The papers in this volume were published through a registration-based Editorial Process (REP). Authors submitted proposals to gather and analyze data; successful proposals were guaranteed publication as long as the authors lived up to their commitments, regardless of whether results supported...

This document includes the complete set of free-text responses to our survey on the 2017 Journal of Accounting Research Conference, Registered Reports of Empirical Research. We solicited responses from all authors who have published in six well-regarded accounting journals over the last decade....

Purpose – The purpose of this study is to shed light on the threats to quality in mixed methods accounting research, wherein quantitative and qualitative approaches are combined in data collection, analysis and interpretation. Design – Our paper is framed according to the following three...

We analyze a procedure common in empirical accounting and finance research where researchers use ordinary least squares to decompose a dependent variable into its predicted and residual components and use the residuals as the dependent variable in a second regression. This two-step procedure is...

Amazon Mechanical Turk (MTurk) is an increasingly popular source of experimental subjects for accounting research due to its convenience and low cost (relative to traditional laboratories). However, MTurk presents challenges related to statistical power and reliability. These challenges are not...

This paper examines the approaches accounting researchers adopt to draw causal inferences using observational (or nonexperimental) data. The vast majority of accounting research papers draw causal inferences notwithstanding the well-known difficulties in doing so. While some recent papers seek...

We analyze a procedure common in empirical accounting and finance research where researchers use ordinary least squares to decompose a dependent variable into its predicted and residual components and use the residuals as the dependent variable in a second regression. This two‐step procedure...

The selection of controls in model design is essential to convincing empirical accounting research. However, we note that the theory for determining which factors should be “controlled” is often underappreciated, especially given the complexity of accounting data. In a sampling of articles...

We examine whether empirical results using text-based sentiment of U.S. annual reports depend on the underlying context, within documents, from which sentiment is measured. We construct a clause-level measure of context, showing that sentiment is driven by many different contexts and that...

We present empirical evidence on the temporal graduation trends in managerial, financial and tax accounting as well as audit and (corporate) finance in Germany. Overall, we observe a positive trend, which reverses as of lately. Accounting and finance lag behind the positive trend of business...