Sinta Setiana, Aurora Angela, H. ., Reynard Tandayu
{"title":"The Effect of Personality on the Intention of Undergraduate Accounting Students to be a Public Accountant","authors":"Sinta Setiana, Aurora Angela, H. ., Reynard Tandayu","doi":"10.31014/AIOR.1993.04.02.191","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31014/AIOR.1993.04.02.191","url":null,"abstract":"A public accountant becomes one of the graduate profiles of the undergraduate accounting students at Maranatha Christian University. To decide on a career as a public accountant, ideally, the students have to possess the investigative or conventional personality as the primary code of Holland, besides carrier prospect. If they do not have one of two personality types, it will not be easy for them to work in this field. The objective research is to prove and analyze the effect of personality on the students who choose a public accountant career. The validity and reliability tests get done on carrier prospect first before analyzing data by a logistic regression model. After examining data and discussing the hypothesis testing results, this study infers that the conventional personality students positively tend to select the carrier as a public accountant. Similarly, this tendency applies to the carrier prospect impact.","PeriodicalId":225727,"journal":{"name":"Other Accounting Research eJournal","volume":"11 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-04-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126421455","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"How Accounting Professionals Cope with Client-Initiated Workplace Aggression","authors":"Tim D. Bauer, Sean M. Hillison, Ala Mokhtar","doi":"10.2139/ssrn.3706352","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3706352","url":null,"abstract":"Accounting professionals experience client-initiated workplace aggression, and prior research suggests the mechanisms used to cope with workplace aggression can influence the extent to which such aggression detrimentally affects work quality. We survey 163 accounting professionals to examine the mechanisms accountants use to cope with client-initiated workplace aggression. We focus on three types of coping mechanisms grounded in psychology theory – active, passive, and retaliatory – and we examine how frequently each are used. We also examine how these coping mechanisms are associated with different types of client aggression and accountant ranks, and with self-perceptions of work quality. Encouragingly, and different than findings in broader workplace coping research, our results show that accounting professionals most often try to take action to address the situation, but they also commonly passively cope by ignoring or resigning themselves to the status-quo. Given the importance of interaction in an accountant-client context, coping passively can have a significant negative influence on work quality. Interestingly, accountants tend to cope more passively (and less actively) as they experience more work-related negative acts. Further, we find that partners generally cope differently than staff, seniors, or managers and certain coping mechanisms appear better-suited to avoid adverse effects of client-initiated aggression (e.g., active - talking to the perpetrator) than others (e.g., passive - just accepting the situation). Avenues for future research are discussed.","PeriodicalId":225727,"journal":{"name":"Other Accounting Research eJournal","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-03-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129991035","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Jared S. Moon, S. Summers, Nathan Waddoups, David A. Wood
{"title":"Publication Benchmarking Data Based on Faculty Promoted at the Top 200 Worldwide Accounting Research Institutions","authors":"Jared S. Moon, S. Summers, Nathan Waddoups, David A. Wood","doi":"10.2139/SSRN.3750167","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/SSRN.3750167","url":null,"abstract":"The primary purpose of this paper is to update and extend past promotion benchmarking studies. We update prior benchmarking studies by providing publication benchmarking data for faculty promoted between 2013 and 2019, inclusive. We extend prior benchmarking studies by evaluating a larger number of institutions (the top 200 worldwide accounting institutions), using a more global journal list, and providing sensitivity analyses between journal lists. We group institutions based on rankings and report a possible minimum publication hurdle for each group in each journal category. In addition, we provide data on the mix, or percentage, of publications in each journal category for each institution ranking group.","PeriodicalId":225727,"journal":{"name":"Other Accounting Research eJournal","volume":"96 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-03-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131900150","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Staggeringly Problematic: A Primer on Staggered DiD for Accounting Researchers","authors":"John M. Barrios","doi":"10.2139/ssrn.3794859","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3794859","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents the staggered difference-in-differences (DiD) method in an accessible language to a broad accounting research audience from an applied researcher's perspective. Specifically, the paper examines DiD design problems when multiple units are treated and when the treatment is conducted at staggered periods in time. Using the Goodman-Bacon decomposition, I show how heterogeneous treatment effects can bias the estimated treatment effect in a staggered DiD when estimated using a two-way fixed effect regression. Finally, using the staggered adoption of the 150-hour Rule as an example, I briefly review several proposals to adjust for the bias and correctly implement staggered DiD designs that a bourgeoning literature has put forward in econometrics.","PeriodicalId":225727,"journal":{"name":"Other Accounting Research eJournal","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-02-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131218604","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Arya Espahbodi, G. White, Linda Espahbodi, Reza Espahbodi, Rosemary Walker
{"title":"CPA Exam Performance and Environmental and Other Opportunity Factors","authors":"Arya Espahbodi, G. White, Linda Espahbodi, Reza Espahbodi, Rosemary Walker","doi":"10.2139/ssrn.3782554","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3782554","url":null,"abstract":"CPA certification is an important measure of professional achievement and a critical element to advancement in the accounting profession. The CPA exam is rigorous, with overall lower pass rates relative to other professional exams, and even lower pass rates for historically disadvantaged groups. Thus, a key policy question is how to improve candidates’ performance on the CPA exam. In this paper, we examine the role that environmental (community segregation, socioeconomic status, and education and income gaps) and other factors representing opportunity play in CPA exam performance. The results of univariate analysis of CPA exam performance across various demographic and opportunity factors and those of several multivariate models indicate that opportunity affects exam performance of all candidates and more so for the disadvantaged groups. Finally, we offer recommendations for programs to help meet the profession’s need for an increasing number of qualified CPAs and its diversity and inclusion goals.","PeriodicalId":225727,"journal":{"name":"Other Accounting Research eJournal","volume":"15 4 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-02-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123210877","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Robert Bushman, Janet Gao, Xiumin Martin, Joseph Pacelli
{"title":"The Influence of Loan Officers on Loan Contract Design and Performance","authors":"Robert Bushman, Janet Gao, Xiumin Martin, Joseph Pacelli","doi":"10.2139/ssrn.3433063","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3433063","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract We investigate the extent to which loan officers generate independent, individual effects on the design and performance of syndicated loans. We construct a large database containing the identities of loan officers involved in structuring syndicated loan deals, allowing us to systematically disentangle borrower, bank, and loan officer fixed effects. We find that loan officers have significant influence on interest spreads, loan covenant design, and loan performance. Inclusion of borrower fixed effects increases our power to rule out the alternative that loan officer fixed effects reflect the matching of officers to borrowers based on time-invariant borrower characteristics. We document heterogeneity in loan officers’ influence across loan contract terms, with loan officers exerting stronger influence over covenant package design than over interest spreads, but marginal influence on loan maturity. Lead officers have greater influence than participant officers over covenant package design and loan performance, but less robust differential influence on interest spreads.","PeriodicalId":225727,"journal":{"name":"Other Accounting Research eJournal","volume":"216 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-12-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116113015","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Asymmetric Timeliness in Earnings: Insights from Earnings Disaggregation","authors":"Andrew B. Jackson, Yaowen Shan, Stephen L Taylor","doi":"10.2139/ssrn.3736277","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3736277","url":null,"abstract":"We revisit the asymmetric timeliness of earnings as proposed by Basu (1997). For a large sample of US firm years from 1970-2019, we show that earnings are asymmetrically timely with respect to bad economic news, and that this is robust to the declining timeliness of good news, different time periods, changes in accounting standards and changes in sample firms. When we disaggregate earnings into its market, industry and firm idiosyncratic sources, it is apparent that asymmetrical timeliness is restricted to the idiosyncratic component. This result supports the argument in Watts (2003), that asymmetric timeliness is primarily a response to information asymmetry issues in contracts that rely on accounting information.","PeriodicalId":225727,"journal":{"name":"Other Accounting Research eJournal","volume":"292 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-11-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"120848628","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Erik L. Beardsley, Andrew J. Imdieke, Thomas C. Omer
{"title":"The Distraction Effect of Non-Audit Services on Audit Quality","authors":"Erik L. Beardsley, Andrew J. Imdieke, Thomas C. Omer","doi":"10.2139/ssrn.3555786","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3555786","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Regulators have expressed concerns that an emphasis on non-audit services (NAS) could distract from the audit function, even for clients with minimal NAS purchases. Motivated by this concern, we examine whether a greater emphasis on providing NAS to audit clients generally (i.e., not to a specific client) can distract from the audit function, thus reducing audit quality. We find evidence of an NAS distraction effect, where a greater emphasis on NAS at the audit office-level results in more client financial statement restatements, even after controlling for client-specific NAS. Further, the association exists among clients that purchase minimal NAS, suggesting that this association relates to distraction effects in addition to independence issues examined in prior research. This study should be of interest to audit firms, audit committees, and regulators because it provides new evidence regarding issues related to a business model that includes both audit and non-audit services.","PeriodicalId":225727,"journal":{"name":"Other Accounting Research eJournal","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-11-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130332419","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Construction of the Self-Governable Professional: How Ex-Auditors Organize Career Transitions Beyond Audit","authors":"N. Dai, Zhiyuan Simon Tan","doi":"10.2139/ssrn.3726570","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3726570","url":null,"abstract":"Ex-auditors are professionals who used to conduct audit in accountancy firms, but now have left the audit profession entirely. Whilst ex-auditors represent not a negligible proportion of the original population of auditors, how they conduct career-making and eventually become “ex-auditors” is under-researched. To addresses this limitation in our understanding of audit career, mobilizing Foucault’s work on governmentality, this paper examines four interrelated aspects of how ex-auditors in China organized career transitions beyond audit, focusing particularly on the way in which professional subjecthood was constructed and governed. First, upon entering the audit profession, ex-auditors acted upon a possibility to leave audit in the future. They sought to experiment with being auditors and test their suitability for this career. Second, from prior employment in accountancy firms, ex-auditors acquired certain competencies and resources that enabled them to achieve self-growth and make themselves transitable beyond audit. Third, whilst ex-auditors did encounter disciplinary mechanisms operating in accountancy firms, they managed to turn them from seeming constraints into enabling forces, facilitating career transitions. Fourth, the ultimate decision to quit audit was the outcome of the self-exploration and self-reflection upon their career-making conducted by ex-auditors. Overall, this paper sheds new light on an important aspect of exercising individual agency in the enactment of professional careers, that is, the construction of the “self-governable professional” by ex-auditors in career transitions. It contributes towards the literature on career-making in the audit profession, as well as the Foucauldian studies of accounting professionals that emphasize the governing of subjects.","PeriodicalId":225727,"journal":{"name":"Other Accounting Research eJournal","volume":"38 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-11-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116416126","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Do Investors Respond to CEO Facial Expressions of Anger During Television Interviews?","authors":"Rachel W. Flam, Jeremiah Green, Nathan Y. Sharp","doi":"10.2139/ssrn.3740755","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3740755","url":null,"abstract":"Televised media interviews with public company CEOs occur nearly every trading day. During these interviews, investors observe visual cues in addition to hearing the verbal information managers disclose. Building on findings in the psychology and communications literature, we ask whether investors learn from CEO facial expressions. Using a sample of 959 interviews on CNBC from 2014-2018, we focus on CEO expressions of anger, an emotion generally associated with negative outcomes. We find that CEOs are more likely to show facial expressions of anger when the CEO is more expressive generally, when the journalist shows an angry facial expression, and when recent stock returns are lower. We also find that investors respond negatively to CEO facial expressions of anger and that CEO anger can nullify the benefits of a positive message from journalists.","PeriodicalId":225727,"journal":{"name":"Other Accounting Research eJournal","volume":"6 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115338279","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}