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To understand the disruption and implications of distributed ledger technologies for financial reporting and auditing … blockchain for financial reporting and auditing can improve verification efficiency not only for transactions in private … in financial reporting, including the positive spillover to discretionary auditing and who should bear the cost of …
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-known asset pricing anomalies often attributed to mispricing. EDGAR facilitates easier access to public accounting information …-in-differences regressions, we find that both EDGAR and XBRL reduce mispricing for accounting-based anomalies but not for non-accounting …-based anomalies. The economic magnitudes of the effects on accounting-based anomalies are similar for EDGAR and XBRL. These results …
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accounting at similar rates and have comparable writing quality to their non-rule counterparts. Overall, these findings are …
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events, including the well-known accounting scandals, passage of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, and …
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two years at a time and use generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP) do not do this. We present an alternative …
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Performance-raising practices tend to diffuse slowly in the health care sector. To understand how incentives drive adoption, I study a practice that generates revenue for hospitals: submitting detailed documentation about patients. After a 2008 reform, hospitals could raise their Medicare...
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In official international trade statistics, annual commerce between every pair of countries is reported twice: once by the importing country and once by the exporter. These double reports provide an opportunity for audit. In principle, the two reported trade values should differ systematically...
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Private equity funds hold assets that are hard to value. Managers may have an incentive to distort reported valuations if these are used by investors to decide on commitments to subsequent funds managed by the same firm. Using a large dataset of buyout and venture funds, we test for the presence...
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-owned enterprises via real activity manipulation (a standard measure from the accounting literature), which we show is higher under …
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This article studies optimal fines when an offender's wealth is private information that can be obtained by the enforcement authority only after a costly audit. I derive the optimal fine for the underlying offense, the optimal fine for misrepresenting one's wealth level, and the optimal audit...
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