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...

Small acquirers enjoy announcement period returns that are significantly higher than announcement returns for larger acquirers, but small acquirers significantly underperform after the acquisition is consummated. We investigate why the market appears to “get it wrong” at the announcement of...

We revisit the question of whether the academic accounting profession is in decline. We use data gathered from Hasselback directories of accounting faculty from 1974 to 2016 as our primarily data source and confirm prior results suggesting a decrease in the number of assistant accounting...

The purpose of this paper is to provide advice to accounting doctoral students and new accounting Ph.D.s on managing the review process. We also hope that our advice and suggestions will assist more experienced accounting faculty in their research endeavors. We offer suggestions from the point...

From an agency perspective, leverage may have a positive effect on firm performance by limiting managers' ability to allocate resources to unproductive uses, as well as increasing pressure on them to perform well. Consequently, we might expect leverage to have a positive impact on acquisition...

This study compares four broadly available industry classification schemes in a variety of applications common to capital market research. SIC codes have been available since 1939, but are being replaced by NAICS codes. The Global Industry Classifications Standard (GICS)SM system, jointly...

In response to concerns over the viability of the academic discipline of accounting we investigate trends in accounting research by examining papers published in six top accounting journals from 1960 to 2007. We use citations made by accounting papers as a proxy for their antecedent ideas and...

This paper investigates whether future performance suffers when a firm deviates from an estimated optimal cash level. Results show that one year ahead RNOA and stock returns are decreasing in the level of deviation from an estimated optimal for both firms holding insufficient cash and firms...