Tang, Qingquan; Guo, Jingjing; Huang, Zhihong - In: China journal of accounting research : CJAR 14 (2021) 4, pp. 1-22
Mergers and acquisitions (M&As) are among the most important investment activities for companies, but they contain great risks. We investigate the role of accounting conservatism in M&A target selection and risk. We find that for risk-averse reasons, firms with high accounting conservatism are...