The association of a country's investor protection regime with the quality of reported earnings is examined for a large sample of firms from 42 countries. Three attributes of earnings are evaluated: the magnitude of the association of a country's investor protection regime with the quality of...

This paper identifies, and then examines, whether institutional structures can be used to explain the occurrence of accounts manipulation. Specifically, it investigates whether legal origin, level of corruption, the extent of press freedom, State's ownership of enterprises, and the State's...

Multinational Banks operate on a wider economic and geographical spectrum and are faced with vast challenges in each economic territory. There is however general observation that multinational banks do not make proper disclosures on portfolios operating in hyperinflationary economies as outlined...

Religion has been found to have a significant impact on the economic well-being of individuals, families and by extension financial economy the world. One's level of income and wealth has been found to be significant in determining a person's financial literacy. This paper therefore seeks to...

Interest in this topic followed examination of new data discussing several antecedent proposals for establishing an international academic accounting association in the period 1966–1983, culminating in the 1984 formation of the International Association for Accounting Education and Research...

We examine the impact of COVID-19 on changes in firm value, and the moderating role of firm-level sustainability performance on this relationship. We find that firms domiciled in countries where the COVID-19 impact is more devastating experience greater decline in firm value. The negative impact...

Purpose – This study examines the association of environmental sustainability, governance factors and national culture with COVID-19 impact. We seek to draw implications for thinking and researching environmental accountability at the higher level than the...

The aim of this study is to investigate the impact of enforcement (greater monitoring of auditors and more regulatory scrutiny of financial reporting) on accounting quality under IFRS using measures of earnings smoothing, managing towards earnings targets, timely loss recognition and value...

Using income smoothing and its two components – the informational component and the garbled component – we examine whether and how the time-oriented tendency embedded in languages influences corporate financial reporting decisions. Separating languages into weak- versus strong- future time...

Using a multinational sample of companies from different industries together with the five cultural dimensions of Hofstede (2001) as proxies for national culture, we analyze how cultural differences across countries affect the organization and work of internal audit functions (IAF). We use a...