We examine whether grammatical violations (GVs) in annual financial reports (10-Ks) provide a timely signal of financial reporting quality. To the extent that GVs capture the time, effort, and resources devoted to the preparation of financial filings, we predict that GVs are correlated with the...

This study examines the impact of cross-firm financial statement comparability on theregulatory oversight of financial reporting quality. Consistent with the notion that cross-firmcomparable accounting systems enhance the regulators' ability to evaluate financial reportingquality, we find that...

Available at SSRN: "https://ssrn.com/abstract=3357733" https://ssrn.com/abstract=3357733Both the International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRSs) and the codified accounting standards (ASC) for the US GAAP categorize hedging relationships as falling into several buckets. The two buckets of...

Prior studies find that delayed earnings announcements tend to communicate unfavorable news, and investors consequently react negatively when firms delay earnings announcements. However, these findings do not explain why investors discount delayed earnings, even after controlling for the...

In this study, we examine how a CFO's social ties with non-CEO senior managers in the same firm affect the likelihood of financial restatements. We categorize social ties as either professional or personal, and find that the two types of ties have distinct effects. Our findings show that CFOs'...

We examine the impact of information processing costs on firm-level investment efficiency by exploiting the SEC's eXtensible Business Reporting Language (XBRL) mandate as a natural experiment. To the extent that XBRL adoption reduces information processing costs and enhances the external...

This study investigates the combination of textual and numerical accounting disclosures, which are often examined in silos by prior research. Focusing on three inherently complicated footnotes, we capture the amount of text used to explain numbers with the ratio of words to numbers. Using...

This paper examines whether engagement auditors have a distinguishable effect on clients' financial statement comparability, incremental to the effect of the audit firms and offices. Our basic premise is that each individual auditor has a unique style of interpreting and implementing accounting...

We investigate the effect of CFO narcissism, as measured by signature size, on financial reporting quality. Experimentally, we validate that narcissism predicts misreporting behavior, and that signature size predicts misreporting through its association with narcissism. Empirically, we examine...

We hypothesize current financial reporting standards contribute to “money illusion,” in which investors overemphasize nominal cash flows and underemphasize effects of discount rates on valuation. We test our predictions in two experiments using a pool of professional and nonprofessional...