocation based on its NFP status, to better meet community needs and provide lower costs of care. In the end, the relocation proved to be a positive financial decision for the NFP system. Data Availability: Data are available upon request.","PeriodicalId":38883,"journal":{"name":"Accounting and the Public Interest","volume":"12 1","pages":"62-86"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-06-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.2308/APIN-10235","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"68953683","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Charles H. Cho, Giovanna Michelon, Dennis M. Patten
ABSTRACT: The purpose of this paper is to investigate whether firms use graphs in their sustainability reports in order to present a more favorable view of their social and environmental performance. Further, because prior research indicates that companies use social and environmental disclosure as a tool to reduce their exposure to social and political pressures (the legitimacy argument), we also examine whether differences in the extent of impression management are associated with differences in social and environmental performance. Based on an analysis of graphs in sustainability reports for a sample of 77 U.S. companies for 2006, we find considerable evidence of favorable selectivity bias in the choice of items graphed, and moderate evidence that where distortion in graphing occurs, it also has a favorable bias. Our results regarding the relation between impression management and performance are mixed. Whereas we find that graphs of social items in sustainability reports for companies with worse socia...
{"title":"Impression Management in Sustainability Reports: An Empirical Investigation of the Use of Graphs","authors":"Charles H. Cho, Giovanna Michelon, Dennis M. Patten","doi":"10.2308/APIN-10249","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2308/APIN-10249","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT: The purpose of this paper is to investigate whether firms use graphs in their sustainability reports in order to present a more favorable view of their social and environmental performance. Further, because prior research indicates that companies use social and environmental disclosure as a tool to reduce their exposure to social and political pressures (the legitimacy argument), we also examine whether differences in the extent of impression management are associated with differences in social and environmental performance. Based on an analysis of graphs in sustainability reports for a sample of 77 U.S. companies for 2006, we find considerable evidence of favorable selectivity bias in the choice of items graphed, and moderate evidence that where distortion in graphing occurs, it also has a favorable bias. Our results regarding the relation between impression management and performance are mixed. Whereas we find that graphs of social items in sustainability reports for companies with worse socia...","PeriodicalId":38883,"journal":{"name":"Accounting and the Public Interest","volume":"75 1","pages":"16-37"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-06-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.2308/APIN-10249","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"68953735","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
ABSTRACT: Although in many countries government auditors are appointed, often in an all-party process designed to emphasize a preference and hope for accounting information to be prepared in an independent manner, many such office holders in U.S. state governments are directly elected. This paper examines one such election, which occurred in the State of Ohio in 1994, and uses this case to explore how the electoral process fosters an interaction between the professional claim and political platforms. The paper follows earlier work concerning “special” government audits in using Weber's discussion of formal and substantive rationality to interpret events. The election of government auditors is seen as providing an unusual opportunity to consider the mixture of auditing and politics. The paper provides observations on the proximate operation of professional claims and political dynamics, and discusses these in terms of the roles of government auditing and of accountancy as a profession. Further research is...
{"title":"The Election of Auditors in Government: A Study of Politics and the Professional","authors":"Vaughan S. Radcliffe","doi":"10.2308/APIN-10269","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2308/APIN-10269","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT: Although in many countries government auditors are appointed, often in an all-party process designed to emphasize a preference and hope for accounting information to be prepared in an independent manner, many such office holders in U.S. state governments are directly elected. This paper examines one such election, which occurred in the State of Ohio in 1994, and uses this case to explore how the electoral process fosters an interaction between the professional claim and political platforms. The paper follows earlier work concerning “special” government audits in using Weber's discussion of formal and substantive rationality to interpret events. The election of government auditors is seen as providing an unusual opportunity to consider the mixture of auditing and politics. The paper provides observations on the proximate operation of professional claims and political dynamics, and discusses these in terms of the roles of government auditing and of accountancy as a profession. Further research is...","PeriodicalId":38883,"journal":{"name":"Accounting and the Public Interest","volume":"12 1","pages":"38-61"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-06-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.2308/APIN-10269","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"68953823","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
ABSTRACT The events surrounding the passage of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 (Sarbanes) offer an opportunity to reflect on the influences of public pressure and possible public policy shifts on CSR behavior in a capital market experiencing excessive moral debt. Using the passage of Sarbanes to symbolize a potential public policy shift driven by public pressure, we examine the influence of social legitimacy variables on corporate social responsibility (CSR) behavior before (1991–2001) and after (2002–2005) the passage of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002. We posit that changes in CSR strategies surrounding the passage of Sarbanes were used to maximize stakeholder interests by addressing social legitimacy involving corporate accountability issues. Our findings support that CSR behaviors were significantly influenced by the public pressure variables of Sarbanes and company size, but were not significantly influenced by our economic legitimacy control measures, with the exception of a positive significant inter...
围绕2002年萨班斯-奥克斯利法案(Sarbanes - oxley Act of 2002)通过的事件提供了一个机会来反思在经历过度道德债务的资本市场中，公众压力和可能的公共政策转变对企业社会责任行为的影响。本文以萨班斯法案的通过为例，考察了社会合法性变量对企业社会责任行为的影响。在萨班斯法案通过之前(1991-2001年)和之后(2002 - 2005年)，企业社会责任行为受到了公众压力的驱动。我们假设，围绕萨班斯法案的通过，企业社会责任战略的变化被用来通过解决涉及企业责任问题的社会合法性来最大化利益相关者的利益。我们的研究结果表明，企业社会责任行为受到萨班斯法案和公司规模这两个公众压力变量的显著影响，而经济合法性控制措施对企业社会责任行为的影响不显著。
{"title":"The Effects of Public Pressure on CSR Behavior in a Capital Market Experiencing Excessive Moral Debt","authors":"Pamela B. Roush, Lois S. Mahoney, L. Thorne","doi":"10.2308/APIN-10233","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2308/APIN-10233","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT The events surrounding the passage of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 (Sarbanes) offer an opportunity to reflect on the influences of public pressure and possible public policy shifts on CSR behavior in a capital market experiencing excessive moral debt. Using the passage of Sarbanes to symbolize a potential public policy shift driven by public pressure, we examine the influence of social legitimacy variables on corporate social responsibility (CSR) behavior before (1991–2001) and after (2002–2005) the passage of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002. We posit that changes in CSR strategies surrounding the passage of Sarbanes were used to maximize stakeholder interests by addressing social legitimacy involving corporate accountability issues. Our findings support that CSR behaviors were significantly influenced by the public pressure variables of Sarbanes and company size, but were not significantly influenced by our economic legitimacy control measures, with the exception of a positive significant inter...","PeriodicalId":38883,"journal":{"name":"Accounting and the Public Interest","volume":"12 1","pages":"87-105"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-06-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.2308/APIN-10233","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"68953662","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
ABSTRACT This study empirically examines the public policy implications of mandatory audit firm rotation in the context of the relation between auditor tenure and the market's perception of discretionary accruals quality in the pre- and post-SOX periods. Consistent with prior research, the pre-SOX results support the effects of auditor learning and auditor closeness on the relation between auditor tenure and audit quality. We further demonstrate that in the post-SOX period, there is no significant relation between auditor tenure and the pricing of discretionary accruals. The post-SOX results indicate that the market's perception of auditor tenure as a significant determinant of audit quality may have diminished in the environment of increased regulation under SOX. The findings further imply that ongoing consideration of a policy that mandates periodic audit firm rotation may no longer be essential with the passage of SOX. Data Availability: Data used in this study were obtained from publicly available sou...
{"title":"Auditor Tenure and the Pricing of Discretionary Accruals in the Post-SOX Era","authors":"David S. Jenkins, Uma Velury","doi":"10.2308/APIN-10204","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2308/APIN-10204","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This study empirically examines the public policy implications of mandatory audit firm rotation in the context of the relation between auditor tenure and the market's perception of discretionary accruals quality in the pre- and post-SOX periods. Consistent with prior research, the pre-SOX results support the effects of auditor learning and auditor closeness on the relation between auditor tenure and audit quality. We further demonstrate that in the post-SOX period, there is no significant relation between auditor tenure and the pricing of discretionary accruals. The post-SOX results indicate that the market's perception of auditor tenure as a significant determinant of audit quality may have diminished in the environment of increased regulation under SOX. The findings further imply that ongoing consideration of a policy that mandates periodic audit firm rotation may no longer be essential with the passage of SOX. Data Availability: Data used in this study were obtained from publicly available sou...","PeriodicalId":38883,"journal":{"name":"Accounting and the Public Interest","volume":"12 1","pages":"1-15"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-03-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.2308/APIN-10204","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"68953619","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
ABSTRACT Purpose—The purpose of this paper is to analyze the classical decision making model as applied to restructuring a Department on Aging services for the State of Connecticut. Mandated by the Connecticut legislature in 2007 to reestablish the department, the Department of Social Services (DSS) commissioned Southern Connecticut State University to recommend a structure for the newly legislated department, which had been disbanded by then-Governor Lowell Weicker in 1993. Design/Methodology/Approach—Qualitative interviews of relevant stakeholders at all levels revealed that while few were satisfied by the current structure of the Department on Aging, there was no consensus concerning the design of a more effective replacement, only deeply held differences. Through the collection and analysis of both qualitative and quantitative data, the decision process on how to best structure aging services becomes hostage to a contingency where this decision model breaks down. The search stage develops a set of alt...
{"title":"Accounting Analysis Restores Decision Making Rationality: The Case of the Connecticut Department on Aging","authors":"J. Phillips, R. Page","doi":"10.2308/APIN-10121","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2308/APIN-10121","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Purpose—The purpose of this paper is to analyze the classical decision making model as applied to restructuring a Department on Aging services for the State of Connecticut. Mandated by the Connecticut legislature in 2007 to reestablish the department, the Department of Social Services (DSS) commissioned Southern Connecticut State University to recommend a structure for the newly legislated department, which had been disbanded by then-Governor Lowell Weicker in 1993. Design/Methodology/Approach—Qualitative interviews of relevant stakeholders at all levels revealed that while few were satisfied by the current structure of the Department on Aging, there was no consensus concerning the design of a more effective replacement, only deeply held differences. Through the collection and analysis of both qualitative and quantitative data, the decision process on how to best structure aging services becomes hostage to a contingency where this decision model breaks down. The search stage develops a set of alt...","PeriodicalId":38883,"journal":{"name":"Accounting and the Public Interest","volume":"11 1","pages":"96-115"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-12-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"68953445","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
ABSTRACT The control of important outcomes in academic accounting by the faculties of a small set of elite institutions has been well documented through a series of outcomes. Less is known about the processes by which this is sustained over time. This paper considers the advice provided to young scholars as one means whereby the social hierarchy is reproduced. Eight specific mechanisms are analyzed and found to bolster belief in the objective meritocracy of ideas in the discipline. Building upon the faux advice provided by Nathanael West's fictional Miss Lonelyhearts, the paper concludes that the stabilizing point embedded in the system is the necessity of people's acceptance of their own inadequacy.
{"title":"The Social Construction of Research Advice: The American Accounting Association Plays Miss Lonelyhearts","authors":"T. Fogarty","doi":"10.2308/APIN-10072","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2308/APIN-10072","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT The control of important outcomes in academic accounting by the faculties of a small set of elite institutions has been well documented through a series of outcomes. Less is known about the processes by which this is sustained over time. This paper considers the advice provided to young scholars as one means whereby the social hierarchy is reproduced. Eight specific mechanisms are analyzed and found to bolster belief in the objective meritocracy of ideas in the discipline. Building upon the faux advice provided by Nathanael West's fictional Miss Lonelyhearts, the paper concludes that the stabilizing point embedded in the system is the necessity of people's acceptance of their own inadequacy.","PeriodicalId":38883,"journal":{"name":"Accounting and the Public Interest","volume":"11 1","pages":"32-51"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-12-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.2308/APIN-10072","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"68953028","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Royce D. Burnett, Christopher J. Skousen, C. Wright
ABSTRACT Achieving corporate sustainability requires the implementation of management practices that create long-term shareholder value by embracing opportunities and managing risks deriving from economic, environmental, and social developments. Corporations that are sustainable create value that, in the long run, exceeds their environmental impact (Figge and Hahn 2004). We examine the extent to which investors incrementally value the long-run benefits accruing from adoption of eco-effective management. We posit that adoption of eco-effective management results in increases in firms' market valuation, and that those increases persist beyond the current accounting period. Our results support this hypothesis. This study has broad public policy implications as accountants, managers, and government policymakers shift their focus toward sustainability and rely on market-based mechanisms to further environmental goals. Data Availability: All data are available from public sources.
实现企业可持续发展需要实施管理实践，通过拥抱机遇和管理来自经济、环境和社会发展的风险，创造长期股东价值。从长远来看，可持续发展的公司创造的价值超过了它们对环境的影响(Figge and Hahn 2004)。我们考察了投资者对采用生态有效管理所产生的长期效益的增量价值的程度。我们假设采用生态有效管理导致公司市场估值的增加，并且这些增加持续到当前会计期间之后。我们的研究结果支持这一假设。这项研究具有广泛的公共政策意义，因为会计、管理人员和政府决策者将重点转向可持续性，并依靠市场机制来实现进一步的环境目标。数据可用性:所有数据均可从公共来源获得。
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