Pub Date : 2021-04-16DOI: 10.1142/S1094406021800068
S. Radhakrishnan, S. Janakiraman
We provide a framework that builds upon the findings of Chaney, Lodh and Nandy (2021) for future research to examine the mechanism through which national culture is related to earnings management. In particular, the framework can be used to examine how specific contexts, reference points, corporate culture and economic institutions affect the relation between national culture and earnings management.
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Pub Date : 2021-03-31DOI: 10.1142/S109440602180007X
Paul Chaney, S. Lodh, M. Nandy
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Pub Date : 2021-03-24DOI: 10.1142/S1094406021800044
D. Hay
The paper on mandatory nonfinancial risk disclosures and the effect of auditor characteristics examines a topical issue and finds unexpected results. It finds that there is no overall Big 4 effect, but that some of the Big 4 audit firms are associated with a higher quality of risk disclosure. Audit partners with wider experience, and female auditors, are associated with better risk disclosure. I review the paper, applying a predictive validity model. I suggest areas where research on this issue could be further developed.
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Pub Date : 2021-03-01DOI: 10.1142/s1094406021500049
Orleans Silva Martins, L. Barros
Using standard proxies for accounting quality, with a focus on earnings persistence and earnings management, we examine how the association between firm-level informativeness and accounting quality varies according to the quality of the country-level information environment. Our sample comprises over 15,000 publicly traded firms from 21 countries included in the Morgan Stanley Capital International (MSCI) Emerging Markets Index, between the years 2000 and 2016. Using novel proxies that aggregate several firm- or country-level characteristics associated with lower information asymmetry or higher-quality information environment, we find that in emerging markets with weaker information environments, the positive association between firm-level informativeness and accounting quality is more pronounced, suggesting that greater firm-level informativeness may partially compensate for weaker country-level institutions. Consistent with the substitution effect, we also document that the positive association between firm-level informativeness and stock market performance is greater in emerging countries with weaker information environments.
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Pub Date : 2021-01-23DOI: 10.1142/S1094406021800020
Minyue Dong
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Pub Date : 2021-01-20DOI: 10.1142/s1094406021800032
Noah P. Barsky
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Pub Date : 2021-01-08DOI: 10.1142/S1094406021800019
Ruth V. Aguilera, Kurt A. Desender, Mónica López-Puertas Lamy
This paper draws on the articles in the Forum on Corporate Governance to discuss how corporate governance and accounting research complement each other well in explaining how companies are governed...
本文借鉴《公司治理论坛》上的文章,探讨公司治理与会计研究如何在解释公司治理方面相辅相成。
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Pub Date : 2020-12-24DOI: 10.1142/s1094406022800014
C. Nobes
Elsewhere in this issue, Song and Trimble (in press; hereafter ST) present proposals for a method of classifying jurisdictions by the degree to which they have adopted IFRS. ST apply the method to many jurisdictions over 30 years. This classification can be useful to both qualitative and quantitative researchers. As ST suggest, the classification will need to be kept up to date. In that context, this commissioned paper discusses possible enhancements to their method. I suggest that ST’s tables are too ambitious in trying to cover six dimensions: country, year, type of GAAP, range of firms covered, whether the GAAP is required or merely permitted, and the degree of compliance by firms. I would reduce ST’s 13 IFRS statuses to five types of GAAP.
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Pub Date : 2020-12-16DOI: 10.1142/s1094406022500019
Xiaoxiao Song, Madeline Trimble
The number of countries that have adopted International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) in some form has grown each year. However, the existing literature generally ignores the varied types and the complex timing of IFRS adoption. Our paper provides a cross-reference of IFRS adoption dates and types for 195 countries and territories around the world. This definitive data, including an extensive online dataset, was developed to help researchers better identify IFRS adoption events in the samples used in their empirical studies. Additionally, we highlight potential challenges in identifying IFRS adoption types and dates as well as provide areas of future research that can benefit from our dataset, which can be accessed online https://about.illinoisstate.edu/mktrimb/song-trimble-2022-dataset/ .
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Pub Date : 2020-12-01DOI: 10.1142/s1094406020990012
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