The aim of this paper is to present some considerations about the (market) reality and the accounting. The considerations are some kind of a discussion, how accounting systems are linked by the feedback mechanism with managers. Various aspects of modern markets are presented. In particular, the...

Accounting information is used for both internal and external purposes. The internal information is mainly directed at the control of business processes; the external on reporting financial results and the financial position of the organization. While existing frameworks for controlling and...

Using accruals as a proxy for financial reporting quality, Peni and Vahamaa (2010) and Barua, Davidson, Rama, and Thiruvadi (2010) provide evidence that female Chief Financial Officers (CFOs) are more moral than male CFOs. Using 2,048 U.S. firm-year propensity score matching samples from...

Purpose: The goal of the paper is to analyse the motives that determine the propensity of companies of both developed and developing countries to engage in earnings management on the basis of accounting treatment of R&D costs.Methodology: The final sample analyzed in the paper includes 47...

This paper replicates the results of the survey of experienced executives reported in Section IV of Seybert (2010). Seybert retracted the survey data from the originally published article due to concerns about the source of the data. I survey 79 experienced executives to elicit their beliefs...

Recent theoretical and empirical studies suggest that blockholders (shareholders with ownership ≥ 5%) exert governance through the threat of exit. Blockholders have strong incentives to gather private information and sell their shares when managers are perceived to underperform. To prevent...

In this article, we study accounting quality among small and medium enterprises (SMEs) in the French context. Using a sample of 925 firms observed over the 2002-2010 period, we compare the earnings management practices between public and private SMEs. We find evidence that private SMEs...

This paper examines whether firms that act socially responsible and have favourable board characteristics engage in a more transparent financial reporting. In particular, the first question is whether firms with high corporate social responsibility (CSR) engagement exhibit less earnings...