We develop an integrated framework to financial reporting decisions in family-controlling firms. Our model contends that in these firms, financial reporting decisions (i.e. earnings management and voluntary disclosure) are driven by a diverse set of family owners' motives that can be synthesised...

Al fine di aiutare a comprendere il ruolo rivestito dagli interlocking directorship nel contesto istituzionale italiano, il presente contributo ne analizza empiricamente l’influenza sulla qualità degli utili di bilancio. Adottando un campione di imprese italiane quotate tra il 2000 e il 2004,...

A recent article on Key Risk Indicators (KRI) issued by COSO (Beasley et al., 2010) is the starting point of this paper. Our aim is to discuss the relevance of business processes in the design and implementation of KRIs. We analyse the reasons of the systematic underestimation of business...

Forward-looking disclosures are a crucial source of information when valuing a company. We study the effect of forward-looking disclosures on analysts' forecast properties, in particular accuracy and dispersion. Our sample includes all the non-financial firms from Italy, Germany, France and...

I sistemi di controllo interno (SCI) orientano l’azione del management e contribuiscono alla protezione degli interessi degli investitori (e degli altri stakeholder). La natura di meccanismi di governo interni all’organizzazione, tuttavia, impedisce la diretta osservazione dei SCI da parte...

In this paper we investigate whether, and how, corporate management strategically uses disclosure to manage the perceptions of different organizational audiences. In particular, we examine the interactions between the FIAT Group and three of its key organizational audiences—the local press,...