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evidence that Big 4 audits are not associated with the degree of conditional conservatism. Finally, we show that reporting …
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This paper examines the consequences of Financial Reporting Quality (FRQ) on Corporate Performance, using three proxies … estimator proposed by Arellano and Bond (1991), highlights the positive effect of financial reporting quality (FRQ) on financial …
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I argue that external financial reporting quality has at best a 2nd order effect on firm value of U.S. publicly traded … companies and that attempts to improve a firm's external reporting quality has a 3rd order effect on these firms' value …. Recognizing that external financial reporting quality is at best a 2nd order effect on firm value imposes an important external …
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further evidence to the current literature relative to the role of institutional vs. firm-specific factors on reporting … incentives and therefore, on the financial reporting decisions. Changing the accounting system is not enough to improve the … financial reporting decision and therefore, the degree of accounting quality. Particularly, we focus a set of variables related …
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This study investigates bank income smoothing, focusing on the effect of corruption on the extent of income smoothing by African banks. I find that banks use loan loss provisions to smooth positive (non-negative) earnings particularly in the post-2008 crisis period and this behaviour is reduced...
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This paper examines the effect of earnings management on financial leverage and how this relation is influenced by institutional environments by employing a large panel of 25,798 firms across 37 countries spanning the years 1989 to 2009. We find that firms with high earnings management...
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Information technology (IT) is all-pervading, and as an infrastructure, it is likely to mold institutional quality. As such, we examine whether IT availability and use moderate the relationship between country-level institutional quality and firm performance. Using the Economic Freedom Index of...
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discretion practices around the world and that the influences of these factors on earnings discretion are conditional on each …
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literature on the quality of financial reporting and the importance of the protection of investors from actions that managers …
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