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We ask whether the quality of internal information matters for investment decisions. We predict that investment is more sensitive to internal profit signals and less sensitive to external price signals when managers have higher quality internal information. Consistent with recent theoretical and...
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Plant managers generally have no direct marketing responsibilities, but they have control over product quality and customer service. I hypothesize that many firms evaluate these managers on profit since sales, a component of profit, convey information on plant manager’s performance on product...
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We examine whether it is incentives or standards that determine firms' financial reporting quality using a natural experiment in Taiwan. Before 2001, Taiwan's Company Act required private firms with capital levels exceeding a certain threshold to file and publish audited financial statements....
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accounting. That is, we expect that in addition to any insurance role, there is at least one component of an auditor's assurance … role that is valued for the mitigation of aggressive accounting. Our results support this prediction using two audit … qualifications provides further evidence of auditor reputation playing a mitigating role on the effect of aggressive accounting on …
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misreporting accounting information. Further, in a quasi-natural experiment that uses shifts in import tariffs to identify …. Our findings are robust across alternate measures of misreporting including restatements and accounting irregularities as …
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This paper explores some consequences for economic efficiency of creative accounting practices by merging companies. It … contracts relating pay to accounting profit.Ahead of takeover, prospective acquirers can flatter their earnings record in order … to secure the support of investors for stock-for-stock deals. During takeover, accounting devices are available to the …
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fundamentally new requirements of the Information Society, require the creation and study of new approaches to management accounting … in informational aspect. In general, modern management accounting should be able to form and provide information … relationships between elements of accounting and management systems, which enhances the evolution of their integrity and …
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misreporting accounting information. Further, in a quasi-natural experiment that uses shifts in import tariffs to identify …. Our findings are robust across alternate measures of misreporting including restatements and accounting irregularities as …
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The primary objective of this study is to construct a valid and reliable instrument to quantitatively measure the quality of internal audit function via level of conformance by internal auditors towards the International Professional Practice Framework (IPPF). Two separate pilot tests were...
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