, it is believed that earnings management from legitimate accounting choices to fraud that violates generally accepted … accounting principles, is common in the mainland. The purpose of this study is to identify the most frequently used earnings …

of outside directors and institutional ownership concentration and to explore the relative roles of accounting‐ and stock … accounting performance. This is consistent with institutional investors using a richer set of information than that contained in … reported accounting earnings. Research limitations/implications – Further research may examine the effect of board monitoring …

decisions made by the auditors and management in the Adelphia accounting scandal. Findings – The paper finds that accounting may …

, especially in the area of audit reliability. However, results also indicate that although the introduction of accounting scandal …

has improved under the new accounting regime, especially for companies with non‐Big 4 auditors. Originality/value – Prior …

/methodology/approach – The paper analyses all the Italian listed companies that from 2002 to 2010 were subject to accounting enforcement actions … effective mechanism in detecting financial reporting fraud. The results show that firms committing accounting fraud have a lower … problem that impacts much of the board literature. Originality/value – This paper extends the accounting literature related to …

Purpose – The purpose of this study is to examine the impact of public accounting firms' mix of service revenue on … Accounting Report on top public accounting firms by revenue, an OLS regression model is applied by regressing revenue per partner … public accounting firms' productivity. However, the proportion of other services revenue, other than tax and management …

of an accountant to legitimising the character of accounting. This arguable conclusion is supported by a case study in … accounting firms. Research limitations/implications – The paper uses secondary and documentary data and is informed by conceptual … social values with changes in legitimisation and the COE to show shifts in accounting practices like the recent practice of …

Purpose – The purpose of this study is to expand upon accounting literature that highlights the benefits of hardiness … in the accounting environment. Accordingly, the relationship between hardiness and accounting task performance is … produce positive outcomes in the accounting environment. Accounting educators and firm leaders should understand how the trait …

important in their choice of accounting firms. The results indicated that accounting firms contemplating advertising emphasise … size of accounting firms. Differences in demographic characteristics based on presence or absence of previous public … accounting experience, age and educational level were found to have no effect on finance managers′ perceptions. The findings …