Prior US research indicates that acquiring firms pay an additional premium in acquisitions (i.e., pooling transactions) in which they do not need to amortise goodwill. The results of these studies however are subject to endogeneity problems as the accounting method choice and takeover premiums...

We investigate the content, timing and relevance of firms' narrative disclosure about effects of IFRS adoption in annual statutory financial statements and firm announcements to the stock exchange for 150 large listed Australian firms in the three year period surrounding adoption (which occurred...

In this paper we set forth a robust and generalized research design for investigating potential EM and other firm behaviors hypothesized to deviate from some expected value. The design is robust in that it relies only on conservative rank-based variables and utilizes binomial test statistics, in...

Purpose – This study aims to investigate in-depth, and explain the issues related to, the implementation of IAS/IFRS in an emergent country that recently adhered to the European Union, i.e. Romania.Design/Methodology/Approach – An institutional and structuration theory perspective is used to...

Universities, departments and academics are in quest for performance. Measuring performance means establishing and applying a ranking system which is usually finalised with a hierarchy. We endeavoured in this context to a study of the extant situation characterising the performance of the...

The concept of conditional conservatism has provided new insight into financial reporting and has stimulated considerable research since Basu (1997) developed it. While the concept encapsulated in the adage “anticipate no profits but anticipate all losses” is reasonably clear, estimating it...

The purpose of this paper is to study the impact of beating analysts' forecasts and the impact of analysts' forecast dispersion on the pricing of firms' credit default swaps (CDSs). CDS premium is the compensation required by investors for bearing firms' credit default risk. Sell-side analysts...

At present, ways to improve audit quality and auditing decisions are intensively being discussed worldwide by standard setters and researchers. Audit quality is mainly influenced by two factors the requirements of standard setters and the professional judgment of auditors. Especially the...

This paper identifies, and then examines, whether institutional structures can be used to explain the occurrence of accounts manipulation. Specifically, it investigates whether legal origin, level of corruption, the extent of press freedom, State's ownership of enterprises, and the State's...

This paper presents a research strategic analysis of 43 doctoral dissertations in management accounting published in Finland during the past twenty years (i.e., from 1990 to 2009). The results synthesize the research themes, methodological approaches and types of publications of the...