We compare the timeliness of U.S. GAAP impairments to the timeliness of IFRS unrealized losses for investment property. Using the reporting of economic losses by U.S. and U.K. real estate firms around the time of the financial crisis, our results show that unrealized losses are substantially...

Spanish Abstract: Uno de los temas que genera controversia en el ámbito fiscal en México, es la no proporcionalidad y equidad de la contribución al gasto público, que va en contra del artículo 31, fracción IV, de la Constitución Política de los Estados Unidos Mexicanos, que establece que...

Accounting is imperfect, leading to errors in financial reporting. This paper links accounting errors to firms' incentives to bias reported earnings. We hypothesize that while errors discourage reporting bias by lowering earnings' value relevance, they also incentivize bias by providing...

Errors and bias are both inherent features of accounting. In theory, while errors discourage bias by lowering the value relevance of accounting, they can also facilitate bias by providing camouflage. Consistent with theory, we find a hump-shaped relation between a firm's propensity to engage in...

The paper discusses the improvements which a semi-autonomous revenue agency (SARA) must make to its records to meet fiscal and financial accounting obligations. SARAs are legal entities, such as a service or a department, which are required to prepare accrual records that may diverge from a...

There is little knowledge about financing and accounting activities within the early colonial New Zealand settlements. This paper investigates the financing, accounting, and accountability practices instituted by Nelson settlers between 1842 and 1852, when setting up education for the children...

In this paper, we examine the monitoring role of government customers in emerging markets, a setting where public procurement is significant but the procurement institutions are weak. In these countries, financial statements certification could be an important mechanism for a private firm to...

We propose and find that enhanced regulatory transparency facilitates alignment between private and public enforcement. Utilizing the SEC's 2004 decision to publicly disclose its comment letters, we explore the actions of a public enforcer (the SEC) and a private enforcer (shareholder...

This paper examines economic consequences of a 2006 Securities and Exchange Commission regulation that mandated public firms to disclose their governance policies on related-party transactions (hereafter RPTs). Employing hand-collected RPT data for S&P 1500 firms, we find that the initiation of...

Purpose – The aim is to explore whether principles-based versus rules-based accounting standards have an effect on measures of financial reporting quality and earnings management strategies. Design/methodology/approach – This study uses a firm-year-specific variable that captures the extent...