Purpose The purpose of this study is to develop a method to assess social performance. Traditionally, environment, social and governance (ESG) rating providers use subjectively weighted arithmetic averages to combine a set of social performance (SP) indicators into one single rating. To overcome...

Research Question/Issue: This paper examines whether CEOs whose writing is more difficult to read is a signal or proxy for difficulty in monitoring their activities, resulting in increased monitoring costs. If so, does this increased monitoring cost result in higher performance-pay sensitivity...

Chapter 1. Introduction -- Part 1 – Emerging Technologies, and Accounting and Auditing Challenges -- Chapter 2. A picture is worth a thousand words: Audit efficiency and risk management through data visualization -- Chapter 3. The Challenges Facing Vietnamese Accountants and Auditors with the...

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to investigate the connection between the type of negotiation tactics auditors use when they ask their clients to make adjustments to their financial reports, focusing on three distributive and two integrative negotiation tactics, and whether the auditors...