Auditors use professional judgment to collect and evaluate evidence to issue an opinion on the fairness of a business entity’s financial statements. Prior research finds that international auditing firms should consider cultural aspects when planning an audit examination and that the...

This paper tests how macroeconomic conditions affect the value relevance of book and tax income. Based on regression coefficient estimates, more than 8% in the value relevance of book income is dependent on the interaction with a proxy for the macroeconomy. For a possible policy change where tax...

This study takes on two divergent notions concerning derivatives; that they are dangerous instruments (Warren Buffet) versus the concept that they help to reduce risk (Allen Greenspan). These notions are assessed from the perspective of the recent Financial Crisis in which derivatives were...

This paper presents a statistical analysis confirming the former empirical findings that positive differences between the growth rates of P-Score and Z-score appears in financial statement data of companies involved in major financial fraud. The paper examines firms that engaged in fraud in the...

This paper examines the effects of culture and other economic factors on a country’s decision to implement International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS). This work extends the previous literature by using a methodology that assigns an implementation score in different countries and...

Studies of post-SOX restatements have examined the cause of the increase and have documented the association with internal controls in a negative light. In general, restatements result from internal control problems because internal controls are the first line of defense for financial statement...

This paper extends the accounting academic literature on pension funding strategy by looking at a more recent data set, directly examining contributions to defined benefit pension plans, and considering the effect of changing economic conditions over time on pension plan funding. I find that the...

International Accounting Standard No. 1 was released in 2007. The standard required publicly traded companies to separately report comprehensive income in the financial statements. International Accounting Standard No. 1 prescribed two alternative formats for the presentation without mandating...

This paper extends the agency cost literature by examining whether managerial ownership, leverage and audit quality are associated with higher performance of companies traded on the Malaysian ACE (Access, Certainty, Efficiency) Market. The sample consists of 82 companies listed on the Malaysian...

The safe harbor provisions have increased over the years, following the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act (PSLRA) of 1996 and the Securities Litigation Uniform Standards Act (SLUSA) of 1998. The objective is to encourage more earnings guidance by managers. However, a number of firms like...