We propose a new input-based measure of financial statement comparability (FSC) that captures the degree of overlap in the financial statement line items reported by industry peers. FSC quantifies the extent to which peer firms have similar economic events and accounting transactions as...

Using unique survey data from Great Place to Work® Institute, we investigate the association of intra-organizational trust (i.e., employees' trust in management) with three aspects of financial reporting: accruals quality, misstatements, and internal control quality. We find that trust is...

This study investigates the combination of textual and numerical accounting disclosures, which are often examined in silos by prior research. Focusing on three inherently complicated footnotes, we capture the amount of text used to explain numbers with the ratio of words to numbers. Using...

We propose a new measure of accounting reporting complexity (ARC) based on the count of accounting items (XBRL tags) disclosed in 10-K filings. The preparation and disclosure of more accounting items is complicated because it requires greater knowledge of authoritative accounting standards. This...