The following article adapts and consolidates two comment letters submitted last spring by a group of twenty-two professors of finance and law on the SEC’s proposed climate change disclosure rules. The professors reiterate their recommendation that the SEC withdraw its proposal as legally...

One consequence of the shift to fair value measurement is the emergence of voluntary disclosures in audited financial statements that question the reliability of mandated fair value information. We refer to these disclosures as reliability disavowals and address three questions: Are fair value...

This study examines how organization complexity influences financial reporting complexity (FRC) and information environment. The results suggest that the positive association between organization complexity and FRC is much more nuanced than portrayed in the literature. An organizationally...

Mandatory existence disclosure rules require an organization to disclose a policy's existence, but not its content. We examine policy adoption frequencies in the year immediately after the IRS required mandatory existence disclosure by nonprofits of various governance policies. We also examine...

U.S. and international accounting standards have mandated recognition and/or disclosure of fair value information for an increasing number of items. One consequence of this shift has been the emergence of voluntary disclosures in audited financial statements that explicitly question the...