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Implicit Attitudes and U.S. Tax Professionals’ Reliance on Offshore Tax Professionals’ Recommendations 隐性态度和美国税务专业人员对离岸税务专业人员建议的依赖
Pub Date : 2020-08-05 DOI: 10.2139/ssrn.3667785
Brian C. Spilker, Bryan W. Stewart, David A. Wood
Large accounting firms offshore a significant amount of tax work to professionals in India. Prior research suggests that individuals can have negative implicit attitudes toward people from different nationalities and that such attitudes can have undesired consequences. In this study, we measure a sample of U.S. tax professionals' implicit attitudes toward Indian persons using an Implicit Association Test (IAT) and find that participants have strong negative implicit attitudes toward Indian persons relative to U.S. persons. Nevertheless, participants do not evaluate the work of U.S. tax professionals any differently than the (identical) work of Indian tax professionals. Participants appear able to rise above their negative implicit attitudes and perform their tax work without bias in our experiment. However, it is important to acknowledge that negative implicit attitudes may result in biased behavior in contexts outside of our experiment. Data Availability: Please contact the authors.
大型会计师事务所将大量的税务工作外包给印度的专业人士。先前的研究表明,个人对不同国籍的人可能会有消极的内隐态度,这种态度可能会产生意想不到的后果。在本研究中,我们使用内隐联想测验(IAT)测量了美国税务专业人员对印度人的内隐态度样本,发现参与者相对于美国人对印度人有强烈的负面内隐态度。然而,参与者并没有评价美国税务专业人员的工作与印度税务专业人员(相同)的工作有任何不同。在我们的实验中,参与者似乎能够超越他们的消极内隐态度,并在没有偏见的情况下完成他们的税务工作。然而,重要的是要承认,消极的内隐态度可能会导致在我们的实验之外的环境中有偏见的行为。资料可得性:请联系作者。
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Pick a Number between 0 and 100: An Examination of Percentage-Based Scales 在0到100之间选择一个数字:百分制量表的检验
Pub Date : 2020-08-02 DOI: 10.2139/ssrn.3665726
Jared Eutsler
This study provides evidence on the relationship between scale characteristics and participant responses for percentage-based scales (i.e., 101 points) in accounting research. A 4×1 between-subjects experiment examines how common labeling designs affect various statistical properties, including means, variance, normality of the distribution, and frequency of responses. The results indicate that labels on percentage-based scales have a significant impact on the distribution of participants’ responses. Labeling only the endpoints is the lone condition that results in normally distributed data. Additional analyses suggest that labels on percentage-based scales influence participant responses in multiple ways. First, as the number of labels increases, participants may not adequately consider, and thus ultimately select, unlabeled points. Second, while participants seem to inherently interpret percentage-based scales in quartiles and deciles, labeling as such exacerbates this tendency. Finally, when more labels are present, participants seem to engage an anchoring heuristic when selecting their response. Taken as a whole, the results suggest that accounting researchers may benefit from labeling only the endpoints of percentage-based scales.
本研究为会计研究中基于百分比的量表(即101分)的规模特征与参与者反应之间的关系提供了证据。4×1受试者之间的实验检验了常见的标签设计如何影响各种统计特性,包括均值、方差、分布的正态性和响应频率。结果表明,基于百分比的标签对参与者的反应分布有显著影响。只标记端点是导致数据正态分布的唯一条件。其他分析表明,基于百分比的量表上的标签以多种方式影响参与者的反应。首先,随着标签数量的增加,参与者可能没有充分考虑,从而最终选择未标记的点。其次,虽然参与者似乎天生就用四分位数和十分位数来解释基于百分比的量表,但这样的标签加剧了这种趋势。最后,当更多的标签出现时,参与者在选择他们的回答时似乎采用了锚定启发式。作为一个整体,结果表明,会计研究人员可能受益于标记仅基于百分比的尺度的端点。
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Does Emphasizing Management Bias Decrease Auditors’ Sensitivity to Measurement Imprecision? 强调管理偏见会降低审计师对计量不精确的敏感性吗?
Pub Date : 2020-08-01 DOI: 10.2139/ssrn.3680716
Ben W. Van Landuyt
Both management bias and measurement imprecision threaten the accurate reporting of complex accounting estimates, yet audit policymakers and practitioners often place a strong emphasis on bias. I examine whether directing auditors’ attention towards management bias can come at the expense of insufficient auditor sensitivity to measurement imprecision, potentially threatening overall audit quality. My primary investigation, Study 1, finds that when managers’ explicit incentives to bias financial reports are relatively weaker, an imbalanced emphasis on bias causes auditor-like participants in a stylized setting to “lower their guard” to a greater extent than when environmental factors place a more balanced emphasis on bias and imprecision. Study 2 indicates that an imbalanced emphasis on imprecision does not similarly distract auditors from bias. Study 3 utilizes a more contextually rich setting and demonstrates that an imbalanced emphasis on bias prompts even professional auditors to neglect imprecision. Accordingly, this paper suggests that a balanced emphasis on both management bias and measurement imprecision can mitigate negative consequences of auditors focusing on the former and neglecting the latter.
管理偏见和计量不精确都威胁到复杂会计估计的准确报告,但审计政策制定者和从业者往往非常强调偏见。我研究了将审计师的注意力引向管理偏见是否会以审计师对计量不精确的敏感度不足为代价,从而潜在地威胁到整体审计质量。我的主要调查,研究1,发现当管理者对偏向财务报告的明确激励相对较弱时,与环境因素对偏向和不精确的强调更为平衡时相比,对偏向的不平衡强调会导致程式化设置中的审计类参与者在更大程度上“降低警惕”。研究2表明,对不精确的不平衡强调同样不会分散审计师的偏见。研究3利用了一个更丰富的背景设置,并证明了对偏见的不平衡强调甚至会促使专业审计师忽视不准确性。因此,本文建议平衡地强调管理偏差和计量不精确可以减轻审计师关注前者而忽视后者的负面后果。
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Categorization Effects in Capital Markets: Evidence From Unicorn IPOs 资本市场的分类效应:来自独角兽ipo的证据
Pub Date : 2020-07-29 DOI: 10.2139/ssrn.3663722
Badryah Alhusaini, Bradley E. Hendricks, W. Landsman
We use the introduction of the Unicorn nomenclature to reference venture-backed firms with valuations in excess of $1 billion to examine how firm categorization influences investor demand and retail trade activity during IPO price formation. We predict and find evidence to suggest that the positive appeal associated with an IPO firm’s Unicorn categorization increases IPO investor demand, as evidenced by the firm’s shares pricing above the proposed IPO pricing range and experiencing higher first-day returns relative to an entropy-matched sample of control firms. Adopting a structural-equation methodology that considers explicitly the sequence of IPO price formation, we also show that Unicorn categorization is informative for understanding retail trade activity both directly and indirectly through the mediating effects of news coverage. We also show that Unicorn categorization relates negatively to post-IPO stock performance, and that Unicorn categorization increases the sensitivity of post-IPO stock performance to pre-IPO profitability. These findings, taken together, provide evidence that categorization hides category members’ individual idiosyncrasies and causes them to assume the category’s affective tone.
我们使用独角兽命名法来参考估值超过10亿美元的风险投资支持公司,以研究公司分类如何影响IPO价格形成期间的投资者需求和零售贸易活动。我们预测并发现证据表明,与IPO公司的独角兽分类相关的积极吸引力会增加IPO投资者的需求,这一点可以通过公司的股票定价高于拟议的IPO定价范围以及相对于控制公司的熵匹配样本具有更高的首日回报来证明。采用明确考虑IPO价格形成顺序的结构方程方法,我们还表明,通过新闻报道的中介效应,独角兽分类对理解零售贸易活动具有直接和间接的信息。我们还发现,独角兽分类与ipo后股票表现负相关,独角兽分类增加了ipo后股票表现对ipo前盈利能力的敏感性。综上所述,这些发现提供了证据,表明分类隐藏了类别成员的个人特质,并导致他们假设类别的情感基调。
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引用次数: 1
Financial Accounting and Auditing Experiments in the Journal of Accounting Research: Historical Background and Recent Advances 《会计研究杂志》上的财务会计与审计实验:历史背景与最新进展
Pub Date : 2020-07-10 DOI: 10.2139/ssrn.3678868
Steven J. Kachelmeier
This virtual issue traces the evolution of financial accounting and auditing experiments in the Journal of Accounting Research from early efforts in the midst of prevailing beliefs in informational market efficiency to contemporary advances from 2010 to date.
这一虚拟问题追溯了财务会计和审计实验在《会计研究杂志》上的演变,从信息市场效率盛行的早期努力到2010年至今的当代进展。
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引用次数: 3
Promoting Proactive Auditing Behaviors 促进主动审计行为
Pub Date : 2020-06-26 DOI: 10.2139/ssrn.3636498
Mark E. Peecher, Michael A. Ricci, Yuepin (Daniel) Zhou
We introduce the construct of auditor proactivity to the accounting literature. Since auditors work in complex, dynamic environments where complete directives are often unavailable, auditors need to be proactive to achieve quality audit outcomes. However, proactivity is often lacking in practice. Thus, we position auditor proactivity as a valuable but scarce determinant of audit quality. Drawing on literature on employee proactivity, tacit knowledge, and regulatory focus theory, we identify three synergistic antecedents to a range of distinct proactive auditing behaviors. Using an experiment, we find that auditors with greater autonomy engage in more proactive behaviors, but only if they have both higher tacit knowledge and a focus on achieving positive job outcomes (rather than avoiding negative job outcomes). Our theory and findings inform academics, regulators, and practitioners about how work environments and policies could be modified to promote proactive auditing behaviors.
我们将审计师主动性的概念引入到会计文献中。由于审核员在复杂、动态的环境中工作,通常无法获得完整的指令,因此审核员需要积极主动地获得高质量的审核结果。然而,在实践中往往缺乏主动性。因此,我们将审计师的主动性定位为审计质量的一个有价值但稀缺的决定因素。根据有关员工主动性、隐性知识和监管焦点理论的文献,我们确定了一系列不同的主动性审计行为的三个协同前因。通过一项实验,我们发现拥有更大自主权的审计师会采取更主动的行为,但前提是他们拥有更高的隐性知识,并专注于实现积极的工作结果(而不是避免消极的工作结果)。我们的理论和发现为学者、监管者和从业人员提供了有关如何修改工作环境和政策以促进主动审计行为的信息。
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引用次数: 3
Shielding the Workforce: Does Subordinate Contract Frame Induce Leniency in Superiors’ Target-Setting Decisions? 保护员工:下属契约框架是否会导致上级目标设定决策的宽大处理?
Pub Date : 2020-06-01 DOI: 10.2139/ssrn.3635688
Rachel M. Martin, Tyler F. Thomas, Dimitri Yatsenko
Management control systems affect employees at every level of the organizational hierarchy, so it is crucial to evaluate how controls at one hierarchical level spillover to another level. We examine how subordinates’ contract frame, an important management control, affects superiors’ target-setting decisions, another important control. Using an experiment, we predict and find that superiors set lower targets for subordinates under a penalty contract compared to a bonus contract, as superiors can project their negative perceptions of penalties onto subordinates and seek to reduce these perceived negative effects. Further, we predict and find that increasing the salience of subordinates’ contract choice to the superior mitigates the effect of subordinate contract frame on target-setting, and that these effects are stronger in low Dark Triad superiors compared to high Dark Triad superiors. Our findings add insights into the interrelationships of management controls at different hierarchical levels within the organization.
管理控制系统影响到组织层级的每个层级的员工,因此评估一个层级的控制如何溢出到另一个层级是至关重要的。我们考察了下属的契约框架(一种重要的管理控制)如何影响上级的目标设定决策(另一种重要的控制)。通过实验,我们预测并发现,与奖金合同相比,在惩罚合同下,上级为下属设定的目标较低,因为上级可以将他们对惩罚的负面看法投射到下属身上,并寻求减少这些感知到的负面影响。此外,我们预测并发现,增加下属契约选择对上级的显著性,会减轻下属契约框架对目标设定的影响,并且这种影响在低黑暗三合一的上级中比在高黑暗三合一的上级中更强。我们的发现增加了对组织内不同层次管理控制的相互关系的见解。
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引用次数: 1
Managerial Overconfidence, Research and Development, and Earnings Management: Perspective from Capitalization and Expense 管理层过度自信、研发与盈余管理:资本化与费用视角
Pub Date : 2020-05-30 DOI: 10.2139/ssrn.3610639
Guanglei Zhou, Bingwei Chen, Yuxuan Wu
Managerial overconfidence, originally disputed in terms of finance and accounting, has been dated back to Malmendier and Tate (2005a,b). Galasso and Simcoe (2011) studied the relationship between CEO overconfidence and innovation, focusing on patents, in which they found that overconfident CEO underestimates risks in R&D activities, resulting in more R&D expenditure. However, little literature concentrates on expense and capitalization of R&D expenditure in China, where new accounting rule applied since 2007, and correspondingly the relationship between overconfidence and preference of expense and capitalization. By Tobit model and GMM model, we found that overconfidence managers have incentives to capitalize on R&D expenditure, because accrual earnings management motivated by capitalized R&D, different from real earning earnings management triggered by expense R&D, which cuts down R&D expense directly to beautify the earnings performance, adjust the proportion of research and development. Therefore, such a preference to capitalize R&D turns the corporation to deal with accrual earnings management instead of real earnings management.
管理过度自信,最初在财务和会计方面存在争议,可以追溯到Malmendier和Tate (2005,b)。Galasso和Simcoe(2011)对CEO过度自信与创新的关系进行了研究,研究的重点是专利,他们发现过度自信的CEO低估了研发活动中的风险,从而导致研发支出增加。然而,对于2007年开始实施新会计准则的中国研发支出的费用与资本化,以及相应的过度自信与费用偏好与资本化之间的关系,文献研究较少。通过Tobit模型和GMM模型,我们发现过度自信的管理者具有将研发支出资本化的动机,因为资本化研发所驱动的权责发生盈余管理不同于费用研发所引发的真实盈余盈余管理,后者直接降低研发费用以美化盈余绩效,调整研发比重。因此,这种对研发资本化的偏好使得公司处理应计盈余管理而不是真实盈余管理。
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引用次数: 2
Constructive Obligations and Past Practice 建设性义务和过去的实践
Pub Date : 2020-05-28 DOI: 10.2139/ssrn.3613216
S. Garavaglia, Cassie Mongold, Brian J. White
Accounting standards require companies to recognize liabilities when a pattern of past practice creates constructive obligations. We conduct two experiments to test whether, and under what circumstances, financial statement users believe that a company’s past practice gives rise to obligations. Although we find that financial statement users rely heavily on past practice to predict a company’s future activities, they do not believe that past practice alone is sufficient to obligate a company to continue the practice. There are, however, situations in which users believe past practice does create obligations, such as when a company’s employees rely on its past practice to make important decisions. Further, users believe that such obligations can arise from moral, and not necessarily legal, compulsion. This is important because it suggests that users view obligations as comprising a broader range of situations than would be encompassed by a strict legal standard for defining obligations. Our results present a nuanced picture of the role of past practice in creating obligations and provide input to standard setters as they consider how liabilities should be defined.
会计准则要求公司在过去的实践模式产生建设性义务时确认负债。我们进行了两个实验来检验财务报表使用者是否以及在何种情况下相信公司过去的做法会产生义务。虽然我们发现财务报表使用者严重依赖过去的做法来预测公司的未来活动,但他们并不认为过去的做法本身就足以使公司有义务继续这种做法。然而,在某些情况下,用户认为过去的做法确实会产生义务,例如当公司的员工依靠过去的做法做出重要决策时。此外,用户认为这种义务可能来自道德上的强制,而不一定是法律上的强制。这一点很重要,因为它表明用户认为义务包括的情况范围比定义义务的严格法律标准所包括的情况范围更广。我们的研究结果呈现了过去实践在创建义务中的作用的细微图景,并为标准制定者考虑如何定义负债提供了输入。
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The True Cost of Prescription Opioids 处方阿片类药物的真实成本
Pub Date : 2020-04-26 DOI: 10.2139/ssrn.3760582
Cristina Rodriguez Vera, and C M Friend, Osazee Paul, J. Welsh, Nataraj Dasgupta
This research paper investigates whether payments made to physicians by opioid manufacturers influence their prescribing behaviour for opioid medications. The relationship has been explored primarily using payments data from CMS OpenPayments, prescribing data from Medicare Part D Provider Utilization and Payment Data and county-level statistical & socio-economic data from University of Wisconsin Population Health Institute. Explanation and sources of covariates have been provided in the Data Dictionary. Using Fixed Effects Panel Data Analysis (with Robust Covariance Matrix estimates), higher payments were observed to lead to higher prescription rates and therefore, the impact and consequences of the association, in light of the US Opioid Crisis, were evaluated.
这篇研究论文调查了阿片类药物制造商向医生支付的费用是否会影响他们对阿片类药物的处方行为。这种关系主要是通过使用CMS OpenPayments的支付数据、医疗保险D部分提供者使用和支付数据以及县级统计数据来探索的。来自威斯康星大学人口健康研究所的社会经济数据。数据字典中提供了协变量的解释和来源。使用固定效应面板数据分析(稳健协方差矩阵估计),观察到更高的支付导致更高的处方率,因此,根据美国阿片类药物危机,评估了这种关联的影响和后果。
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