{"title":"Readability of Accounting Disclosures: A Comprehensive Review and Research Agenda*","authors":"Anne-Marie Gosselin, Julien Le Maux, Nadia Smaili","doi":"10.1111/1911-3838.12275","DOIUrl":"10.1111/1911-3838.12275","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>Understanding corporate disclosures is important for accounting researchers, as information plays a central role on financial markets. A generation of accounting and finance researchers has shown how readability of different financial and nonfinancial disclosures affects our understanding of organizational behaviors. We review 138 papers from 1950 to 2020 using the five Ws analysis method (<i>W</i>ho, <i>W</i>hat, Ho<i>W</i>, <i>W</i>hy, and to <i>W</i>hom) developed by Culiberg and Mihelič (2017). We organize the literature into a comprehensive framework, the readability wheel, which provides an overview of existing studies, helps with understanding the complexity and issues of readability, and outlines an agenda for future research. We also use the readability wheel to discuss the evolution of these studies.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":43435,"journal":{"name":"Accounting Perspectives","volume":"20 4","pages":"543-581"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2021-09-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48713914","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}
Margaret H. Christ, Marc Eulerich, Ronja Krane, David A. Wood
{"title":"New Frontiers for Internal Audit Research*","authors":"Margaret H. Christ, Marc Eulerich, Ronja Krane, David A. Wood","doi":"10.1111/1911-3838.12272","DOIUrl":"10.1111/1911-3838.12272","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>Internal audit provides useful and valuable services to organizations, and academic research has established its importance in improving corporate governance. However, the body of internal audit research is still relatively small. Indeed, there are many emerging, lesser-known topics and practitioners would like guidance. The primary focus of this paper is to make specific recommendations for future research based on surveys, interviews, and discussions with practitioners. We identify three broad areas for additional academic research: innovation in information technology, staffing and personnel development, and agile auditing. In each area, we describe current practices and discuss the relevant accounting literature, noting gaps where additional inquiry is needed. We also provide a list of testable research ideas to help inform academics about practice-relevant research questions that would not only add to the academic literature, but would benefit practitioners who seek guidance. We hope this paper will inspire more academic research that investigates important internal audit questions.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":43435,"journal":{"name":"Accounting Perspectives","volume":"20 4","pages":"449-475"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2021-09-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1111/1911-3838.12272","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46500443","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}
Derek K. Oler, Christopher J. Skousen, Kevin R. Smith, Jayson Talakai
{"title":"An International Comparison of the Academic Accounting Professoriate*","authors":"Derek K. Oler, Christopher J. Skousen, Kevin R. Smith, Jayson Talakai","doi":"10.1111/1911-3838.12271","DOIUrl":"10.1111/1911-3838.12271","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>An international comparison of the accounting professoriate provides useful information to both key decision makers and individual faculty. We compare characteristics of the academic accounting professoriate in the United States and Canada. Our comparison includes the size of accounting departments (measured by the average number of accounting faculty) and the relative level of research versus teaching focus in accounting departments (proxied by the proportion of tenure-track vs. non-tenure-track faculty). We also examine the relative mobility of accounting faculty (proxied by the number of faculty employed in the same country where they received their final degree vs. the number of faculty employed in a different country). We examine the time it takes for tenure-track faculty to obtain tenure and the time for tenured associates to become full professors, broken out by obtaining their final degree in the same country where they are employed versus faculty who obtained their final degree in a different country.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":43435,"journal":{"name":"Accounting Perspectives","volume":"21 1","pages":"131-146"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2021-08-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1111/1911-3838.12271","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44132902","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 Interactive Use of Management Control Systems and\u0000 IT\u0000 Project Performance: A Conceptual Framework†","authors":"F. Mir, Davar Rezania","doi":"10.1111/1911-3838.12269","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/1911-3838.12269","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43435,"journal":{"name":"Accounting Perspectives","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2021-08-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1111/1911-3838.12269","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45716703","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}