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We examine the cost-effectiveness, from the shareholders' perspective, of the accounting standards issued by the FASB …
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. Accounting researchers have attempted to assess the quality of IFRS using different methods and criteria. While we are skeptical … statements prepared in accordance with international financial reporting standards (IFRS) without reconciliation to U.S. GAAP … of drawing direct conclusions about the SEC's proposal based on this research, there is adequate evidence that both IFRS …
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We examine the cost-effectiveness, from the shareholders' perspective, of the accounting standards issued by the FASB …
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do: it places specific restrictions on what constitutes admissible accounting standards. The purpose of our effort is to …
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We provide evidence on the long standing concern on auditor conflicts of interest from providing non-audit services (NAS) to audit clients by using rarely explored NAS fee data from 1978-80 Using this earlier setting, we find cross-sectional evidence of improved earnings quality when auditors...
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How do firms repair their reputations after a serious accounting restatement? To answer this question, we review firms …
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's public statements on what constitutes good accounting, governance and investing practices and (ii) whether these practices … preferred accounting, disclosure and compensation policies, but unlikely to follow the board-related governance practices that …, Buffett does not appear to be especially influential in the subsequent accounting, governance and investing decisions of …
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earnings, even though they are adhering to generally accepted accounting principles. The economic magnitude of the …
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We examine the association between CEO reputation (proxied by the extent of press coverage) and the quality of the firm's earnings (proxied by two accruals-based measures). We test three explanations for an association between these constructs: the efficient contracting hypothesis suggests that...
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We propose that earnings management is driven by the prevailing investor demand for earnings surprises. Managers cater to investors by inflating earnings in periods when investors react optimistically to positive earnings surprises relative to negative earnings surprises and report more...
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