Prior research shows that financial reporting quality (FRQ) is positively related to investment efficiency for large U.S. publicly traded companies. We examine the role of FRQ in private firms from emerging markets, a setting in which extant research suggests that FRQ would be less conducive to...

We document time varying investor sentiment for corporate social responsibility (“CSR”) performance. We show that announcements of CSR activities generate positive abnormal returns during periods when investors place a valuation premium on CSR performance. In addition, we find that firms...

Forecasting financial statements and completing comprehensive financial analysis constitutes a considerable challenge for entrepreneurs. Students in various entrepreneurship, finance and accounting courses also face this challenge. This paper presents a spreadsheet template that assists...

The measurement of profit depends on the concepts of capital maintenance used by the company in preparing its financial statements. The IASB Framework offers the option of choosing between two concepts of capital maintenance: financial capital and physical capital. This study highlights the...

This paper examines the association between managers’ incorporation of consumer sentiment news in their forecasts and firm performance. We find that firms with revenue forecasts that incorporate U.S. consumer sentiment news to a smaller extent perform worse subsequently. The association is...

It is well established that firms that undertake high levels of capital investment relative to their scale of operations, as measured by total assets, sales, or similar criteria, tend to have lower subsequent stock returns than firms with the opposite characteristic. Intuitively, this finding is...

This note deals with the simplified case of a principal (e.g., a firm's board of directors) which delegates execution of an economic activity to a business unit (or a subsidiary firm) managed by a manager. It is assumed that the manager has no control over the cash flows injected into the unit...

Prior research shows that financial reporting quality (FRQ) is positively related to investment efficiency for large U.S. publicly traded companies. We examine the role of FRQ in private firms from emerging markets, a setting in which extant research suggests that FRQ would be less conducive to...

We study factors affecting micro, small and medium-sized enterprises (MSMEs) receiving loans and the effect of these loans on MSMEs performance. We study two types of loans – a new type based on cash flows and a traditional-style loan based on collateral. We use unique surveys of MSMEs from...

This paper examines the influence of cash flow on the relationship between net working capital and firm performance. The paper employs unbalanced panel data regression analysis on a sample of 6,926 non-financial small and medium enterprises in the United Kingdom for the period from 2004 to...