I would like to welcome readers to the Journal for the May Issue. The Journal continues to progress with a strong inflow of submissions and a concerted push for us to keep turnaround times to a minimum. Our current manuscript turnaround time is under 8 weeks on average despite an increasing new...

This article reports the results of a study of the underpricing of initial public offerings under the Corporations Law. The authors commence by outlining a number of theories that have been advanced to explain the persistent underpricing of the issuing company's shares. The authors then examine...

Though empirical evidence strongly supports the role of short-term operating accruals in improving operating cash flows as a measure of performance, there is little support or consensus with respect to the effect of long-term accruals. We provide evidence that long-term accruals do reduce timing...

We investigate the value-relevance of capitalised R&D on the balance sheet, and the extent to which R&D accruals improve the association between accounting-based measures of firm performance and capital market returns for Australian listed companies. This is a regulatory setting where management...

Though empirical evidence strongly supports the role of short-term operating accruals in improving operating cash flows as a measure of performance, there is little support or consensus with respect to the effect of long-term accruals. We provide evidence that long-term accruals do reduce timing...

The relative importance of country- and industry-specified factors vis-à-vis company-specific financial-statement-based information in explaining equity valuation multiples in an international setting is examined. Both country-specific effects via previously identified variables and an...

Prior research (Behn et al. 2008) suggests that higher audit quality is associated with increased accuracy and reduced dispersion in earnings forecasts issued by sell-side analysts. We extend this work to consider how audit quality impacts the information environment in which analysts operate....