Purpose – The purpose of this research note is to examine the association between overvalued equities and audit fees in the USA. Design/methodology/approach – The paper employs a standard audit fee regression model incorporating proxies for overvalued equities and controls for other known...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to investigate the effect of audit quality on the market pricing of earnings and earnings components in China. Design/methodology/approach –The paper measures audit quality using three tiers of audit firm designation, namely International Big 4 audit...

Purpose – This paper seeks to examine the predictive ability of disaggregated earnings in forecasting future profitability conditional on keiretsu affiliation in the context of Japan. Design/methodology/approach – Industry-adjusted future profitability measure is regressed on current...

Purpose – This paper seeks to examine the relationship between corporate governance and the value-relevance of accounting information in Australia. Design/methodology/approach – This paper uses board, audit committee and external audit related variables to proxy for corporate governance....

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to investigate the impact of different categories of ownership concentration on corporate voluntary disclosure practices in New Zealand. Design/methodology/approach – The study applies panel data regression analysis to a sample of New Zealand listed...

Purpose – The aim of this paper is to examine empirically the managerial earnings management practices of financially distressed firms, and to consider whether these practices changed during the recent global financial crisis. Although corporate distress has been a topic of research interest...