In Japan, financial statements are disclosed under the timely disclosure regulations of securities exchanges before the completion of an external audit and disclosed again after the completion of an external audit under the Financial Instruments and Exchange Act. In each case, any errors...

Inattentional blindness, also known as perceptual blindness, is the phenomenon of not being able to see things that are actually there. This concept is not covered in traditional accounting classes in general and forensic accounting and auditing in particular. We discuss why forensic accountants...

Financial restatements are costly, but frequent, events and many firms restate several times. This paper asks why rational managers engage in misreporting, in spite of the costly consequences. We present a simple extension to the Fischer and Verrecchia (2000) model, which provides testable...

This study investigates the relationship between managers' abnormal disclosure tone and opportunistic behaviour in managerial accounting, grounded in agency theory. Using a quantitative ex-post-facto design, we analysed data from 1411 annual reports of 143 companies listed on the Tehran Stock...

This paper provides additional evidence on earnings management via the deferred tax asset valuation allowance account (VAA). Earlier publications that do not find evidence of earnings management via the VAA examine contractual incentives using broad samples. A more recent publication finds...

The role of followers in financial statement fraud has not been widely examined, even though these frauds typically involve collusion between followers and destructive leaders. In a study with 140 MBA students in the role of followers, we examined whether two follower personality traits were...

Results have been mixed regarding whether, and how much, board of director connectedness is beneficial to firm value. Some prior research shows that overly busy directors are ineffective monitors, but these same “busy” directors can be valuable sources of information and other resources. For...

We argue that CEOs use narrative disclosure tone to assuage career concerns. In particular, we predict that more talented CEOs use a more optimistic tone at the beginning of their tenures to build a reputation of strong performance ability. We run our tests on a large sample of US firms' 10-K...

The purpose of this study is to investigate the difference in the CSR perceived by the actors in the Indonesia economy represented by managers working in state-owned companies (BUMN) and non state-owned companies. The unit of analysis in this study is Indonesian managers. The population of this...

Despite the importance of audit committee independence in ensuring the integrity of the financial reporting process, recent research suggests that even when audit committees meet regulatory independence requirements, certain factors, such as undue influence by the CEO over the selection of the...