In 2012, one in four federal securities class-action lawsuits filed in the U.S. involved Chinese Reverse Merge companies (CRMs). However, these lawsuits sometimes have encountered difficulties in court due to insufficient direct evidence of accounting fraud. We propose a new method for fraud...

Entwicklung der Anforderungen an die Rechnungslegung kapitalmarktorientierter Unternehmen zur bilanziellen Abbildung eines erworbenen Goodwill aus einer Business Combination -- Würdigung der bilanziellen Abbildung eines erworbenen Goodwill aus einer Business Combination vor dem Hintergrund der...

This study examines how and why investors change the use of their information sources in valuation between book value and earnings after mergers and acquisitions (M&A) in both pre- and post-SFAS 141(R) periods. We find that investors generally put less weight on earnings but more weight on book...

This paper investigates how accounting standards (AS) convergence influences Chinese firms' overseas mergers and acquisitions (M&As) and shows that this convergence significantly promotes Chinese firms' overseas M&As. Specifically, we find that both the probability of success and the value of...