This paper investigates the role of visual attention in managerial judgments during balanced-scorecard performance evaluations. Using the Locarna eye tracker to establish the amount of time managers spent focused on visual cues, we found that managers who look more at strategically-linked...

This study explore whether publicly held companies manipulate the restatement announcement arising from material errors and/or fraud. It analyzes the information provided in the press and in the 8-Ks (8K-PR) by applying Information Manipulation Theory. Results indicate that companies...

By analysing auditors' SOX 404 reports from 2004 to 2011 we find that after 2006 Big 4 reporting of both information technology control weaknesses (ITWs) and non-ITWs in reports with ITWs decreased significantly. This change appears to reflect Big 4 reporting practices in response to a change in...

We explore the association between a company's investments and the tone of its peers' MD&A disclosures; we ask whether the direction and the strength of this association is affected by product market competition. We find that the direction of the association can differ according to whether...

This paper investigates accounting conservatism's effects on accrual persistence and accrual-related future stock returns. We find conservatism significantly increases accrual persistence and accrual-related future stock returns and more so in high accrual firms. We attribute this to...

In this paper, I empirically test the conservatism effect of Barberis, Shleifer and Vishny (1998). Conditioning on a shock to quarterly earnings, firms ranking in the top (bottom) earnings shock quintile exhibit substantial price momentum over the next three-month periods following the initial...

The use of more or less optimistic language in corporate disclosures has been the subject of increased interest in the academic literature. We add to this stream of research by examining the manager-specific component in the tone of earnings-announcement related conference calls. We find that...

The historical development and size of China's audit market provides an opportunity to investigate important questions regarding the functioning of the market for audit services that are difficult, if not impossible, to test in other globally established markets. The purpose of this study is to...

Subsequent to preceding literature research, access to multiple case studies was gained through a snapshot questionnaire. Sixteen semi-structured interviews of heads of Internal Audit (CAE) and members of Senior Management (SM) in the same organization were conducted. The interviews were...