Fiscal year-end 2018 and 2019 10-Ks filed with the SEC provide evidence of increasing use of blockchain technology by companies, but do not indicate an immediate disruptive revolution. In recent years, several large companies that were identified as using blockchain technology in business...

Diversity and inclusion advocates claim organizations benefit from diversity. Diversity is purportedly associated with many positive outcomes such as increased creativity, reduced turnover, increased productivity, a broader talent pool from which to choose, improved employee performance,...

This study examines whether companies' patents obtained had less impact on future operating cash flows during the period of most patent troll litigation, 2010 to 2014. We conduct analyses using cash flow predictive models and observations from companies that had consistently obtained patents...

The number and importance of private companies in the United States indicates that reliable quality of financial accounting reports (QFAR) of private companies that are useful for decision making is likely to be important for economic growth. Most previous research examining QFAR addressed...

The AICPA recently finished a harmonization project to converge U.S. audit standards with those of the International Audit and Assurance Standards Board. The assumption implicit in this project is that users of financial statements will benefit from a converged, or consistent set of audit...