This paper empirically tests the relation between a firm's degree of accounting conservatism and its level of operating … accounting conservatism which is recently proposed by Wang, O hOgartaigh and van Zijl (2010), who argue that a firm optimally … selects a degree of accounting conservatism in order to signal its own operating risk to the capital market. Consistent with …

This study examines the relation between narrative risk disclosures and accounting conservatism by utilizing the SEC … hypothesize that RFDs likely affect firms' financial reporting choice in accounting conservatism in two ways, the substitutive … effect and the stimulative effect. On the one hand, RFDs may substitute for conservatism by revealing important information …

paper shows that therefore conservatism measures based on models of the asymmetric relationship between earnings and … extending conservatism models. This finding offers a partial explanation of why large firms are less conservative since firm … size and having defined benefit plans are positively correlated. Furthermore, extending conservatism models with dummy …

This paper studies how religion influences corporate accounting conservatism choice. Accounting conservatism is a …' accounting conservatism choice in two contradictory ways. On one hand, religion calls for risk aversion, which predicts that … religion would enhance corporate accounting conservatism. On the other hand, religion, as a social norm, potentially impacts …