This study presents a hereto unpublished one-act play that was used in the teaching of advanced accounting seminars at the London School of Economics and Political Science in the 1960s. The original author of this play, Harold C. Edey, is one of the intellectual forefathers in the development of...

Over the past two decades, most tax research has focused on examining the level of firms' effective tax rates (ETRs) (i.e., tax avoidance or tax minimization); limited attention has been paid to other aspects of tax strategies. However, relatively few firms pay exceedingly low taxes, which has...

This paper investigates Elmer G. Beamer's (1909-2000) activities at the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants during a thirty-year period beginning in the 1950s, using a theoretical lens from the sociology of professions literature. Beamer was born in Cleveland, Ohio, in 1909 and...

This study uses insights from tax practitioners and tax authorities to define and develop an ex-ante estimate of tax risk that is independent of common tax outcomes studied in the literature. Validation tests confirm that our tax risk measure (1) captures the predictable and unpredictable...

We inform the policy debate on whether management earnings guidance fosters managerial myopia by examining whether firms providing earnings guidance exhibit less firm innovation. At the core of the debate is whether guidance impedes long-term value creation, and evidence on the association...

Alvin R. Jennings (1905-1990) was a rare breed of an accountant. He was trained as a practitioner and rose to become a managing partner at Lybrand, Ross Bros. & Montgomery, but he kept a constant watch on the academic field of accounting research. Jennings served on the influential American...

This article examines the challenges faced by an Australian accounting academic, R. J. Chambers, in the 1950s, in breaking into the accounting research community; at that time almost entirely located in the United States and the United Kingdom. For academics outside the networks of accounting...

Objective – The implementation of integrated reporting (IR), which is a composite of financial and non-financial information, in one single report makes financial reporting more comprehensive and more transparent. Transparent information in IR gives annual reporting of family firms a higher...

Objective – The purpose of this research is to identify the relationship between corporate performance, Good Corporate Governance (GCG), and corporate characteristics on Islamic Social Reporting disclosure in Indonesia.Methodology/Technique – A quantitative approach is applied in this...

Objective – This research aims to obtain the empirical evidence on the influence of dividend policy, income tax, firm size, profitability, and leverage on income smoothing.Methodology/Technique – In this research, income smoothing is proxied with the Eckel index and logistic regression is...