The quality of financial reporting shows how informative the accounting numbers are for decision-making. Because business outlook can influence financial reporting quality, this study examined predictable, moderately predictable and unpredictable business outlooks. The study randomly selected...

We investigate for a positive relation between growth and the aggressiveness of accounting choices. The motivation is that this relation is an unexamined and very general implication from most existing theories and types of accounting choice. Note that the firms' decision to use aggressive...

We investigate for a positive relation between growth and the aggressiveness of accounting choices. Our motivation is that this relation is an unexamined and very general implication from most existing theories and types of aggressive accounting choice. Note that the firms' decision to use...

This research investigated the effects of three instructional design formats on learning introductory accounting. In accordance with cognitive load theory, it was predicted that students who would learn with a guided self-managed instructional design format would outperform students who would...

The concept of materiality, originating in the accounting domain and applied in the auditing domain, is an essential tool for improving audit quality. A renewed interest in materiality research emerged in Australia after submitting Exposure Draft no. 243 by the Australian Accounting Standards...