Pub Date : 2023-07-26DOI: 10.1080/00014788.2023.2226854
Afshad J. Irani, Irene Karamanou
{"title":"Why do firms disclose analyst following on their corporate websites?","authors":"Afshad J. Irani, Irene Karamanou","doi":"10.1080/00014788.2023.2226854","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00014788.2023.2226854","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":7054,"journal":{"name":"Accounting and Business Research","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2023-07-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49614069","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-07-25DOI: 10.1080/00014788.2023.2223897
Beatriz Santos-Cabalgante, Beatriz García Osma, Domi Romero Fúnez
{"title":"Dividend policy dispute in a context of concessionaire companies: the role of accounting in the case of Spanish Railway Companies (1920–1930)","authors":"Beatriz Santos-Cabalgante, Beatriz García Osma, Domi Romero Fúnez","doi":"10.1080/00014788.2023.2223897","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00014788.2023.2223897","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":7054,"journal":{"name":"Accounting and Business Research","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2023-07-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47278154","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-05-05DOI: 10.1080/00014788.2023.2196052
M. Hasan, Ahsan Habib
{"title":"Corporate tax avoidance and trade credit","authors":"M. Hasan, Ahsan Habib","doi":"10.1080/00014788.2023.2196052","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00014788.2023.2196052","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":7054,"journal":{"name":"Accounting and Business Research","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2023-05-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42101066","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-05-05DOI: 10.1080/00014788.2023.2186831
Shijiao Cao, Yongan Xu, Jianqiong Wang
{"title":"Shared continuing professional development courses and financial statement comparability","authors":"Shijiao Cao, Yongan Xu, Jianqiong Wang","doi":"10.1080/00014788.2023.2186831","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00014788.2023.2186831","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":7054,"journal":{"name":"Accounting and Business Research","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2023-05-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44854558","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-05-03DOI: 10.1080/00014788.2023.2183486
M. Kabir, Harun Rashid
{"title":"Do generalist CEOs engage in more tax avoidance than specialist CEOs?","authors":"M. Kabir, Harun Rashid","doi":"10.1080/00014788.2023.2183486","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00014788.2023.2183486","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":7054,"journal":{"name":"Accounting and Business Research","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2023-05-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43514071","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-03-27DOI: 10.1080/00014788.2023.2181141
Kholod Alsahali, Ricardo Malagueño, Ana Marques
We study whether and how the monitoring quality of the board of directors is associated with the choice of providers of assurance for sustainability disclosures. We also examine whether this relation depends on companies’ economic, legal, and social environment. In an international empirical study considering five categories of assurance providers, we find that key board attributes, including board size, frequency of board meetings, CEO separation, proportion of women on the board, and the existence of a sustainability committee affect the type of assurance provider chosen by companies. Overall, companies with higher board monitoring quality are more likely to appoint a Big 4 assurer for their sustainability disclosures. Companies with a sustainability committee are more likely to engage an engineering firm, while firms with more board meetings are more likely to appoint an expert assurer. Moreover, we find that companies based in countries with strong environments are more likely to engage an external assurance provider, particularly a Big 4 assurer or an engineering firm. Overall, our results indicate that international sustainability disclosure assurance choices depend on corporate governance practices, as well as countries’ economic, social and legal environment.
{"title":"Board attributes and companies’ choice of sustainability assurance providers","authors":"Kholod Alsahali, Ricardo Malagueño, Ana Marques","doi":"10.1080/00014788.2023.2181141","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00014788.2023.2181141","url":null,"abstract":"We study whether and how the monitoring quality of the board of directors is associated with the choice of providers of assurance for sustainability disclosures. We also examine whether this relation depends on companies’ economic, legal, and social environment. In an international empirical study considering five categories of assurance providers, we find that key board attributes, including board size, frequency of board meetings, CEO separation, proportion of women on the board, and the existence of a sustainability committee affect the type of assurance provider chosen by companies. Overall, companies with higher board monitoring quality are more likely to appoint a Big 4 assurer for their sustainability disclosures. Companies with a sustainability committee are more likely to engage an engineering firm, while firms with more board meetings are more likely to appoint an expert assurer. Moreover, we find that companies based in countries with strong environments are more likely to engage an external assurance provider, particularly a Big 4 assurer or an engineering firm. Overall, our results indicate that international sustainability disclosure assurance choices depend on corporate governance practices, as well as countries’ economic, social and legal environment.","PeriodicalId":7054,"journal":{"name":"Accounting and Business Research","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-03-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135891038","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-02-21DOI: 10.1080/00014788.2023.2178597
{"title":"Thank you to reviewers","authors":"","doi":"10.1080/00014788.2023.2178597","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00014788.2023.2178597","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":7054,"journal":{"name":"Accounting and Business Research","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-02-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135029914","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-02-13DOI: 10.1080/00014788.2023.2165030
Juan Mao, Baolei Qi, Guochang Zhang
{"title":"The scale and scope of the client portfolio and audit quality at the individual auditor level: evidence from China","authors":"Juan Mao, Baolei Qi, Guochang Zhang","doi":"10.1080/00014788.2023.2165030","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00014788.2023.2165030","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":7054,"journal":{"name":"Accounting and Business Research","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2023-02-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48478593","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-02-06DOI: 10.1080/00014788.2023.2165031
D. Rahman, M. Kabir, Muhammad Jahangir Ali, B. Oliver
{"title":"Does product market competition influence annual report readability?","authors":"D. Rahman, M. Kabir, Muhammad Jahangir Ali, B. Oliver","doi":"10.1080/00014788.2023.2165031","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00014788.2023.2165031","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":7054,"journal":{"name":"Accounting and Business Research","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2023-02-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48205318","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}