Credit ratings can be viewed as a summary statistic that captures various elements of a firm's capital structure. They incorporate a firm's debt ratio, the maturity and priority structure of its debt, as well as the volatility of its cash flows. However, regressions of credit ratings on firm...

According to accounting and auditing standards, external auditors and management must both independently monitor goodwill balance for any impairment. Therefore, goodwill impairment may contain valuable incremental information about the CEO's ability which the board can utilize for CEO retention...

We make use of hand-collected data on a large sample of entrepreneurial firms to analyze the effect of venture capital (VC) backing on the management quality of firms going public and the effect of both VC-backing and management quality on IPO variables. We hypothesize that VC-backing will be...