The size and composition of the 10-K file have changed dramatically since the mandatory adoption of XBRL. We re-examine 10-K file size as a readability proxy by decomposing 10-K file size into its main components, which include XBRL, processed XBRL (a twin to XBRL that allows XBRL information to...

We examine whether the media has an indirect corporate governance effect on financial reporting quality (FRQ) that operates through auditors. This occurs because greater media coverage can magnify an auditor’s business risk by exposing the auditor to more potential litigation and reputation...

The interpretation of stock price synchronicity in relation to price informativeness is controversial in the literature. We examine how firm-specific variation relates to the quality of a firm's information environment by considering two auditor characteristics—audit firm size and audit firm...

Our study addresses whether integrated report quality, IRQ, is positively associated with greater price informativeness and the extent to which the greater price informativeness is diminished when firms have higher proprietary costs of disclosure. In integrated reports, firms integrate financial...

Audit clients' investment opportunity sets (IOS) include firm-specific opportunities that are unique to the client, as well as opportunities generalizable to the client's industry and opportunities even more generically available to all firms. Prior research does not examine the variation in...

We examine whether the practice of integrated reporting (IR) can reduce agency problems between managers and investors, resulting in lower agency costs. We construct a sample of firms that voluntarily use IR in practice, drawn from 35 countries, and find that firms that apply IR practice more...