Recent corporate failure has challenged the credibility of the accounting profession, leading many stakeholders to … question the usefulness of financial reports for decision-making. This paper examines fluctuations in the accounting profession …’s authoritative influence over accounting standard setting and financial reporting. It focuses on the period following the collapse of …

private sector lobbying of bureaucratic state agencies to alter the structure of accounting, accountability and regulation …

not investigated the impact of natural calamities like flood and drought on accounting choices. This paper makes an … original contribution to the accounting literature by documenting evidence on the extent to which an act of nature, over which … management has little or no control, can influence accounting choices. …

were less optimistically biased. In addition, firms having more directors with accounting expertise on their boards and …