This study examines the impact of the California Nonprofit Integrity Act (2004) on CEO compensation costs in affected organizations. Contrary to the stated objective of the Act that executive compensation be “just and reasonable,” we find that CEO compensation costs for affected nonprofits...

Industry, firm, CEO, CFO, and time effects are likely to have a significant influence on a firm’s financial reporting quality (FRQ). However, our understanding of the extent to which each of these factors affects different facets of FRQ remains limited. In this paper, we employ hierarchical...

Managers have great discretion in determining management forecast characteristics, but little is known about how managerial incentives affect these characteristics. In this paper, we examine whether managers strategically choose the precision of their earnings forecasts for self-serving...