Part A – Accounting and Financial Reporting -- Chapter 1: Introduction to Accounting for Inter-Corporate Investments -- Chapter 2: Main Issues in Purchase Accounting -- Chapter 3: More Issues in Purchase Accounting -- Chapter 4: Spin-Offs and Equity Carve-Outs -- Chapter 5: Special Purpose...

Firms should disclose information on material cyber-attacks. However, because managers have incentives to withhold negative information, and investors cannot discover most cyber-attacks independently, firms may underreport them. Using data on cyber-attacks that firms voluntarily disclosed, and...

We develop a theoretical framework that explains firms' reactions to new accounting standards, especially, those released by the FASB under its extended adoption policy. Our theory highlights the differences between recognized and disclosed accounting information, and provides a link between...

An important aim of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOX) was to reduce cost of capital by enhancing auditor independence. However, prior literature has argued that SOX has been ineffective in meeting this objective. We contribute to this debate by first providing evidence suggesting that auditor...

Financial analysis often involves decomposing variables into components, emphasizing the structured hierarchy among ratios. We distinguish between unconditional persistence (a variable's autocorrelation coefficient), and conditional persistence (the power of a variable's persistence to explain...