Aim/purpose - This paper aims at investigating whether the International Financial Reporting Standard (IFRS) 15 Revenue from Contracts with Customers implementation in Poland has affected earnings management that uses discretion in revenue recognition to avoid losses and earnings decreases....

Unbiased accounting is supposed to provide perfect economic information to decision makers. We identify three notions of unbiased accounting in the literature, promoting return-, cost-, or value-disclosure as guiding principle and evaluate them based on the criterion of informational...

Motivated by regulatory assertions that the purpose of SOX was to restore investor confidence in the securities markets, we examine changes in the stock market reaction to earnings restatements following the implementation of SOX in order to evaluate whether the Act's reforms have had a...

Recent studies have questioned the validity of the Basu asymmetric timeliness of earnings (AT) as the proxy for accounting conservatism. An important basis for the criticism is the negative association observed between AT and market-to-book ratio (MB), another proxy for conservatism. Drawing...

This teaching guide is based on a comprehensive survey as well as in-depth interviews of Chief Financial Officers (CFOs). We ask the CFOs about the definition and drivers of earnings quality, with a special emphasis on the prevalence and detection of earnings misrepresentation. CFOs believe that...

The paper investigates information content of net income, other comprehensive income items, and pseudo comprehensive income for Japanese firms. The relative information content test demonstrates net income is one of the most dominant income measures, and the incremental information content test...

We examine the effect of the adoption of the new revenue recognition standard (ASC 606) on earnings quality and the role of earnings in the debt market. We find that ASC 606, a transition from a rules-based to a principles-based accounting standard, decreases earnings predictability, which is...

This paper examines how news items released throughout the previous quarter help investors predict and understand earnings. It focuses on how earnings aggregates transactions and how this aggregation may lead to information loss. Through the disclosure of these news items that reveal these...

This study investigates the effect of a security regulation that occurs concomitantly with International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) adoption on the information content of earnings announcements in Italy. To identify the effect of this regulation, we use a treatment (i.e., Italy) and a...

This study examines the incremental information in loss firms' non‐GAAP earnings disclosures relative to GAAP earnings. Using a large sample obtained through textual analysis and hand‐collection, we posit and find that loss firms' non‐GAAP earnings exclusions offset the low informativeness...