We investigate the valueâ€relevance of capitalised R&D on the balance sheet, and the extent to which R&D accruals improve the association between accountingâ€based measures of firm perfor Mance and capital market returns for Australian listed companies. This is a regulatory setting where...

This paper demonstrates that (time- and context-specific) ‘political costs' were instrumental in the entry of deferred tax accounting into Australian GAAP in the early 1970's—a period in which high profits and low corporate taxes coincided in a volatile political mix. Politically...

Although recent research documents a positive relation between corporate transparency and the proportion of independent directors, the direction of causality is unclear. We examine a regulatory shock that substantially increased board independence for some firms, and find that information...

We investigate <link rid="b27">Gompers, Ishii, and Metrick's (2003)</link> finding that firms with weak shareholder rights exhibit significant stock market underperformance. If the relation between poor governance and poor returns is causal, we expect that the market is negatively surprised by the poor operating...