In this study, we investigate the impact of countrywide adoption of IFRS on the liquidity of domestic versus international firms listed in a stock market. We consider two competing forces affecting liquidity from IFRS adoption: enhanced comparability of firms within industries that span...

We re-examine the question why large positive and large negative book-tax differences (LPBTDs and LNBTDs) are associated with lower earnings persistence (Hanlon, 2005). Specifically, we investigate whether lower earnings persistence of LPBTD firms and LNBTD firms, relative to firms in the middle...

Previous literature investigates links between corporate social responsibility (CSR), earnings management (EM), and firm performance (FP) but has looked at pair-wise relations (CSR-EM, CSR-FP, and EM-FP) for one-way effects without considering endogeneity among the variables. We examine these...

This article investigates the relation between corporate dividend policy and tax avoidance. The payment of dividends facilitates the transfer of corporate resources, usually cash, from the company to its shareholders. An important aspect of dividend policy is that it is used to address agency...

We investigate quality of sustainability reporting by developing a multi-level research design which incorporates variables that are proxies for general contextual factors, broad-based corporate characteristics, and micro-organizational level characteristics. Previous research has found that...

Following the massive wave of high-profile accounting scandals at the beginning of this millennium, there has been an apparent consensus within the U.S. policy-making circles that the existing U.S. accounting standards are the main reason for these failures. Many assert that U.S. GAAP is...

From 2008 to 2011, the Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) developed a series of bulletins distributed to its internal auditors, alerting them to the fact that the adoption of international financial reporting standards (IFRS) may affect corporate tax reporting. In this study, we review 10 CRA IFRS...