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This research explores the use of control rhetoric in CEO letters between the pre and post Sarbanes Oxley periods and examines financial statement users' perception of internal controls and company performance from the CEO letter. We compare the amount of control rhetoric included in CEO letters...
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statement within the chosen financial reporting framework …
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We examine whether Governmental Accounting Standards Board (GASB) financial statement disclosure influence local governments' economic decision-making. To do so, we exploit a recent GASB standard that differentially changed the disclosure requirements for pension obligations for county...
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activity across reporting models. We examine whether publicly available financial statement information is incrementally useful …
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Empirical research from the first years following SOX suggests that firms improve accruals quality following restatements, but both the number and materiality of restatements have declined since then. This decline may affect firms' responses to restatements and hence we re-examine whether...
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Prior literature is mixed as to whether smoothing through accruals indicates higher or lower financial reporting … reporting incentives of tax expense, we provide new evidence on this debate by examining the link between smoothing of GAAP … financial restatement and tax-related financial reporting fraud. Further investigation reveals that these associations are …
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Integration of the world economies has mandated the global inception and recognition of IFRS not only for large companies but also for SMEs. We examine wide-ranging real-life IFRS practices experienced in the world while devoting a particular focus to Turkey. We show that although the countries...
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Financial Reporting Standards (IFRSs) and the codified accounting standards (ASC) for the US GAAP categorize hedging … of derivatives and hedging lead to creating serious distortion of reporting actual transactions, to combining hard and … remedy the resulting distortion in financial reporting, significant revisions of certain accounting standards are sorely …
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Conventional and commonly held wisdom with respect to the adoption of International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS …) is that they lead to improved financial reporting quality and comparability and thereby favorable economic consequences … reporting standards in terms of volume and quality of disclosures in financial statements. This review also obtains that IFRS …
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The significance and the manipulative nature of related-party transactions (RPTs) render transparent disclosure necessary and relevant for investors who infer firm value from accounting disclosures. However, the full disclosure of RPTs may not be cost effective because not all of the information...
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