The paper aims to determine the role of the financial situation of production companies in the relationship between their environmental initiatives and their factors of competitiveness. The paper takes advantage of primary and secondary statistical data. The former were gathered using the...

The paper aims to determine the role of the financial situation of production companies in the relationship between their environmental initiatives and their factors of competitiveness. The paper takes advantage of primary and secondary statistical data. The former were gathered using the...

Identifying fraudulent financial statements is important in open innovation to help users analyze financial statements and make investment decisions. It also helps users be aware of the occurrence of fraud in financial statements by considering the associated pattern. This study aimed to find...

This paper aims to provide an analysis of the profitability of audit firms in the Republic of Serbia during the period 2016-2018. The analysis is based on the data collected from the financial statements from all audit firms registered in the Republic of Serbia. The profitability analysis...

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...

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 question of non-financial and risk disclosures in corporate annual statements has been discussed globally for over a decade. The stakeholders of socially responsible organisations report a constantly growing demand for financial and non-financial information, including that related to...

Identifying fraudulent financial statements is important in open innovation to help users analyze financial statements and make investment decisions. It also helps users be aware of the occurrence of fraud in financial statements by considering the associated pattern. This study aimed to find...

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 question of non-financial and risk disclosures in corporate annual statements has been discussed globally for over a decade. The stakeholders of socially responsible organisations report a constantly growing demand for financial and non-financial information, including that related to...

Our concern for the analysis of the annual and interim financial reporting was generated by the importance that each entity must give, which in certain periods of its activity is required to give it to this strategic source of information. In each entity questions arise regarding the usefulness...

This paper studies how financial statement comparability affects the cost of capital and investor welfare. We show that the cost of capital decreases with comparability if and only if the quality of accounting standards is sufficiently high, thus supporting the relative importance of...

We examine the impact of clients' tax enforcement on financial statement auditors. In a regression discontinuity design, we exploit the firm-registration-date-based application of a new rule that assigns firms to two different tax enforcement regimes. Our analysis implies that auditors exert...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to investigate the association between gender diversity on the audit committees and the incidence of financial restatements.Design/methodology/approach – Using a sample of 683 firm-year observations from Iranian listed companies for the period 2013 to...

This study examines if financial reporting for income tax expense affects the timeliness of goodwill impairments. Goodwill impairments are an important signal of expected future cash flows, yet their timing is subject to managers' discretion. U.S. GAAP requires that firms test all goodwill for...

This study examines the impact of cross-firm financial statement comparability on theregulatory oversight of financial reporting quality. Consistent with the notion that cross-firmcomparable accounting systems enhance the regulators' ability to evaluate financial reportingquality, we find that...

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...

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...

Motivated mainly by three streams of research on religiosity and accounting expertise, this study investigates the effect of religiosity and accounting expertise on audit report lag. Using a unique sample and pooled regressions, it finds that the religiosity of top leaders, for example, Chief...

To be useful for decision-making accounting information needs to be of high quality. This article examines how tax accounting rules may impact the accuracy and reliability of the information contained in financial statements. The simulation model reveals that significant distortions occur in...

The aim of manuscript is to analyze and identify determinants of honest accounting errors leading to financial restatements based on data from SEC database and from annual reports. Reason for this study is that accounting errors are expensive for companies that need to change already published...