A significant amount of earnings management (EM) research has treated managers' EM decision processes as a “black box”. The objective of this study is to begin to open the black box though examining the relative importance of economic factors as well as ethical considerations in managers' EM...

We quantify the effects of easy-to-read disclosure documents on firm value by analyzing shareholder reports of closed-end investment companies in which the company's value can be estimated separately from the value of the company's underlying assets. Using a copy-editing software application...

Of the business enterprises operating in the Philippines, 99.6% are micro, small, and medium enterprises (MSMEs). The Magna Carta of Small Enterprises (Republic Act 6977) governs these MSMEs. However, they are still subject to laws on the declaration of income and other regulations as imposed by...

Our study examines the tax reporting behaviors of firms just before they file for bankruptcy (“prebankruptcy firms”). Specifically, we investigate whether pre-bankruptcy firms engage in more aggressive tax reporting, in comparison to non-bankruptcy firms. We also investigate whether the...

Despite debate on the desirability of rules-based standards, no studies provide evidence on why accounting standards take on rules-based characteristics. We identify and test five theories from prior research (litigation risk, constraining opportunism, complexity, transaction frequency, and age)...

Effective for fiscal years beginning after December 15, 2006, FIN 48 significantly altered uncertain tax benefit (UTB) recognition and disclosure requirements relative to its predecessor standard, FAS 5. We examine the effect of the new standard on audit pricing. We first document that...

This paper investigates (1) whether the corporate governance of firms with erroneous financial reporting differs systematically from that of non-error firms and (2) whether error detection is followed by improvements in the corporate governance of error firms. I apply a difference-in-differences...

We surveyed 194 experienced, nonprofessional investors to examine the relations between their perceptions of the frequency of financial reporting fraud, their use of financial statement information, the importance they place on conducting their own fraud risk assessments, and their use of fraud...

Available at SSRN: "https://ssrn.com/abstract=3357733" https://ssrn.com/abstract=3357733Both the International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRSs) and the codified accounting standards (ASC) for the US GAAP categorize hedging relationships as falling into several buckets. The two buckets of...

We investigate whether mandatory recognition of previously disclosed off-balance sheet items affects corporate capital structure decisions. Specifically, we use the introduction of the Statement of Financial Accounting Standards No. 158 as a quasi-exogenous shock to financial reporting decisions...