The issue of determinants of voluntary XBRL adoption has drawn considerable attention from the academic community around the world. In the U.S., the voluntary XBRL adoption process evolved under the SEC-administered XBRL Voluntary Filing Program (VFP). A number of papers have attempted to study...

Under current Canadian securities regulatory requirements, public companies are able to choose whether to have their interim financial statements reviewed by external auditors on a quarter by quarter basis, but they must disclose when there has been no review performed. This differs from US...