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This paper undertakes a comparative analysis of financial management in the British motor industry in the 1950s and … symptomatic of the absence of financial imperatives among British management at this time. Finally we widen the agenda to place … our findings on financial management into a wider literature dealing more generally with the problems of managerial …
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affect investment, particularly R&D expenditures, when firms have financial covenants that are affected by changes in GAAP …
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This article provides a comprehensive assessment of private firms' financing sources and their relation with financial … differential demand for and supply of financial reporting …
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Parties needing to monitor the financial performance of not-for-profit (NFP) organizations have traditionally relied … upon financial ratios of accounting data. This practice can lead to misleading inferences about profitability in relation …
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We examine whether variation in the separation of ownership and control influences the tax practices of private firms with different ownership structures. Fama and Jensen (1983) assert that when equity ownership and corporate decision-making are concentrated in just a small number of...
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This paper investigates the earnings management activities in Chinese listed firms and the impact of the split share … accrual-based earnings management activities over the 2002–2011 period. This reflects the environment of weak investor … fundamentally improved firms' quality of financial information. This may be because ownership concentration remains high. However …
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This paper investigates the effects of managerial mergers- and acquisitions-related investment strategies on the exit …
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Outside directors have incentives to resign to protect their reputation or to avoid an increase in their workload when they anticipate that the firm on whose board they sit will perform poorly or disclose adverse news. We call these incentives the dark side of outside directors. We find strong...
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Canadian financial restatements announced during 1997–2006 lower market quality and signal to market participants that …
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