This paper presents research results on the BIH firms' financial reporting quality, utilizing empirical relation between accounting conservatism, generated in created critical accounting policy choices, and management abilities in estimates and prediction power of domicile private sector...

This paper presents empirical evidence on applied analysis interdependences with created accounting policies and estimates within Bosnia and Herzegovina (B&H) private commercial entities,in specific,targeting practice oriented relevance of financial indicators, non financial indicators,...

This paper investigates the factors affecting the conservatism of accounting reports at the market-level and firm-level. At the market-level, law and institutional factors explain conservatism, while at the firm-level contracting is the driver. We predict and observe that while both levels...

Using a sample of A-share listed firms in China during the 2003-2012 period, this paper investigates the effect of accounting conservatism on trade credit, taking changes in monetary policy into account. We find that corporations with higher accounting conservatism obtain more trade credit and...

This study analyzes the relation between accounting conservatism, future tax rate cuts and countries' level of book-tax conformity. Firms have an incentive to increase conservatism in financial reporting when a tax rate cut is imminent to shift taxable income into the lower taxed future. Using a...

his paper develops a theoretical model to understand the contractual role of accounting conservatism in debt contracts. The optimal debt contract includes an accounting based covenant that gives the creditor the right to liquidate when accounting information reveals unfavorable news about the...

Gender diversity on corporate boards is an important governance issue. Prior research suggests that female directors tend to be more ethical, conservative, socially responsible, independent and risk averse. Thus, female directors may con-tribute to improve board performance and earnings quality....

Accounting conservatism (AC) is one of the components of financial reporting, and has been widely studied by academicians to identify its impact on information quality. Scholars in accounting have started to explore how AC is related to different fundamental functional areas of organizations....