We investigate for a positive relation between growth and the aggressiveness of accounting choices. The motivation is that this relation is an unexamined and very general implication from most existing theories and types of accounting choice. Note that the firms' decision to use aggressive...

We investigate for a positive relation between growth and the aggressiveness of accounting choices. Our motivation is that this relation is an unexamined and very general implication from most existing theories and types of aggressive accounting choice. Note that the firms' decision to use...

This paper examines the relationship between annual report readability and firm performance. This is motivated by the Securities and Exchange Commission’s plain English disclosure regulations that attempt to make corporate disclosures easier to read for ordinary investors. I measure the...

The quality of financial reporting shows how informative the accounting numbers are for decision-making. Because business outlook can influence financial reporting quality, this study examined predictable, moderately predictable and unpredictable business outlooks. The study randomly selected...

Using a multi-stage filtering procedure based on both algorithms and human judgement, we develop a Chinese Financial Sentiment Dictionary (CFSD) with the hope to help advance textual analysis of Chinese documents in accounting and finance. There are 1,489 negative words and 1,108 positive words...