Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine whether the significant clustering of defined benefit (DB) pension plan freeze announcements during 2001-2006 is motivated at least in part by accounting concerns due to the Financial Accounting Standards Board's pending adoption of Statement...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine, in the context of movement towards a fair-value based pension accounting standard, the value relevance of both recognized and disclosed pension accounting information. Design/methodology/approach – Using hand-collected data from Fortune 200...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to investigate the impact of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOX) on market-based measures of earnings quality and cost of capital. Design/methodology/approach – The paper uses empirical data to determine measures for the market's perception of earnings quality...

This paper investigates productivity growth, technical progress, and efficiency change for a group of the 56 largest CPA firms in the US from the period 1996-1999 through the period 2003-2006, where the former preceded, and the latter followed, enactment of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOX). Data...