Information relevance advisory services offer growth opportunities for accountants in CPA firms, but we know little about the types of knowledge needed to provide high quality advice. In a two-stage experiment, accountants with different management and public accounting experience (that we...

Many researchers have claimed that costing systems that provide materially more accurate or precise cost reports have a strict value-enhancing effect on decisions (i.e., Cooper 1988, 1995; Cooper and Kaplan 1991; Christensen and Sharp 1994; Rogers, Comstock and Pritz 1994; Swenson 1995; Gupta and King 1997)....

This paper contrasts educational reforms in New Zealand and the UK exploring the role of accountability in processes of management control. The paper focuses on the use of performance measurement in schools. Performance evaluation in the UK is arguably, individualised, in New Zealand an...

This paper has an English version and can be downloaded from: "http://ssrn.com/abstract=1799605" http://ssrn.com/abstract=1799605En este trabajo se muestra cómo encontrar la estructura óptima de capital y el valor con un endeudamiento constante y variable período a período, cuando la tasa de...

A perplexing yet persistent empirical finding is that individuals assess probabilities in words and in numbers nearly equivalently, and theorists have called for future research to search for factors that cause differences. This study uses an accounting context in which individuals are commonly...

This study examines voluntary intellectual capital reporting (ICR) in Egyptian companies' annual reports with a view to understanding ICR practice as well as eliciting the barriers that might impact the development and implementation of IC indicators in Egyptian setting. The study is an...

SUBJECT AREAS: Corporate Finance, Valuation, Capital Budgeting, Investment Policy, Economic Value Added, EVA, Market Value Added, MVA, Net Present Value, NPV, cash flows, free cash flows real free cash flowsThis technical note studies Economic Value Added, EVA. First, a conceptual framework...

We experimentally examine how employees' employment horizons (long or short) and the performance measures in their incentive contracts (forward-looking or contemporaneous) affect employee effort allocation and performance. Consistent with economic theory, we find that the decision-influencing...