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Standard setters and regulators generally assume that making accounting easier to process leads to more efficient … obtain only if reducing complexity in accounting leads traders to acquire and process that information more readily, and then … information to more efficient markets. I test these causal links in an experiment by examining the effect of reducing accounting …
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implications of our findings for management accounting research and practice …
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In a real effort lab and online team production experiment we analyze individual effort under different conditions of individual accountability. In a repeated setting workers receive a distorted signal about their co-players' previous efforts. We vary the degree to which production can be...
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solely on financial accounting information. Moreover, the association between vocal dissonance markers and irregularity … restatements holds even after controlling for financial accounting and linguistic based predictors. Our results provide new …
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In Incomprehensible!, Wendy Wagner highlights a blind spot in the design of many legal programs: they demand that market players share as much information as possible, but neglect to demand that the information be conveyed comprehensibly. Wagner shows how the neglect of comprehensibility...
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We study optimal disclosure via two competing communication channels; hard information whose value has been verified and soft disclosures such as forecasts, unaudited statements and press releases. We show that certain soft disclosures may contain as much information as hard disclosures, and we...
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Relative to quantitative methods traditionally used in accounting and finance, textual analysis is substantially less …
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Relative to quantitative methods traditionally used in accounting and finance, textual analysis is substantially less …
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Our paper examines whether the implementation of KAM in auditors' reports affects managers' reporting behavior. In line with prior research in psychology, we argue that greater transparency through KAM sections lead to higher accountability pressure as managers may expect their judgments to be...
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measure the aggregation of accounting information. The question of interest is whether Entropy is a measure of communication …
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