Despite the pervasive use of ethics training by companies, research in management accounting has not considered the effectiveness of such training in curtailing managers' misreporting. This study examines the effect of ethics training on misreporting as a reminder to raise the awareness of...

This paper uses a laboratory experiment to examine the effect of accountability pressure as a monitoring control tool to mitigate subordinates' propensity to create budgetary slack. The results suggest that budgetary slack is (lowest) highest when accountability pressure is (present) absent...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to investigate the impact of independent directors and ownership structure on voluntary disclosures of Vietnamese listed firms. Design/methodology/approach – Year‐ending 2008 annual report disclosures of 45 Vietnamese listed firms are analyzed....