This paper investigates the association of corporate reporting and executive network centrality, which measures an executive’s relative position in a massive network consisting of outside corporate leaders. I find that high-centrality chief executive officers (CEOs) and chief financial...

This study explores aspects of chief accounting officers (CAOs), a relatively new corporate executive title that firms add to C-suites. We provide descriptive data on CAO attributes and examine the determinants of CAO appointment and their role in corporate disclosure. Our results suggest that...