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London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) were instrumental in the development of British accounting thought in … accounting profession and academia to the point where, in the early 1970s, half of all full-time accounting professors in the … address issues of accounting education, measurements, and theory, and they are accompanied by editorial comments that put the …
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We propose a new measure of readability, the Bog Index, which captures the plain English attributes of disclosure (e.g., active voice, fewer hidden verbs, etc.). We validate this measure using a series of controlled experiments and an archival-based regulatory intervention to prospectus filing...
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changes in the value relevance of accounting information before and after the mandatory adoption of IFRS in Germany and the UK … simultaneous addition of accounting and macroeconomic variables in an extended model, which indicates a significant rise in the … accounting variables and share prices in common law countries like the UK. Nevertheless, the implications of our findings lie in …
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' accounting information. We study companies' response to a one-month shortening of the statutory filing deadline and hypothesise … that companies using accounting to communicate financial information to outside capital providers will be timelier in … purposes. Our results indicate that companies producing accounting information for reporting to outside investors publish their …
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This paper investigates the extent to which the timeliness of UK private companies' accounting information reflects … behaviour is largely driven by regulatory deadlines, companies conjectured to be producing accounting information for reporting …
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Prior studies show that senior managers (i.e., CEO, CFO, and board members) face financial and vocational pressure to meet earnings expectations, but relatively little is known about how financial reporting pressure impacts the average employee. Using employee satisfaction ratings from...
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, yet little is known about the role of the accounting profession in preparing and validating the financial statements of … employing a larger accounting firm. Given the dwindling number of private companies opting for audits, our findings contribute … to debates on the role of the accounting profession in enhancing private company financial reporting quality …
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scientific management practices (time study, variance analysis, etc.) reached a level in practice that many accounting historians …
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