The structure of the public accounting industry has been the subject of debate for decades. Both empirical and theoretical research has reached contradictory results and conflicting conclusions regarding which model of industrial organization describes the structure of the public accounting...

We conduct a series of semi-structured interviews with controllers and chief accounting officers from large public and private companies—over half are Fortune 500—to identify the current issues faced by the controllership function. We map these issues into the Institute of Management...

Empirical researchers in economics, finance and accounting grapple with a fundamental problem of gathering a representative sample of firms to test various theories that abound in the literature. Several well established data vendors provide a wealth of information toward this endeavor. However,...

Standard setters put much effort into the development of 'better' financial reporting standards, i.e. standards that more accurately capture the economic substance of business activities. However, the more sophisticated accounting treatments caused by new standards, and growing complexity of...

We examine the geographic component of the audit service investments in REIT industry. Because REIT firms have strong incentive for information transparency and high audit quality, we expect that geographic distances, as a proxy for information flow, between REIT firms, their auditors, and the...

Spanish Abstract: El cash flow operativo y el cash flow de negocio: ¿Qué es el cash flow operativo? ¿Qué es el cash flow de negocio? ¿Cuál es la relación entre el cash flow operativo y el cash flow de negocio? ¿Cuándo coinciden? ¿Cuándo el cash flow operativo es mayor que el cash flow...

Spanish Abstract: Cómo hacer previsiones financieras cuadrando el balance con crédito bancario: ¿Cómo calculamos los activos fijos previsionales, las existencias, las cuentas por cobrar, la deuda a largo plazo, las cuentas a pagar, el patrimonio y la deuda? Efecto del crecimiento, los días...

This paper includes the following topics:1. The Return On Equity (ROE): What is ROE? How do we know if the ROE of a company is good or not? What should be the relationship between ROE and cost of equity(Ke)? What are the ROEs of the different industries?2. The Return On Capital Employed (ROCE):...

Initial Gross Domestic Product (GDP) announcements are important economic signals that convey information on the state of the economy but contain substantial estimation error. We investigate how GDP estimation errors affect firms' real decisions and profitability. Consistent with theoretical...

In this paper, I argue that there is a bug in Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (both US and IFRS) which results in flawed financial statements. Fortunately, this bug is like a bad piece of SQL code – no effort is required to write new code to fix the bug, just delete the bad code.I...