Income smoothing is a longstanding practice under the more general category of earnings management. As the name suggests, it consists of smoothing out the fluctuations of the income series. This article examines the association between the ownership and control structure, level of corporate...

This research investigated the impact that environmental disasters have on the volume of socio-environmental disclosure and investments of Brazilian companies from 1997 to 2012. News on environmental disasters was collected through a search engine, the companies responsible for the disasters...

The forecast of public revenue is a key part in the budget process, becoming an instrument that supports public managers for making decisions regarding an appropriate budget execution. This research aims to determine the effectiveness of the Koyck model in predicting public revenues of the most...

This study aims to present a diagnosis of the dimensions and factors associated with self-regulated and self-determined learning strategies of students in Accounting Graduate Programs in Brazil. We surveyed 516 graduate students (383 master's and 133 doctoral students) and applied two...

Purpose – This research aimed to study the relationship between Enterprise Risk Management (ERM) and performance improvement. Design/methodology/approach – A questionnaire was used as an instrument of data collection that was passed to managers of nonfinancial companies listed among the 500...