Currently, businesses face an information disclosure approach involving the triple bottom line (social, environmental, and financial). This paper aims to investigate the relationship between corporate social responsibility (CSR) information and financial reporting quality (FRQ). We argue that...

This paper examines accounting restatements from two perspectives. First, we examine the market reaction to restatement filings, using both returns and volume measures. We document that the earnings impact and whether a firm discloses the restatement through an 8K filing provides the most...

The Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 (SOX) proscribes so-called “affiliated hires” of financial executives. More specifically, SOX requires that firms wait at least one year before hiring an individual recently employed as a member of the firm’s external audit team. The intent of the regulation...

Recent studies and some policy experts have posited that dividends indicate higher quality earnings. In this study, we test this conjecture by comparing the dividend policies of firms accused of accounting fraud to those of firms not accused of accounting fraud. Specifically, we examine whether...

In-process research and development is the value allocated to incomplete research and development projects in acquisitions treated as purchases, and charged to expense by the acquirer at the acquisition date. Researchers have documented the benefits to acquiring companies from large IPRD...

Our study examines the circumstances of non-GAAP financial reporting by 492 U.S. companies that announced restatements from 1995 to 1999. We analyze the occurrence and resolution of litigation over restatements; and, we explore the role of accounting items in bringing and resolving this...

This study examines whether audit committee and board characteristics are related to earnings management by the firm. A negative relation is found between audit committee independence and abnormal accruals. A negative relation is also found between board independence and abnormal accruals....

In this paper, we empirically examine the relationship between two audit committee characteristics - the composition (expertise and independence) and size of the audit committee - and the quality of financial reporting. We show that after controlling for firm size, board composition, a measure...

Managers exercise considerable discretion over how they announce an accounting restatement in a press release. Some firms issue a press release that discloses the restatement in the headline (high prominence). Others provide a press release with a headline on a different subject (for example,...

This paper introduces a cross-country law and finance analysis of the misreporting behavior in the hedge fund industry in terms of smoothing returns so that a fund consistently generates positive returns. We find strong evidence that international differences in hedge fund regulation are...