By employing the 2017 reform of China's financial statement presentation as an exogenous shock, we evaluate how the change shapes the likelihood of stock price crashes. Our analysis indicates that firms affected by the reform exhibit notably higher crash risk after the new reporting format is...

This paper conducts a bibliometric analysis to map the evolution of financial statement analysis (FSA) research from 1937 to 2023, but the first substantial body of literature emerged from the 1970s. Drawing from 7,411 papers in the Scopus database, the paper applied the PRISMA protocol to...

The Western Balkans is experiencing an ongoing inflow of foreign direct investments (FDI) in the information and communications technology (ICT) industry as several European enterprises have already established their presence in the region. These inflows have generated large-scale ICT...

Detection of fraudulent financial stewardship in the cash flow section is an exciting thing and is rarely studied. This research empirically tests the discovery of fraudulent financial statements based on basic cash flow shenanigans. The sample of this study amounted to 470 data mining companies...

Using a dataset covering 3 million commercial borrower financial statements, we document a substantial, nearly monotonic decline in banks’ use of attested financial statements (AFS) in lending over the past two decades. Two market forces help explain this trend. First, technological advances...

Ratios are commonly used to extract information from accounting reports. However, ratios present only part of the information available in their two components. This article infers the functional form of the information discarded by ratios. It then develops ratio complements that incorporate the...

The article deals with the author's approach to the analysis of corporate financial statements as a tool of financial management in modern conditions, which is based on the concept of compromise between risk and profitability, is characterized by universality and relative simplicity, involving...

Under IAS 17, around 85% of leases were reported as operating. Under IFRS 16, finance and operating leases are no longer separated. This study responds to the IFRS Foundation's call about the effects of implementing IFRS 16 by examining three types of effects: a combined effect, a...

A wide range of parties involved in evaluating economic performance, including investors, auditors, interest groups, bankers, government organizations, academics, and analysts, can benefit greatly from the immediate detection of fraudulent financial reports. This research presents a novel...

Despite external evidence that employers seek MBA graduates with cross-functional problem-solving skills, prior research does not utilize financial statement analysis (FSA) as a tool for nonprofessional investors (NPIs) to develop interdisciplinary perspectives on problem-solving. This paper...

The purpose of this article is to analyze the effect of the time value of money on the financial statement. The article also includes discussions on the income statement, retained earnings, statement of financial position, cash flow statement, and time value of money

This study examines the influence and importance of firm characteristics on the quality of financial statements of listed companies in Vietnam's stock market from the audit point of view. We use regression models and machine learning algorithms to investigate data from 2225 observations of...

This study examines the investigation of accounting factors through audited financial statements in businesses by analyzing the qualified staff and investment in technology for sustainable profit. Therefore, the main goal is to analyze whether qualified staff and investment in technology affect...

There have been instances of different scandals involving financial records of companies. One of the most common ones is falsifying financial statements which is the exaggeration of the financial position of a company thereby misleading intending investors and the public at large. When this...

Introduction -- The no-arbitrage assumption and the dividend discount model -- Earnings-based valuation models and effects of conservatism -- Future earnings and the intrinsic value of equity -- Incorporate market information in valuation of individual firms and predicting returns -- Enterprise...

"How should an investor challenge the market price and find value? This book provides a new lens, arguing that value investing is a matter of understanding the business through accounting. Stephen Penman and Peter Pope-leading authorities on accounting and its investment applications-demonstrate...

The six components of the hexagonal fraud theory are represented in this study by external pressure variables, change in auditors, the nature of the industry, the CEO's dual role, change in directors, and political connections. Additionally, a statistical analysis is done to determine whether...

Woolworth Group consists of mainly three-core business, which is Woolworth food group, Endeavour Drinks and Portfolio Business that is listed on Australian stock exchange and S&P. This report consists of overall financial review of the company. The report summarises the company financial data...

The goal of study is to identify the phenomenon of the manipulation of financial statements in the modern business world and in particular the study of the case of fraud by Folli-Follie, which led to bankruptcy in 2019 in Greece. The manipulation of financial statements and fraud in general in...

The primary purpose of the current study is to examine the effectiveness of three popular forensic accounting tools to detect financial statement fraud at a real US-listed firm, whose accounting practices were investigated by the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). In this paper, I...

We examine the association between financial statement comparability and the likelihood of accounting fraud. Prior research documents a negative association between the quality of a firm’s reporting environment and accounting fraud. We build on this literature and show that poor financial...

Conducting informative profitability and valuation analyses requires reformulating the financial statements to separate operating activities—the core of value creation—from financing and other nonoperating activities. It also requires distinguishing between recurring and transitory items in...