We examine the association between country-level government quality and firms' choice of external auditors. Using a cross-sectional sample of 142,193 firm-year observations from 46 countries over 1998-2007, we show that the government quality of a country has a significant positive effect on the...

We examine the association between country-level government quality and firms' choice of external auditors. We use a firm's choice of a Big 4 auditor as a proxy for the demand for high-quality financial reporting. Using a cross-sectional sample of 142,193 firm-year observations from 46 countries...

Using the Miles & Snow (1978, 2003) strategy typology and a measure of strategy based on Bentley, Omar, & Sharp (2013) and Ittner, Larcker, & Rajan (1997), we investigate whether business strategy is associated with the quality of reported earnings. Our sample comprises 44,264 firm-year...

In this paper, we examine the monitoring role of government customers in emerging markets, a setting where public procurement is significant but the procurement institutions are weak. In these countries, financial statements certification could be an important mechanism for a private firm to...

The main objectives of recent audit market regulations are to (1) increase audit quality, (2) decrease audit market concentration, and (3) foster competition between audit firms. However, the empirical evidence on whether such regulations fulfill these goals is limited. We construct a unique...

We examine the association between country-level government quality and firms' choice of external auditors. We use a firm's choice of a Big 4 auditor as a proxy for the demand for high-quality financial reporting. Using a cross-sectional sample of 142,193 firm-year observations from 46 countries...

We investigate whether, and how, auditors price risks related to greenhouse gas emissions (GHG) for a sample of firms traded in the US that disclose their CO2 emissions data. Specifically, we assess whether auditors price CO2 physical and transition risks among multiple categories of emission...

The present paper discusses the role Global Reporting Initiatives in providing the structural framework for environmental accounting, reporting and communicating the environmental aspects of business organisations in Indian scenario and also explains how harmonisation of environmental accounting...

This paper investigates what we can learn from the financial crisis about the link between accounting and financial stability. The picture that emerges ten years after the crisis is substantially different from the picture that dominated the accounting debate during and shortly after the crisis....

The current study deals with the issues of archiving, storing the documents and the account books, analyzing the filling in and storage methods. The study highlights at the same time the conditions that must be fulfilled for their drawing up, for the archiving of the documents and of the account...