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Aggregate tone and gross domestic product
IF 3.2 3区 管理学
Contemporary Accounting Research Pub Date : 2024-11-15 DOI: 10.1111/1911-3846.12996
Elizabeth Demers, Fabio B. Gaertner, Asad Kausar, Heather Li, Logan B. Steele
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Tend to one's own house: The effect of firm CSR on employee effort
IF 3.2 3区 管理学
Contemporary Accounting Research Pub Date : 2024-11-14 DOI: 10.1111/1911-3846.12987
Jeremy Douthit, Zhiping (Kyle) Mao, Patrick Martin
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Public enforcement through independent directors
IF 3.2 3区 管理学
Contemporary Accounting Research Pub Date : 2024-11-14 DOI: 10.1111/1911-3846.12989
Xiaoxi Li, Pingui Rao, Yong George Yang, Heng Yue
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Auditor distraction: The case of outside job opportunities for external auditors and audit quality
IF 3.2 3区 管理学
Contemporary Accounting Research Pub Date : 2024-11-14 DOI: 10.1111/1911-3846.12994
Matthew Ege, Young Hoon Kim, Dechun Wang
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Discretionary dissemination on Twitter
IF 3.2 3区 管理学
Contemporary Accounting Research Pub Date : 2024-10-30 DOI: 10.1111/1911-3846.12986
Richard M. Crowley, Wenli Huang, Hai Lu
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Bank relationship and contractual flexibility: Evidence from covenant enforcement
IF 3.2 3区 管理学
Contemporary Accounting Research Pub Date : 2024-10-22 DOI: 10.1111/1911-3846.12984
Yong Kyu Gam, Chunbo Liu
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The use of cash flows metrics in CEO compensation and the design of loan contracts
IF 3.2 3区 管理学
Contemporary Accounting Research Pub Date : 2024-10-10 DOI: 10.1111/1911-3846.12981
Guojin Gong, Xin Daniel Jiang, Biqin Xie
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The impact of news media coverage on voluntary disclosure
IF 3.2 3区 管理学
Contemporary Accounting Research Pub Date : 2024-10-08 DOI: 10.1111/1911-3846.12982
Brandon Lock
{"title":"The impact of news media coverage on voluntary disclosure","authors":"Brandon Lock","doi":"10.1111/1911-3846.12982","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/1911-3846.12982","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This study investigates whether and how firm-specific news media coverage affects corporate voluntary disclosure. I predict that media coverage influences managers' disclosure decisions by directing investor attention toward firms and increasing investor demand for firm information. I find that managers are more likely to issue earnings guidance if their recent earnings guidance receives more media coverage. The relation between media coverage and guidance issuance is stronger for news articles that purely disseminate information quickly and are published by news outlets that target institutional investors. Consistent with my hypothesis that media coverage influences investor demand for information, I find evidence that media coverage of guidance positively relates to subsequent institutional information search activity, which in turn positively relates to future guidance issuance. Examining sources of plausibly exogenous variation in media coverage, I find further corroborative evidence of a positive relation between media coverage and earnings guidance. Overall, these analyses indicate that the news media influence managers' provision of voluntary disclosure.</p>","PeriodicalId":10595,"journal":{"name":"Contemporary Accounting Research","volume":"41 4","pages":"2354-2383"},"PeriodicalIF":3.2,"publicationDate":"2024-10-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142764181","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Earnings quality on the street
IF 3.2 3区 管理学
Contemporary Accounting Research Pub Date : 2024-09-26 DOI: 10.1111/1911-3846.12975
Urooj Khan, Venkat Peddireddy, Shiva Rajgopal
{"title":"Earnings quality on the street","authors":"Urooj Khan,&nbsp;Venkat Peddireddy,&nbsp;Shiva Rajgopal","doi":"10.1111/1911-3846.12975","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/1911-3846.12975","url":null,"abstract":"<p>We develop a composite firm-year earnings quality score (<i>EQSCORE</i>) that uses signals based on fundamental analysis. We obtain a proprietary data set of 613 reports about aggressive reporting practices over 2004–2009 for 230 unique firms from a research firm (RF). From these reports, we identify red flags of poor earnings quality relating to (1) sales quality, (2) margin quality, (3) cash flow quality, (4) corporate governance, (5) audit, and (6) others. We construct the <i>EQSCORE</i> using 51 signals employed by the RF and a novel approach that imitates the RF's process for discovering earnings quality. The <i>EQSCORE</i> outperforms existing composite models of earnings quality in identifying accounting and auditing enforcement releases and restated firm-years and predicts future stock returns. The corporate governance–related and audit-related red flags included in the <i>EQSCORE</i> complement accounting-based red flags and enhance the ability of the <i>EQSCORE</i> to identify firms with poor earnings quality.</p>","PeriodicalId":10595,"journal":{"name":"Contemporary Accounting Research","volume":"41 4","pages":"2290-2324"},"PeriodicalIF":3.2,"publicationDate":"2024-09-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142764408","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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How does perceived ease of information access affect investors' judgments?
IF 3.2 3区 管理学
Contemporary Accounting Research Pub Date : 2024-09-26 DOI: 10.1111/1911-3846.12979
Deni Cikurel
{"title":"How does perceived ease of information access affect investors' judgments?","authors":"Deni Cikurel","doi":"10.1111/1911-3846.12979","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/1911-3846.12979","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This study investigates how using technologies that increase the perceived ease of information access, such as search engines, can affect investors' judgments. Relying on the “Google effect” theory, I predict that using a search engine to access financial information will lead to shallower processing of that information, causing earnings fixation. The results of three experiments support this prediction and the theoretical process. Specifically, investors who access financials via a search engine are less likely to react to the information in the income statement other than earnings compared to those who do not use a search engine. In addition, search condition investors are more likely to mention earnings in their investment reasoning and find earnings more influential than the control condition investors. Furthermore, search condition investors believe that information is more likely to be available in the future and are more likely to reopen the income statement. A second experiment shows that the knowledge that the information will be easily reaccessed increases investors' earnings fixation. Finally, a third experiment provides evidence that using a search engine reduces the depth of information processing. This study extends accounting research by showing that using technologies that increase the perceived ease of information access can reduce investors' processing depth and information acquisition.</p>","PeriodicalId":10595,"journal":{"name":"Contemporary Accounting Research","volume":"41 4","pages":"2325-2353"},"PeriodicalIF":3.2,"publicationDate":"2024-09-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142764409","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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