We examine the role of Chief Executive Officer (CEO) power in the selection of accounting financial experts (AFEs) to audit committees. Our results show that firms with powerful CEOs have a lower likelihood of appointing AFEs to the audit committee. Furthermore, firms with powerful CEOs are less...

We examine a firm’s decision to announce a cut to CEO pay in response to challenges arising from the COVID-19 pandemic. The rationale behind these announcements and the extent of the pay cuts, however, have been widely questioned. Specifically, we examine whether the announcement of a CEO pay...

This paper builds on and contributes to the currently emerging literature on CFO’s compensation and turnover. We focus on the association between the CFO’s compensation and turnover and his/her “accounting talent.” We contend that the accounting talent of CFOs can be measured by...

This paper provides evidence on the use of discount rates for calculating defined benefit liabilities (DBL), and their impact on value relevance and audit fees for Australian listed companies between 2011 and 2016. We document that the average discount rate is 3.96% but the yearly...

The study described in this paper focuses on testing the short-run and long-run relationships between house price and consumer price indices in Australia¡¦s capital cities from 1998 to 2008. The autoregressive distributed lag model is adopted to obtain the estimates of the short-run...

Investors encounter integration costs which prevent them from processing accounting information effectively for investment decisions. This paper provides the first direct empirical evidence on whether accounting quality affects investors’ efforts and hence the costs in integrating financial...