Purpose: The study examines whether corporate governance moderates the relationship between CEO compensation and earnings management. Design/methodology/approach: The study uses 1,800 firm-year observations from 2005 to 2010 and employ multiple regression analyses and other sensitivity tests....

Purpose The study examines the mediating role of accounting information quality (AQ), a proxy for firms' information risk, in firms' business strategy and the cost of equity (COE) nexus to highlight how AQ provides a mechanism through which a company's business strategy affects its COE....