The present study explores the impact of earnings management on the readability of management discussion and analysis (MDA) section of annual reports of 384 Indian firms for 1,160 firm-years. It also explores the moderating behaviour of cash in explaining the association between earnings...

Climate change information, especially greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions disclosures (Scopes 1, 2 and 3), has recently attracted considerable interest from investors, companies, regulators, and other stakeholders. This study examines the relationship between voluntary scope 3 GHG emissions...

This paper takes advantage of a regulation in Europe that allows member states to prescribe lighter reporting requirements for smaller unlisted firms. Under this framework firm size is measured using three variables – total assets, revenues, and number of employees – over which firms have...

The aims of the study is to know the effect of conservatism accounting, corporate social responsibility (CSR) disclosure and tax avoidance on earnings management. In this study variable of conservatism accounting was proxy by accrual. Variable of CSR disclosure was proxy by corporate social...

The study of internal corporate governance mechanisms such as board characteristics plays a crucial role in explaining variation in corporate governance and disclosure practices across firms. The effectiveness of such corporate governance mechanism in maintaining healthy relationship between...