It has been documented that investments in Research and Development (R&D) are associated with increased errors and inaccuracy in earnings forecasts made by financial analysts. These deficiencies have been generally attributed to information complexity and the uncertainty of the future benefits...

This Internet Appendix (IA) contains three sections: The first section provides variable definitions (Section IA1), the second section outlines the development and estimation of the overbidding measure, as well as reports summary statistics and estimation results (Section IA2), and the third and...

Accountants, and to a lesser extent also (tax) lawyers, have been arguing for decades now on the content and practical consequences of the True and Fair View Principle. This papers tries to demonstrate that: i) True and Fair View is nothing different from what lawyers already know under...

This paper simultaneously examines, for the first time, the determinants of external audit fees of UK companies drawn from the quoted sector (Main Market, the Alternative Investment Market and Ofex), and the unquoted sector (public and private limited companies). The paper also provides new...

Objective - The Kingdom of Majapahit was a phenomenal civilization in the Indonesian history. Accounting was then practiced in the everyday life of the kingdom. The purpose of this study is to explore the accounting practices of debt-receivable accounts during the Majapahit Kingdom era of 1350...

In an effort to make audit reports more informative to investors, the U.K. recently passed a new audit reporting standard that requires auditors to disclose the risks of material misstatement (RMMs) that had the greatest effect on the financial statement audit. Using short-window market...

This study investigates the macroeconomic consequences of firm-level accounting conservatism. Consistent with conditional conservatism extending to the aggregate level, I demonstrate that annual estimates of aggregate corporate profits and gross domestic product compiled by the U.S. Bureau of...

I explore the incidence, amounts, disclosure and potential sources of bargain purchase gains reported by an Australian sample of firms during 2013-15. I find that 7.58% of the acquirers reported bargain purchase gains during this period. The median gain as a percentage of consideration...

To combat tax avoidance by multinational corporations, the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development introduced country-by-country reporting, requiring firms to provide tax authorities with a geographic breakdown of their profitability and activity. Treating the introduction of...

We examine the subsidiary- and group-level determinants of IFRS adoption by unlisted UK firms. Many unlisted firms are part of large conglomerate groups. For these firms, decisions about reporting practices are expected to be made at the group-level. Consistent with this hypothesis, we find that...