This paper investigates the market consequences of sovereign accounting errors. Eurostat, a division of the European Commission, issues semiannual assessments of financial reports produced by the member states of the European Union (EU), and issues reservations that detail financial reporting...

Using a comprehensive data set of earthquakes in China, we show that investors perceive increased credit risk in quasi-municipal bonds exposed to devastating earthquakes, leading to a significant positive risk premium. Our study identifies that this bias is temporary and decreases as investors...

This study examines whether idiosyncratic risk significantly affects earnings quality in non-financial companies listed on the Indonesia Stock Exchange. Research on developing countries, especially Indonesia, which links idiosyncratic risk and earnings quality, has not been widely conducted....

This study seeks to understand the role of intellectual capital and capital structure in maintaining the financial performance and cultural sustainability of village credit unions in Bali, locally known as lembaga perkreditan desa (LPD), which is crucial in the funding of cultural and religious...

This paper examines the impact of cash holdings and board governance characteristics on companies' performance by Egyptian listed non-financial companies over the period 2013-2019. The researchers employed pooled ordinary least squares and two-step system GMM estimations to test their research...

This study examines the moderating influence of audit quality on the relationship between dividend payout and corporate financial performance in emerging markets. Further, it investigates if the COVID-19 pandemic influences the relationship between dividend payout and corporate financial...

The purpose of this study was to provide a comprehensive review of previous studies on management control systems (MCS). The study tries to evaluate the key aspects that research on MCS mentioned from 1970 to 2023. Using qualitative methods and VOSviewer software, the study collected and...

We examine whether the social media reaction to an important firm disclosure provides a signal of the quality of that disclosure and whether capital market participants’ reactions to the disclosure are consistent with the social media reaction. Specifically, we examine the sentiment of posts...

Regulators have expressed concern about high levels of immaterial information (i.e., information that fails to influence a current or prospective stakeholder) in annual reports. I examine the determinants of one component of disclosure materiality – the magnitude of quantitative annual report...

Exploring mandatory financial reporting frequency changes in the US from 1954 to 1972, we find that a mandatory increase in reporting frequency is associated with an increase in firms’ future earnings response coefficients (FERC). This effect is stronger for firms with higher sales seasonality...