{"title":"Investing in Canadian Senior Housing Companies: Chartwell, Sienna, and Extendicare*","authors":"Alisher Mansurov, Marc Pilon","doi":"10.1111/1911-3838.12375","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/1911-3838.12375","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This case study is designed to enhance students' analytical thinking skills by presenting broad financial and nonfinancial information on three publicly traded Canadian senior housing companies. The focus is on students' ability to use the provided financial data and ratios for assessing financial performance and performing a valuation analysis in the context of the senior housing sector. The case also discusses the financial impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the three companies, in addition to opportunities and risks for the sector going forward. The novelty of this case study also comes from the use of valuation methods that are not traditionally used in accounting-based case studies. External accounting data are used to teach students about valuation methods that are more prominently used in the finance discipline.</p>","PeriodicalId":43435,"journal":{"name":"Accounting Perspectives","volume":"23 4","pages":"553-583"},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2024-09-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/1911-3838.12375","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142862094","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Facing Inconvenient Truths When Teaching Financial Accounting*","authors":"Daniel Tinkelman","doi":"10.1111/1911-3838.12376","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/1911-3838.12376","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>Introductory financial accounting courses usually present accounting uncritically, as a useful aid to investment and lending decisions, while glossing over numerous long-acknowledged theoretical and practical issues. This article describes these issues and suggests that students should be taught that accounting must fill both an accountability function and a decision-support function. The tensions between these roles explain many otherwise anomalous features of accounting.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":43435,"journal":{"name":"Accounting Perspectives","volume":"24 1","pages":"79-100"},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2024-09-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143633112","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 Relationship Between Financial Education in Young Adults and Financial Literacy: A Review of the Literature in Canada and the United States*","authors":"Folasade Adesina, Carla Carnaghan, James Smith","doi":"10.1111/1911-3838.12366","DOIUrl":"10.1111/1911-3838.12366","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Professional accounting bodies in Canada and the United States, and throughout the world, have funded programs to improve financial literacy for many years. This ongoing interest stems from the expected benefits of improved financial behavior for individuals, society, and financial markets. However, the fact that relatively little research on financial literacy has been published in accounting journals suggests that few accounting academics are aware of, interested in, or motivated to work on the topic. This review helps to identify what we know about the effectiveness of financial education programs intended specifically for young adults, who constitute the demographic group likely to gain the most from improved financial literacy. Our review identifies factors that impinge both on the effectiveness of financial education programs and the research examining these programs. Noteworthy factors include (1) a lack of theoretical frameworks to guide the programs and research on the programs, (2) a tendency for outcome measures to capture financial knowledge rather than financial behaviors, and (3) the need for stronger research designs. We also note some possible instructional design considerations in developing financial education programs and highlight financial literacy as a promising area of research for accounting academics. Our findings can help guide improvements to financial education programs and encourage further research to assess the effectiveness of financial literacy programs.</p>","PeriodicalId":43435,"journal":{"name":"Accounting Perspectives","volume":"24 1","pages":"47-78"},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2024-07-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/1911-3838.12366","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141777717","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Krista Fiolleau, Carolyn MacTavish, Errol Osecki, Linda Thorne
{"title":"An Exploration of Technological Innovations in the Audit Industry: Disruption Theory Applied to a Regulated Industry*","authors":"Krista Fiolleau, Carolyn MacTavish, Errol Osecki, Linda Thorne","doi":"10.1111/1911-3838.12367","DOIUrl":"10.1111/1911-3838.12367","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Technological innovation is increasing throughout the audit industry. Although prior research has explored how specific technological innovations have influenced the audit product and the profitability of the audit, the strategic implications of technological innovation for the audit industry have yet to be examined. To address this issue, we adopt Christensen's seminal theory of technological innovation (introduced in his 1997 book <i>The Innovator's Dilemma</i>) to gain insight into the results of 27 semistructured interviews with auditors and audit technical specialists. Consistent with Christensen's sustaining and efficiency strategic responses, our findings suggest that, at this time, technology is primarily being used by the audit industry to strengthen the audit industry's ability to serve mainstream clients by providing a “higher-quality” and lower-cost audit to replace menial tasks that historically have been done by junior auditors. We find that industry-disruptive new market entry is currently prevented by regulatory and professional barriers; however, strategic disruption to the audit industry appears inevitable as technology is already being used in audits of nonregulated markets by new entrants. Strategically, the audit industry will survive in its current recognizable form only if self-disruption occurs before the regulatory barriers are dropped, which requires significant upskilling in the industry to ensure that firms have the skills to be first movers whenever technological innovations are introduced.</p>","PeriodicalId":43435,"journal":{"name":"Accounting Perspectives","volume":"23 3","pages":"403-445"},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2024-07-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/1911-3838.12367","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141575832","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Introduction to the Special Issue of Qualitative Research in Accounting","authors":"Matt Bamber, Philippe Lassou","doi":"10.1111/1911-3838.12368","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/1911-3838.12368","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43435,"journal":{"name":"Accounting Perspectives","volume":"23 2","pages":"139-146"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2024-06-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141424940","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":"Remote “Helicopter Bosses”: Employee Perceptions of the Effects of Supervisory Controls and Remote Work During the COVID-19 Pandemic*","authors":"Khim Kelly, Ethan LaMothe, Lisa Baudot","doi":"10.1111/1911-3838.12363","DOIUrl":"10.1111/1911-3838.12363","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>The COVID-19 pandemic precipitated an extensive involuntary shift to remote work and has since dramatically reshaped work and its supervision. We examine how employees' perceived productivity is associated with remote work during the pandemic, how supervisory controls moderate this relationship, and how remote work and perceived productivity impact employee preference for post-pandemic remote work. We survey 589 workers in June 2020 via Mechanical Turk and find a directionally positive but nonsignificant association between remote work and perceived productivity. Additional analysis, however, indicates an indirect positive effect of remote work on perceived productivity through more hours worked. We further find supervisory monitoring intensity (SMI) is positively associated with perceived productivity, and the association between remote work and perceived productivity is more negative with more intense supervisory monitoring. Outcome-based evaluation is also positively associated with perceived productivity, but it does not moderate the relationship between remote work and perceived productivity. Supervisor-based evaluation has no significant association with perceived productivity, nor does it moderate the relationship between remote work and perceived productivity. Overall, our results suggest the main effect of remote work on perceived productivity during the pandemic is weak at best, and SMI is less compatible with remote work supervision than outcome-based evaluation. Finally, we find increased remote work and perceived productivity improvement during the pandemic are positively associated with preference for post-pandemic remote work, and we find a marginal positive interaction effect between them. These findings provide empirical evidence of the pandemic's repercussions on the post-pandemic work environment.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":43435,"journal":{"name":"Accounting Perspectives","volume":"23 3","pages":"333-373"},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2024-06-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141355434","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":"Show Me the Money! Supply and Demand Misalignment for Tangible Rewards in Business*","authors":"Kyle M. Stubbs, Jeremiah W. Bentley","doi":"10.1111/1911-3838.12364","DOIUrl":"10.1111/1911-3838.12364","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>In incentive contracts, supervisors often set targets for employee performance, while employees decide the effort they are willing to exert to meet the target and earn the incentive. Both supervisors and employees make judgments about the value of incentives in terms of effort required or expended. Recent research on incentive types investigates employee effort in response to tangible and cash rewards under the premise that they may be valued differently by employees. We extend this research by investigating whether supervisors and employees make different effort-related decisions in response to tangible and cash rewards. Specifically, relying on construal-level theory, we predict that supervisors will favor tangible rewards relative to cash more than employees will. We conduct a lab experiment where we ask participants to take the role of either supervisor or employee. We manipulate the reward type (tangible or cash) and measure how much work supervisors demand and employees are willing to provide to obtain the reward. As predicted, we find that the tangible rewards, relative to cash, increase supervisors' target setting significantly more than employee effort levels. Our results offer implications for real-world incentive compensation design.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":43435,"journal":{"name":"Accounting Perspectives","volume":"23 3","pages":"447-465"},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2024-05-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141192392","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 Can Accountants Enhance (or Save) Natural and Cultural Capital Valuation? Engaging Academics: A Collaboration with CPA Canada and the Canadian Commission for UNESCO*","authors":"S. Leanne Keddie, Ellena Damini, Pavlo Kalyta","doi":"10.1111/1911-3838.12365","DOIUrl":"10.1111/1911-3838.12365","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Accountants should engage more with natural and cultural capital accounting to make tools more accessible and to ensure critical information is provided to decision-makers. While ecological economists have continued to innovate and design tools, corporate-level accounting has seemingly lagged behind. We argue that the time is now for accounting researchers and practitioners to come together to build upon these tools to advance a sustainable agenda. We examine possibilities through the novel lens of a recent Chartered Professional Accountants of Canada and Canadian Commission for United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) report that explores tools to measure natural and cultural capital at UNESCO designated sites in Canada. From here, we pose a variety of questions, critiques, and pathways for researchers and practitioners alike.</p>","PeriodicalId":43435,"journal":{"name":"Accounting Perspectives","volume":"24 1","pages":"21-46"},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2024-05-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/1911-3838.12365","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141099235","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}