This study examines the impacts of mandatory adoption of International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) and corporate governance on accounting accruals in the UK and Germany. There has been a long debate on whether mandating a single set of high quality accounting standards, i.e. IFRS, leads...

Many countries have adopted lockdown measures to combat the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. The lockdowns in the state of Victoria (VIC), Australia, however, are unique in that the government divides VIC into two distinct areas using Ring of Steel boundary, and consistently places more...

In this paper, we investigate how real estate portfolio composition impacts earnings management (EM) of New Zealand listed property portfolios (NZ-LPPs). We employ a panel dataset containing accounting and property data for NZ-LPPs. The findings include: (1) the office property ratio of the real...