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...

Demand for international capital increased with widespread privatization efforts in the 1980s and 1990s stemming from the collapse of Communism in the former Soviet Union and Eastern Europe and from economic reform in China, Latin America, and Southeast Asia. The Sarbanes-Oxley Act, perceived as...

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...

The increasing relevance of fair value as measurement adversely to historical cost put on the agenda of the main accounting standard setting bodies the determination of it is value and afterly its register. This has been shown by recent standard's amendments and issues that enable or even demand...

Success in publishing accounting research often requires success in multiple coauthoring relationships. Further, the number of coauthored papers in accounting (as well as most other fields of research) has steadily increased. Given the importance and popularity of coauthoring, our paper provides...

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...

This paper analyses the generational accountability of the global commons, grounded in an environmental ethical responsibility framework heuristic of analysis of the responses by key institutional actors affecting, and affected by, the BP Gulf of Mexico Oil spill (“GOMOS”). This is the first...

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...