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Firm-Value Effects of Carbon Emissions and Carbon Disclosures Evidence from Taiwan 碳排放的固定价值效应与台湾碳披露证据
IF 2.5 4区 管理学 Q2 Business, Management and Accounting Pub Date : 2022-07-19 DOI: 10.2308/horizons-18-164r
Yan Han, H. Huang, Wu-Po Liu, Yu-Lin Hsu
Extant accounting research based on data from the U.S., Europe, and Australia finds that increases in carbon emissions are associated with lower firm value. However, recent research indicates that investors' perspectives on corporate social responsibility (CSR) in other parts of the world differ from those of Western investors. This study investigates whether increases in carbon emissions, as one indicator of poor CSR performance, are also associated with lower firm value in Taiwan. Using carbon disclosure data from Taiwanese listed companies between 2012 and 2016, we find that firm value is positively associated with carbon emissions, which contrasts with the findings of extant research. Likewise, firm value is not associated with a combined measure of financial information and carbon emissions in Taiwan. Our findings suggest that international generalizations of the findings of the extant research on the relationship between carbon emissions and firm value should be undertaken with caution.
基于美国、欧洲和澳大利亚数据的外部会计研究发现,碳排放量的增加与公司价值的降低有关。然而,最近的研究表明,世界其他地区的投资者对企业社会责任的看法与西方投资者不同。本研究调查了碳排放量的增加,作为企业社会责任绩效不佳的一个指标,是否也与台湾企业价值的降低有关。利用2012年至2016年台湾上市公司的碳披露数据,我们发现公司价值与碳排放呈正相关,这与现有研究结果形成了对比。同样,企业价值与台湾的财务信息和碳排放量的综合衡量并不相关。我们的研究结果表明,对现有碳排放与企业价值之间关系的研究结果进行国际推广时应谨慎。
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引用次数: 3
CEO Narcissism and Properties of Analysts’ Forecasts CEO自恋与分析师预测的性质
IF 2.5 4区 管理学 Q2 Business, Management and Accounting Pub Date : 2022-07-19 DOI: 10.2308/horizons-2021-010
Gilberto Marquez Illescas, Linying Zhou
Using a sample of S&P 500 companies, this study constructs a measure of CEO narcissism and examines whether and how it impacts the accuracy and dispersion of analysts’ forecasts. Empirical evidence suggests that firms with narcissistic CEOs have higher accuracy and lower dispersion of such forecasts. In investigating the mechanism through which CEO narcissism impacts these properties, we find that firms with narcissistic CEOs are more likely to issue management earnings guidance, albeit less accurate, which results in significant differences in accuracy and dispersion of analysts’ forecasts. This study concludes that through more management voluntary disclosure, CEO narcissism has a positive impact on the accuracy and negative impact on the dispersion of financial analysts’ forecasts. While several studies have explored the effect of CEO narcissism on corporate financial reporting, this is the first study to expand such inquiry into the sector of financial analysts.
本研究以标准普尔500指数成份股公司为样本,构建了CEO自恋的衡量标准,并考察了自恋是否以及如何影响分析师预测的准确性和分散性。经验证据表明,ceo自恋的公司预测的准确性更高,分散性更低。在研究CEO自恋影响这些属性的机制时,我们发现CEO自恋的公司更有可能发布管理层盈余指引,尽管准确性较低,这导致分析师预测的准确性和分散性存在显著差异。本研究的结论是,通过更多的管理层自愿披露,CEO自恋对财务分析师预测的准确性产生积极影响,对分散性产生消极影响。虽然有几项研究探讨了CEO自恋对公司财务报告的影响,但这是第一次将这种调查扩展到金融分析师领域。
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引用次数: 1
Does corporate governance quality influence insider trading around private meetings between managers and investors? 公司治理质量是否会影响管理者与投资者私下会面的内幕交易?
IF 2.5 4区 管理学 Q2 Business, Management and Accounting Pub Date : 2022-07-19 DOI: 10.2308/horizons-2020-184
R. M. Bowen, S. Dutta, Songlian Tang, P. Zhu
We examine the effectiveness of corporate governance in influencing insider trading around private in-house meetings (hereafter “private meetings”) between management and investors in China. Consistent with better corporate governance curbing (i) disclosure of non-public price-sensitive information and (ii) insider trading, we find that better governance quality is associated with reduced insider trading frequency, value, and profitability around private meetings. Firms with better corporate governance appear to  exchange less price-sensitive information with outsider investors around  private meetings, which limits the opportunity to make profitable insider trades. Our results are economically significant and robust using instrumental variable and propensity score matching approaches to address endogeneity. We argue that improving corporate governance quality may be a partial substitute for costly government regulation designed to curb insider trading around private meetings.
我们研究了公司治理在影响中国管理层和投资者之间的私人内部会议(以下简称“私人会议”)内幕交易方面的有效性。与更好的公司治理遏制(i)非公开价格敏感信息的披露和(ii)内幕交易一致,我们发现,更好的治理质量与私人会议周围内幕交易频率、价值和盈利能力的降低有关。公司治理较好的公司似乎会在私人会议上与外部投资者交换价格敏感度较低的信息,这限制了进行有利可图的内幕交易的机会。使用工具变量和倾向得分匹配方法来解决内生性问题,我们的结果具有经济意义和稳健性。我们认为,提高公司治理质量可能部分取代旨在遏制私人会议内幕交易的昂贵政府监管。
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引用次数: 2
Audit Market Concentration and Audit Quality: Evidence from Analysts' Forecasts 审计市场集中度与审计质量:来自分析师预测的证据
IF 2.5 4区 管理学 Q2 Business, Management and Accounting Pub Date : 2022-07-11 DOI: 10.2308/horizons-19-192
Bryan G. Brockbank, Chuong Do, Bradley P. Lawson
Audit market concentration remains a concern due to its potential impact on audit quality. We examine whether audit market concentration influences properties of analysts’ forecasts. We find that analyst forecasts are more accurate and less dispersed when audit markets are more concentrated. Consistent with regulators’ concerns, we find evidence of decreased auditor independence in concentrated markets but also increased auditor effort and a higher likelihood of a Big N auditor. This results in an overall net positive effect between audit market concentration, audit quality, and, ultimately, analysts’ forecasts. These results are concentrated in settings where analysts rely more on audited financial statements. Our findings support regulators’ concerns regarding concentration in the U.S. audit market, but also help to explain why audit market concentration leads to improved audit quality.
由于审计市场集中度对审计质量的潜在影响,它仍然是一个值得关注的问题。我们考察了审计市场集中度是否会影响分析师预测的性质。我们发现,审计市场越集中,分析师的预测越准确,分散性越低。与监管机构的担忧一致,我们发现有证据表明,在集中的市场中,审计师的独立性有所下降,但也增加了审计师的努力,并且出现大N审计师的可能性更高。这导致了审计市场集中度、审计质量以及最终分析师预测之间的整体净正效应。这些结果集中在分析师更依赖经审计财务报表的情况下。我们的研究结果支持了监管机构对美国审计市场集中度的担忧,但也有助于解释为什么审计市场集中度会导致审计质量的提高。
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引用次数: 0
WITHIN OR ACROSS AUDITORS? UNDERSTANDING KNOWLEDGE TRANSFER IN AUDIT PRODUCTION 在审计师内部还是在审计师之间?理解审计生产中的知识转移
IF 2.5 4区 管理学 Q2 Business, Management and Accounting Pub Date : 2022-06-24 DOI: 10.2308/horizons-19-014
Allen D. Blay, Landon M. Mauler, Jonathan Nash
Knowledge transfer affects audit production: it is an underlying reason for specialization premiums and economies of scale. Using measures of client-level comparability to proxy for the internal (within-auditor) and external (across auditors) knowledge transfers that occur during audit production, our results indicate that internal knowledge transfer subsumes external knowledge transfer. Although this result may seem intuitive, recent research implies external knowledge transfer significantly impacts audit efficiency. Thus, the dominance of internal knowledge transfer is important to document. We also provide evidence that the benefits of auditor specialization are not uniform, as typically modeled in the literature. Specifically, we provide evidence that knowledge transfer enhances the efficiencies from auditor specialization. Finally, we find knowledge transfer is associated with greater audit efficiency irrespective of auditor specialization or industry homogeneity. Overall, our results reaffirm the importance of within-auditor knowledge transfer and highlight the importance of considering client characteristics when examining knowledge transfer.
知识转移影响审计生产:这是专业化溢价和规模经济的根本原因。使用客户层面的可比性指标来代替审计生产过程中发生的内部(审计师内部)和外部(审计师之间)知识转移,我们的结果表明,内部知识转移包括外部知识转移。尽管这一结果看起来很直观,但最近的研究表明,外部知识转移会显著影响审计效率。因此,内部知识转移的主导地位对文献来说很重要。我们还提供了证据,证明审计师专业化的好处并不统一,正如文献中典型的那样。具体而言,我们提供的证据表明,知识转移提高了审计师专业化的效率。最后,我们发现,无论审计师专业化或行业同质性如何,知识转移都与更高的审计效率有关。总体而言,我们的研究结果重申了审计师内部知识转移的重要性,并强调了在审查知识转移时考虑客户特征的重要性。
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引用次数: 0
The essential role of accounting information in the capital markets: Updating seminal research results with current evidence 会计信息在资本市场中的重要作用:用现有证据更新开创性的研究结果
IF 2.5 4区 管理学 Q2 Business, Management and Accounting Pub Date : 2022-06-21 DOI: 10.2308/horizons-18-075
D. Nichols, James M. Wahlen
An extensive literature of empirical research provides important insights into the role of accounting information in the equity capital markets. In this article, we use data from 2002 through 2016 to present updated evidence on four major areas of research: the earnings-returns relation and market efficiency; earnings management; cash flows versus accruals; and financial statement analysis. In addition to updating seminal results with new evidence, we also introduce some new findings that were not in the original studies. We provide straightforward descriptions of the research methodologies and important implications from evidence from seminal studies using current empirical data. Our paper is intended particularly for the benefit of students, practitioners, and others who may not yet have been exposed to this literature.
大量的实证研究文献为会计信息在股权资本市场中的作用提供了重要的见解。在本文中,我们使用2002年至2016年的数据,提供了四个主要研究领域的最新证据:盈余回报关系和市场效率;盈余管理;现金流量与应计项目;以及财务报表分析。除了用新的证据更新开创性的结果外,我们还介绍了一些原始研究中没有的新发现。我们直接描述了研究方法,并使用当前的经验数据从开创性研究中获得了重要启示。我们的论文特别是为了学生、从业者和其他可能还没有接触过这些文献的人的利益。
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引用次数: 2
When Cash Is Not King: An Examination of the Relative Effectiveness of Tangible vs. Cash Incentives on Whistleblower Reporting 当现金不是王道:对举报人举报的有形激励与现金激励相对有效性的考察
IF 2.5 4区 管理学 Q2 Business, Management and Accounting Pub Date : 2022-06-08 DOI: 10.2308/horizons-2020-189
Rosemond Desir, Stephen J. Perreault, J. Wainberg
We investigate the effects of incentive type (i.e., cash vs. tangible) in motivating whistleblower behavior. While prior research indicates that cash rewards are an effective means for motivating whistleblower reporting, research has yet to examine the relative effectiveness of tangible incentives (e.g., gift cards, incentive travel, and merchandise) in promoting these prosocial behaviors. Motivated by mental accounting theory, our study experimentally tests and finds that the type of reward offered (cash vs. tangible) interacts with reward size to predict whistleblower reporting behavior. Specifically, whistleblower reporting was less (more) sensitive to changes in reward size when small tangible (cash) rewards were offered. These findings suggest that tangible (i.e., non-cash) rewards can increase both the efficiency and effectiveness of whistleblower incentive programs and should be of considerable interest to managers, corporate boards, audit committees, and those charged with corporate governance.
我们调查激励类型(即现金vs有形)在激励举报人行为的影响。虽然先前的研究表明,现金奖励是激励举报人举报的有效手段,但研究尚未检验有形奖励(如礼品卡、奖励旅行和商品)在促进这些亲社会行为方面的相对有效性。在心理会计理论的激励下,我们的研究通过实验测试并发现,提供的奖励类型(现金vs有形)与奖励大小相互作用,可以预测举报人的举报行为。具体来说,当提供小额有形(现金)奖励时,举报人报告对奖励规模的变化不太(更)敏感。这些发现表明,有形(即非现金)奖励可以提高举报人激励计划的效率和有效性,并且应该引起经理,公司董事会,审计委员会和负责公司治理的人的极大兴趣。
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Can the FASB Regain Its Mojo? 美国财务会计准则委员会能否重振雄风?
IF 2.5 4区 管理学 Q2 Business, Management and Accounting Pub Date : 2022-06-01 DOI: 10.2308/horizons-2021-133
Jack T. Ciesielski
In recent years, the FASB has concerned itself with simplification of accounting standards, rather than prioritizing the improvement of financial reporting for the benefit of investors. While companies grow more complex and larger, and place more investments in intangible assets, financial reporting has not kept pace. This is making financial statements less relevant than ever. In its nearly 50-year history, FASB has responded well to the needs of investors when circumstances demanded an effective response. This was evidenced by its relatively speedy, experimental approach to inflation accounting in the late 1970s. Contrast that to its slow-motion response on intangible asset recognition and disclosures, a project languishing over 20 years. FASB's agenda has become clogged as the board devotes more of its attention and resources to the Private Company Council's needs. An open question: can the FASB regain its former intense focus on investor needs and put aside simplification efforts?
近年来,FASB一直关注简化会计准则,而不是为了投资者的利益而优先考虑改进财务报告。尽管公司变得更加复杂和庞大,并在无形资产上进行了更多投资,但财务报告却没有跟上步伐。这使得财务报表的相关性比以往任何时候都要低。在其近50年的历史中,FASB在情况需要有效应对时,对投资者的需求做出了良好的回应。20世纪70年代末,其相对快速、实验性的通胀核算方法证明了这一点。与之形成对比的是,该公司在无形资产确认和披露方面反应迟缓,该项目已经搁置了20多年。由于董事会将更多的注意力和资源投入到私营公司理事会的需求上,FASB的议程已经被堵塞。一个悬而未决的问题是:美国财务会计准则委员会能否恢复以前对投资者需求的高度关注,并搁置简化工作?
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Accounting Estimation Intensity, Auditor Estimation Expertise, and Managerial Bias 会计估计强度、审计师估计专业知识与管理偏见
IF 2.5 4区 管理学 Q2 Business, Management and Accounting Pub Date : 2022-05-24 DOI: 10.2308/horizons-2020-193
J. P. Boone, Inder K. Khurana, K. Raman
We examine the relation between the accounting estimation intensity (AEI) ingrained in a company’s financial reports and the company’s propensity to meet or beat analyst earnings forecasts, and whether this relation is attenuated by the auditor’s estimation expertise at the city-office or national level. Although we find a positive relation between AEI and the propensity to meet analyst forecasts, we find little evidence to suggest that the relation is weakened by auditor estimation expertise. Along the same lines, we find little evidence to suggest that the positive relation between AEI and audit fees is affected by auditor estimation expertise. Our findings are of potential interest to regulators concerned about insufficient auditor skepticism in the audit of accounting estimates, investors interested in better understanding managerial accounting judgments, and academics investigating audit quality.
我们研究了公司财务报告中根深蒂固的会计估计强度(AEI)与公司达到或超过分析师盈利预测的倾向之间的关系,以及这种关系是否因审计师在市政府或国家层面的估计专业知识而减弱。尽管我们发现AEI与满足分析师预测的倾向之间存在正相关关系,但我们几乎没有发现证据表明审计师的估计专业知识削弱了这种关系。同样,我们发现几乎没有证据表明AEI和审计费用之间的正相关关系受到审计师估计专业知识的影响。我们的发现可能会引起监管机构的兴趣,他们担心审计师在会计估计审计中的怀疑不足,投资者有兴趣更好地理解管理会计判断,学者们也有兴趣调查审计质量。
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The Impact of Benefit Plan Audits on the Financial Statement Audit 福利计划审计对财务报表审计的影响
IF 2.5 4区 管理学 Q2 Business, Management and Accounting Pub Date : 2022-04-18 DOI: 10.2308/horizons-2020-003
Jaclyn Prentice, Kenneth L. Bills, Gary F. Peters
Benefit plan audits, a material but less understood public accounting service, represent a non-audit service that is “audit-related.” We explore the implications of benefit plan audits for the financial statement audit. We find that performing a benefit plan audit for a company significantly increases the likelihood that the firm will be selected as a company’s financial statement auditor in the future, particularly for smaller audit firms. Further, we find that companies that engage the same audit firm for both their benefit plan and financial statement audits have a significantly lower likelihood of misstatements and shorter audit report lags. Finally, we find evidence consistent with the joint provision of these services creating greater bonding and higher switching costs for the financial statement audit. Our findings speak to the continued debate over effective market expansion of financial statement audit providers, audit quality determinants, and audit efficiencies.
福利计划审计是一种实质性但鲜为人知的公共会计服务,代表着一种“与审计相关”的非审计服务。我们探讨了福利计划审计对财务报表审计的影响。我们发现,对一家公司进行福利计划审计会显著增加该公司未来被选为公司财务报表审计师的可能性,尤其是对于较小的审计公司。此外,我们发现,聘请同一家审计公司进行福利计划和财务报表审计的公司,错误陈述的可能性显著降低,审计报告滞后时间更短。最后,我们发现了与联合提供这些服务相一致的证据,为财务报表审计创造了更大的联系和更高的转换成本。我们的研究结果表明,关于财务报表审计提供商的有效市场扩张、审计质量决定因素和审计效率的争论仍在继续。
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