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accounting at similar rates and have comparable writing quality to their non-rule counterparts. Overall, these findings are …
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value' by issuing deceptive accounting reports. Incentive support for disinformational activity comes through forms of … compensation that allow corporate insiders to profit extravagantly from temporary boosts in a firm's accounting condition or … for hiding adverse information. It is ironic that what are called accounting ethics' fail to embrace the profession …
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This paper comprehensively reviews Accounting for Income Taxes (AFIT). The first half provides background and a primer …
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In many countries of the world the co-residence of young adults aged 25-34 with their parents is not uncommon and in some countries the savings rates of these age groups exceed those of the middle-aged contrary to the standard model of life-cycle savings. In this paper we examine the role of...
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We hypothesize that, in their annual accounting reports, insurers allocate premiums and losses from multistate policies … multistate insurers managing their annual accounting reports to shift premiums (losses) to more (less) favorably taxed states …
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This paper examines managerial compensation in an environment where managers may take a hidden action that affects the actual earnings of the firm. When realized, these earnings constitute hidden information that is privately observed by the manager, who may expend resources to generate an...
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Based on this framework, we find that a Future Fund portfolio that included (amongst other potential investments) domestic nominal securities and equities of selected countries would reduce overall balance sheet risk
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Managers appear to manipulate firm earnings when they characterize pension assets to capital markets and alter investment decisions to justify, and capitalize on, these manipulations. We construct a measure of the sensitivity of reported earnings to the assumed long-term rate of return on...
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Life insurers use accounting and actuarial techniques to smooth reporting of firm assets and liabilities, seeking to …-guaranteed surplus. Our goal is to illustrate how accounting and actuarial techniques for this type of financial contract shape …
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We study financial reporting and corporate governance in 218 companies accused of price fixing. These firms engage in evasive financial reporting strategies, including earnings smoothing, segment reclassification, and restatements. In corporate governance, cartel firms favor outside directors...
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