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In this study, I investigate whether managers' capitalization of intangible expenditures conveys incremental information, about the amount and timing of future cash flows, to expensed intangible expenditures. I find the association between capitalized SD (Software Development) expenditures and...
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include conventional accounting-based measures that reflect firm performance net of executive pay expense. We analytically … show that when firms evaluate CEO performance relative to peers, the coefficients on such net accounting measures are … of CEO incentives. Intuitively, net accounting measures include executive compensation, and the additional covariances …
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importance of implementing HC metrics into a strategic performance management system to deliver performance from a company …’s human capital. It contributes to a cross-disciplinary (human resources, management control and strategy) perspective on …
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and reward the performance of management boards. We use a difference-in-difference approach to account for (a) changes in …
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We examine the effect of IFRS on the use of accounting-based performance measures for evaluating and rewarding managers … contracts. We provide indications that IFRS add “noise” to accounting numbers which, based on optimal contracting theory, makes … value” accounting (FVA), which potentially makes accounting numbers more value-relevant, but also more volatile and …
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We examine boards of directors' subjective adjustments to objective performance measures in executive incentive contracts. Using a unique hand-collected sample of adjusted earnings per share measures used to determine executives' annual bonuses, we provide large-sample evidence that subjective...
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compensation contracts. In this paper, I highlight one weakness of relative performance evaluation. When earnings management is …
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Over the past decades, companies have faced increasing pressures to provide information about CSR. However, firms differ in the extent to which they communicate their CSR-related efforts to their stakeholders (henceforth, “CSR disclosures”) and incorporate CSR-based performance measures in...
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We model relative performance evaluation (RPE) when a Chief Executive Officer (CEO) has the power to opportunistically influence the design of RPE by choosing the weight on an index-based peer group or by customizing the selection of peers comprising a peer group. A powerful CEO compares the...
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This study examines the effectiveness of performance measurement system (PMS) for the principal's decision making in a … context of foreign subsidiary management. In the midst of the current competition, global organizations are faced with …
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