We examine how compensation of chief executive officer (CEO) and corporate governance practices affect earnings management behavior in an emerging economy, Pakistan. Using 1836 firm-year observations from 260 firms listed in KSE for period 2005 to 2012, we do not find that CEO compensation has...

Four concepts of cash flow are discussed and compared: simple cash flow, operating activities cash flow, net operating profit after taxes, and free cash flow. The differences between these concepts are shown to be very large. Issues connected to terminal value are presented. Finally, the idea of...

Life-Cycle Reviews would improve management/board capital expenditure decisions and fundamentally upgrade investor communications. The key is a reality-based analysis of the firm's major business units grounded in the life-cycle framework. The focus is on why business-unit reinvestment should...

The adoption of a photovoltaic system has positive environmental effects, but the main driver of the choice in the industrial and commercial sector is economic profitability. Switching from acquisition of energy to production of energy is an investment with costs (e.g. leasing annual payment,...

We show that the standard notion of residual income (RI) does not fulfill additive coherence. This gives rise to ambiguities and inconsistencies. The pitfall resides in the capital charge, which blends a non-market value with a market rate. We solve the problem by using a capital charge based on...

Based on a unique arrangement of trading and disclosure times around earnings announcements in the Chinese stock market, we provide evidence of a striking overnight-intraday disparity in terms of the reaction to earnings news. Specifically, we find that the overnight period exhibits a strong and...

Enterprise Risk Management (ERM) is a program that manages all firm risks in an integrated framework. In this study, we provide the first empirical evidence of how ERM affects firms’ day-to-day operations. Using hand-collected ERM data and inventory information, we examine whether ERM adoption...

This study examines the impact of non-financial disclosure (NFD) on firms' labor investment efficiency. We analyze a broad sample of firms located across 44 countries and the period 2006–2019. Using regression analysis, the association between abnormal employment growth and environmental,...

Prior research shows that financial reporting quality (FRQ) is positively related to investment efficiency for large U.S. publicly traded companies. We examine the role of FRQ in private firms from emerging markets, a setting in which extant research suggests that FRQ would be less conducive to...

Practitioners and some academics use potential dividends rather than actual payments to shareholders for valuing a firm’s equity. We underline the differences between the two methods and present some arguments supporting the thesis that firm valuation with potential dividends overstate the...