Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to investigate the impact of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOX) on market-based measures of earnings quality and cost of capital. Design/methodology/approach – The paper uses empirical data to determine measures for the market's perception of earnings quality...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to investigate the impact of the Sarbanes‐Oxley Act (SOX) on market‐based measures of earnings quality and cost of capital. Design/methodology/approach – The paper uses empirical data to determine measures for the market's perception of earnings...

Purpose – Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine whether audit committee members of the board prove to be better monitors if they are also on the compensation committee, as they would be more attuned to compensation related earnings management incentives....

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine whether audit committee members of the board prove to be better monitors if they are also on the compensation committee, as they would be more attuned to compensation related earnings management incentives. Design/methodology/approach – The...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to investigate the impact of certain audit quality attributes, namely auditor size, auditor industry specialization and auditor tenure on a client firm's cost of equity capital. Design/methodology/approach – The paper uses empirical data to construct a...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to investigate the way in which CEOs are shielded or rewarded for incurring R&D expenses. Strategic expenses such as R&D yield returns over a long period of time even though GAAP requires them to be written off in the period they are incurred. Going...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to investigate the way in which CEOs are shielded or rewarded for incurring R&D expenses. Strategic expenses such as R&D yield returns over a long period of time even though GAAP requires them to be written off in the period they are incurred. Going...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to investigate the impact of certain audit quality attributes, namely auditor size, auditor industry specialization and auditor tenure on a client firm's cost of equity capital. Design/methodology/approach – The paper uses empirical data to construct a...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine the relationship between productivity, firm strategy and bankruptcy risk. Design/methodology/approach – This paper uses data envelopment analysis to compute productivity of firms and uses archival data to empirically examine the relationship...