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Accounting information is used for both internal and external purposes. The internal information is mainly directed at … of accounting information. More specifically, the semantic aspects of information are glaringly absent. That is, its … of the control measures that should be taken to satisfy the quality demands of the end users of accounting information …
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This study investigates whether opportunistic earnings management affects the value relevance of net income and book value in determining stock price. We document a decrease in the value relevance of earnings in the year of an equity offering for a group of firms that exhibit ex post evidence of...
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Khan and Watts (2009) develop a firm-year measure of conditional conservatism, labeled C_Score, that builds on the Basu (1997) asymmetric timeliness (AT) measure. However, recent research documents an asymmetric relation between lagged earnings and current returns, indicative of bias in the Basu...
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demand for accounting conservatism when suppliers or customers have bargaining advantages over it that enable them to dictate … customers are associated with its accounting practices and also support the contracting explanation for accounting conservatism …
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This study develops, implements, and evaluates a multi-label text classification algorithm that extracts textual information from the annual reports of all publicly listed USA companies. Specifically, the proposed system can automatically identify 25 types of frequently mentioned risk factors in...
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We investigate a pervasive voluntary disclosure practice -- managers including balance sheets with quarterly earnings announcements. Consistent with expectations, we find that managers voluntarily disclose balance sheets when current earnings are relatively less informative, or when future...
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We explore how the readability of annual reports varies with earnings management. Using the Fog Index to measure readability (Li 2008), and focusing on the management discussion and analysis section of the annual report (MD&A), we predict and find that firms most likely to have managed earnings...
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This paper examines the relationship between annual report readability and firm performance and earnings persistence. This is motivated by the Securities and Exchange Commission's plain English disclosure regulations that attempt to make corporate disclosures easier to read for ordinary...
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In this paper I attempt a taxonomy of the extant accounting literature on disclosure and suggest as categories …
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accounting conservatism) and for an aggregated measure for the previous three proxies of FRQ. The empirical evidence shows that … of IFRS, the accounting system used in the country and the influence of the economic cycle. …
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