We investigate the effect of audit partner style on financial statement comparability in a U.S. setting using newly-available data from 2016 to 2020. We document an audit partner style effect on comparability incremental to audit firm and audit office effects. Our results are consistent across...

We investigate if additional customized disclosure increases transparency or opacity for firms from IFRS reporting jurisdictions that adopt digitized financial statement filing. We identify the major data items that require customized extensions (firm specific) with digitized IFRS financial data...

The Chairman of the SEC has recently called on audit committees to be active, knowledgeable, and independent to ensure high-quality corporate disclosure to the capital markets (SEC 2019). In this paper, we investigate whether more active audit committees improve financial reporting outcomes by...

This paper examines two attributes of earnings press releases issued by firms cross-listed on U.S. stock exchanges: the tone and frequency of forward-looking statements. A more conservative tone and a greater proportion of forward-looking statements are often viewed as contributing to more...

Firms are required to provide financial information via the financial statements and the MD&A—a narrative explanation of the financial statements. Our study examines how firms use the MD&A channel when their financial statement channel is inadequate. We proxy for the adequacy of the financial...

This essay explores the nature of flexibility in accounting, why it exists and its consequences for financial reporting. Flexibility in accounting (as opposed to rigidity or uniformity in accounting) offers preparers of accounting reports the ability to make acceptable adaptations or variations...

Financial statements represent an instrument by which relevant information about a company is passed on to its users. Based on the information presented in the financial statements, i.e. information on the financial position and performance of the company, and generated cash flows and capital,...

The present study aims to realize and become more familiar with the impact and the functions of audit committee and its characteristics, including the expertise and independence of members, related experiences, and change of auditor on the quality of financial reporting in companies listed on...

The public CbCR requirement for EU financial institutions leaves leeway to the reporting firms as regards the calculating and presentation of the data. Based on a sample of CbCRs published by EU-headquartered multinational bank groups, we analyze the reporting behavior and the degree of...

Financial statement preparers often make accounting judgments with considerable uncertainty about what future accounting standards will require. We conduct a study in the experimental economics tradition to investigate how such uncertainty affects preparers’ current period accounting...

This study examined and evaluated the role of financial statement analysis in the increasing of the performance of the organization. The major aims of the study were to find empirical evidence of the degree to which effective analysis effects on the performance. Considering the nature of the...

Cash flow hedge derivatives are an example of an economic transaction that is not fully portrayed in the financial statements in two key ways. First, while changes in the fair value of the derivative are recorded at each reporting date, changes in the value of the underlying purchase or sale...

Purpose: The purpose of this study is to investigate how private and public firms vary with respect to unconditional conservatism levels in financial reporting. The study also examines whether adoption of international accounting standards affects the association between conservatism and...

In recent years, regulators have exempted an increasing number of companies from the requirement to appoint auditors, yet little is known about the role of the accounting profession in preparing and validating the financial statements of unaudited companies. In this paper, we examine empirically...

The ability of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (SME) in surviving in the midst of a crisis shows that this group is far more independent than large entities that generally rely on banking in terms of funding and operations. The contribution of SME in the government's trade balance is...

This paper examines the relation between voluntary disclosure of financial statement line items accompanying, and insider trading around, quarterly earnings announcements. We find that investors' reaction to positive earnings news is temporarily heightened by financial statement line items...

Available at SSRN: "https://ssrn.com/abstract=3357733" https://ssrn.com/abstract=3357733Both the International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRSs) and the codified accounting standards (ASC) for the US GAAP categorize hedging relationships as falling into several buckets. The two buckets of...

This paper examines whether managers of firms that engage in high levels of tax avoidance (TA) strategically reduce their financial statement readability (FSR) to mitigate the risk of exposing their TA strategies. On average, results are inconclusive, but mainly hold in the sample of firms with...

Prior studies find that delayed earnings announcements tend to communicate unfavorable news, and investors consequently react negatively when firms delay earnings announcements. However, these findings do not explain why investors discount delayed earnings, even after controlling for the...

The IRS uses information contained in financial statements as well as tax returns to detect tax avoidance behavior. We examine the impact on corporate tax avoidance behavior of reductions in the IRS's information processing costs resulting from the mandatory adoption of XBRL for financial...

We propose a new measure of accounting reporting complexity (ARC) based on the count of accounting items (XBRL tags) disclosed in 10-K filings. The preparation and disclosure of more accounting items is complicated because it requires greater knowledge of authoritative accounting standards. This...

This paper discusses and analyses Netflix's financial performance over the past 4 years between 2016 and 2019, with the use of financial ratios. Netflix is well known to many as a major streaming platform and the company that changed traditional DVD players as the main source for movies and TV...

In this project, I will present the financial statement analysis of Apple Company. The ratios of Apple can help us to understand the status of the company. We evaluate the current status of Apple's liquidity using the current ratio, the liquidity ratio, and, the cash ratio. We have also analyzed...

This research paper proposes to analyse the impact of International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS), on pharmaceutical companies. A graphical representation of its impact on the key performance indicators, after converging with IFRS, is presented in this paper. This study compared the...

This study explores the spillover effects of the tone of restatement press releases for the investments of rival firms. Our results show that changes in rivals' investments after a restatement are significantly positively associated with the tone of restatement press releases, and that this...

Using financial restatements as the contextual setting, we examine whether the accounting expertise of board committees affects the consequences of financial reporting quality. We analyze both short-term consequences—stock market reactions surrounding restatement announcements, and long-term...

The study discussed the impact of programmed accounting analysis (PAA) for the financial statements on qualitative characteristics of useful financial information. The practical study was conducted by an interview with the CEO for accounting information system company, The development in...

This study investigates the combination of textual and numerical accounting disclosures, which are often examined in silos by prior research. Focusing on three inherently complicated footnotes, we capture the amount of text used to explain numbers with the ratio of words to numbers. Using...

The study discussed the impact of programmed accounting analysis (PAA) for the financial statements on qualitative characteristics of useful financial information. The practical study was conducted by an interview with the CEO for accounting information system company, The development in...