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influences the amount that financial managers report for a contingent liability. Using an experiment with corporate controllers … managers are unaffected by placement. As a result, public company managers make higher liability estimates for recognized … versus disclosed liabilities. Their liability estimates are similar to those of private company managers for recognition but …
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We investigate the effect of CFO narcissism, as measured by signature size, on financial reporting quality. Experimentally, we validate that narcissism predicts misreporting behavior, and that signature size predicts misreporting through its association with narcissism. Empirically, we examine...
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In this study, we examine how a CFO's social ties with non-CEO senior managers in the same firm affect the likelihood of financial restatements. We categorize social ties as either professional or personal, and find that the two types of ties have distinct effects. Our findings show that CFOs'...
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Recent accounting research examines the impact of the individual style of corporate decision-makers on corporate accounting policies. Based on this line of research, we explore how a chief financial officer's (CFO) preference for accounting conservatism affects accounting quality. We provide...
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I study how increased internal control disclosure requirements mandated by the Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOX) affect annual corporate governance decisions regarding CFOs. Using non-CEO, non-COO executive officers as a control group, I find that CFOs of firms with weak internal controls receive lower...
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This study provides evidence regarding the importance boards of directors place on effective communication with the investor community by examining whether CEO and CFO compensation are related to the quality of the firm's financial disclosures. Using an index derived from analyst forecast...
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The 2006 SEC rule, by changing the definition of Named Executive Officers, mandates CFO compensation disclosure. Using this setting and a difference-in-differences research design, we study the real effects of CFO compensation disclosure regulation on CFO job performance. We hypothesize that the...
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This article deals with disclosure of associates and joint venture in financial statement. In May 2011 the IASB issued new standard IFRS 12 Disclosure of interest in other entities. This standard, compared with IAS 28 and IAS 31, requires to disclose more detail information about joint ventures...
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