This paper investigates whether the recent clustering of defined benefit (DB) pension plan freeze announcements is motivated at least in part by accounting concerns due to the Financial Accounting Standards Board's (FASB) pending adoption of Statement of Financial Accounting Standards No. 158...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine whether the significant clustering of defined benefit (DB) pension plan freeze announcements during 2001-2006 is motivated at least in part by accounting concerns due to the Financial Accounting Standards Board's pending adoption of Statement...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine whether the significant clustering of defined benefit (DB) pension plan freeze announcements during 2001‐2006 is motivated at least in part by accounting concerns due to the Financial Accounting Standards Board's pending adoption of Statement...

Two elements of corporate governance — the strength of ethical executive leadership and the internal audit function (IAF hereafter) — provide guidance to accounting managers making decisions involving uncertainty. We examine the joint effect of these two factors, manipulated at two levels...

In the case, David Johnson is cast as a young professional, someone happy to have found a full-time position with great career prospects during difficult economic times. The reader meets David when he is still new in his job and flattered that his boss, Good Grains' Controller Rebecca Carey, has...