Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to investigate how fair value reporting and increased managerial discretion under the new goodwill accounting affect the asymmetric timeliness of earnings;, i.e. accounting conservatism. Design/methodology/approach – Various empirical models are applied...

Casual observations suggest that bidder managers sometimes pay more than the economic value of target in mergers and acquisitions. This paper provides two empirical findings associated with overpayments in acquisitions among publicly traded U.S. firms during the period of 2003-2011 using the...

This study examines the effect of Statement of Financial Accounting Standards No.142 (SFAS 142) on the ability of goodwill to predict future cash flows. SFAS 142 allows substantial managerial discretion and leads to a significant magnitude of economic impact on financial statements, resulting in...

Using Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) performance scores from KLD STAT, we investigate whether CSR performance affects information asymmetry. We find that both positive and negative CSR performance reduce information asymmetry. Moreover, we find that the influence of negative CSR...

We examine whether classification shifting is associated with stock price crash risk. We predict that crash risk is positively associated with the reversal of core earnings of the shifters. We find that classification shifting is positively associated with future stock price crash risk even if...