{"title":"The relationship of board diversity and stock performance in monistic and dualistic board structures: Results from Germany and UK","authors":"Tim Alexander Herberger, Andreas Oehler","doi":"10.1002/jcaf.22676","DOIUrl":"10.1002/jcaf.22676","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The analysis of the relationship between board diversity and corporate performance is a well-documented area of research. Our analysis of the stock market in Germany and the United Kingdom (UK) from 2005 to 2018 contributes to the literature by considering different corporate constitutions (monistic and dualistic) as well as a variety of diversity factors and diversity potential factors in a uniform analytical framework. We implement the stock price performance as a company performance proxy because this can be observed more easily by non-professional investors than Tobin's Q, commonly used in former studies, and represents a pure market-based view of the company performance. Based on generalized least squares panel regressions (GLS), our results reveal no significant difference between monistic and dualistic corporate constitutions regarding a possible relationship between diversity and company performance. They support former studies that the size of a top management board is significantly negatively related to company performance in the long run. Furthermore, no significant correlation can be found between changes in a board in a fiscal year and company performance, which was analyzed for the first time in such a framework.</p>","PeriodicalId":44561,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Corporate Accounting and Finance","volume":"35 2","pages":"135-146"},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2023-11-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/jcaf.22676","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139266802","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":"CAPM and a new investment decision method","authors":"Roi D. Taussig","doi":"10.1002/jcaf.22672","DOIUrl":"10.1002/jcaf.22672","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The traditional CAPM explains the return on each security, while the current study suggests a new methodology for “picking” a broad index, based on regression trees. Analysts’ recommendations on market prices are analyzed, and a one to three-stage method is employed. The analysis suggests a few rules of thumb (only one to three stages) for buying or selling the CRSP US market index. The findings are robust, and the rules are reliable. Researchers and practitioners may benefit greatly from the new rules.</p>","PeriodicalId":44561,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Corporate Accounting and Finance","volume":"35 2","pages":"78-85"},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2023-11-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135341749","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}
Nikhil M N, Sandeep S. Shenoy, Suman Chakraborty, Lithin B M
{"title":"Does the Ind AS moderate the relationship between capital structure and firm performance?","authors":"Nikhil M N, Sandeep S. Shenoy, Suman Chakraborty, Lithin B M","doi":"10.1002/jcaf.22673","DOIUrl":"10.1002/jcaf.22673","url":null,"abstract":"<p>In line with the wide implementation of IFRS around the globe, the significant shift in the Indian accounting system appertained to the Ind AS is expected to have a substantial impact on the firm-level information environment. Nevertheless, the question of whether the adoption of such standards moderates the relationship between leverage and firm performance remains unanswered. In this backdrop, we aim to close this research gap employing 3120 firm-year observations from 401 Indian non-financial firms for a period from 2013 to 2022. Notably, we found that the leverage among Indian firms discourages profitability. Further, the adoption of Ind AS negatively moderates the leverage and firm performance association. The findings suggest that the enhanced transparency and the firm's reporting quality dissuade risk-averse investors from investing in highly levered companies. As a result, investors avoid risky investments, and firms must strive to foster their trust and motivation. The conclusion of the present research draws significant implications for management and policymakers while also contributing to the ongoing debate on capital structure and firm performance.</p>","PeriodicalId":44561,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Corporate Accounting and Finance","volume":"35 2","pages":"86-102"},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2023-11-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/jcaf.22673","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135342018","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":"Stakeholder influences on management control systems for ESG governance and reporting in the global automotive industry","authors":"Ting-Tsen Yeh, Yuanzhang Xiao, Shirley J. Daniel","doi":"10.1002/jcaf.22671","DOIUrl":"10.1002/jcaf.22671","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Drawing on Simons’ levers of control, we develop a theoretical model to explore the influences of stakeholders (customers, suppliers, employees, regulators, communities, industry associations, and investors) on Management Control Systems for achieving strategic environmental, social, and governance (ESG) objectives. We then test the model using data from over 600 firms in the global automotive industry by linking the eleven largest automotive manufacturers with over 500 of their tier-1 and tier-2 suppliers and examining whether stakeholder-relevant metrics impact supplier retention and whether management compensation is tied to ESG governance. We also examine whether stakeholder influences lead to higher ESG scores. We find that stakeholder-related metrics for emissions, human rights, customer health, employee empowerment and industry associations are related to management compensation systems tied to ESG. We also find significant linkages between stakeholder influences and ESG scores.</p>","PeriodicalId":44561,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Corporate Accounting and Finance","volume":"35 2","pages":"103-120"},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2023-11-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135820190","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":"Market frictions and momentum premium: does stock mispricing matter? Evidence from China","authors":"Amira Tarek, Heba Ali, Ehab K. A. Mohamed","doi":"10.1002/jcaf.22670","DOIUrl":"10.1002/jcaf.22670","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This study examines if both market frictions and stock mispricing provide better explanation of the momentum premium, compared to the conventional asset pricing models. Using a large sample of 3727 companies listed on the Chinese stock market, we show that winner stocks are associated with larger market frictions and stock mispricing. Our findings reveal new empirical evidence that momentum premium can be attributed to market friction risk-factor but additionally explained by a mispricing component.</p>","PeriodicalId":44561,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Corporate Accounting and Finance","volume":"35 2","pages":"50-77"},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2023-10-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136134856","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}
Smilla Hansen, Michel Charifzadeh, Tim A. Herberger
{"title":"The impact of IFRS 9 on the cyclicality of loan loss provisions","authors":"Smilla Hansen, Michel Charifzadeh, Tim A. Herberger","doi":"10.1002/jcaf.22669","DOIUrl":"10.1002/jcaf.22669","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Through their procyclical behavior, loan loss provisions have been determined as one of the factors that contribute to financial instability during a crisis. IFRS 9 was introduced in 2018 with an expected credit loss model replacing the incurred loss model of IAS 39 to mitigate the effect in the future. Our study aims to analyze loan loss provisions of major banks in the Eurozone to determine for the first time if the implementation of IFRS 9, as intended by regulators, has a dampening effect on procyclicality, especially during the stressed situation under COVID-19. We analyze 51 banks from 12 countries of the European Monetary Union using 2856 firm-year observations. While no robust evidence of less procyclicality can be found after the implementation of IFRS 9 until the pandemic, we find evidence that loan loss provisions moved countercyclical during 2020, indicating an alleviating effect at the beginning of the exogenous shock.</p>","PeriodicalId":44561,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Corporate Accounting and Finance","volume":"35 2","pages":"37-49"},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2023-10-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/jcaf.22669","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136160864","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":"Can unexpected pension contributions improve employee productivity? Evidence from the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017","authors":"Narisa Tianjing Dai, Leo Jiahe Liu, Rebeca Pérez","doi":"10.1002/jcaf.22668","DOIUrl":"10.1002/jcaf.22668","url":null,"abstract":"<p>We examine the effect of unexpected defined benefit (DB) pension contributions on employee productivity. The Tax Cuts & Jobs Act (TCJA), implemented in the U.S. in 2017, decreased the corporate tax rate from 35 percent in 2017 to 21 percent in 2018. This change incentivized firms to increase DB pension contributions in 2017 . The TCJA provides an opportunity to study the motivation effect of unexpected employee benefits. We empirically find that resulting increases in DB pension contributions motivate employees to produce, and that labor intensity and length of operating cycle can enhance this association. We also find that general unexpected pension contributions have no pronounced effect on employee productivity. We further show that such a change in pension contributions does not significantly increase overproduction costs.</p>","PeriodicalId":44561,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Corporate Accounting and Finance","volume":"35 2","pages":"25-36"},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2023-10-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135510774","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":"Market share, investor horizon, and stock crash risk","authors":"Thanh Ngo, Jurica Susnjara, Ha-Chin Yi","doi":"10.1002/jcaf.22667","DOIUrl":"10.1002/jcaf.22667","url":null,"abstract":"<p>On a 1990–2016 sample of 78,594 firm-year observations, we document strong evidence of lower stock crash risk for more prominent firms (those with greater market share). This evidence is consistent across various proxies for stock crash risk, raw versus instrumented market share, and ordinary least squares versus logistic regressions. We also find that the market share's suppressing effect on stock crash risk is weakened by the relative prevalence of long-term investors. This moderating effect of investor horizon suggests the quasi-monopolistic insulation from market pressures as the explanation for the reduction in stock crash risk among more dominant firms.</p>","PeriodicalId":44561,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Corporate Accounting and Finance","volume":"35 1","pages":"308-324"},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2023-10-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135800304","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}
Li (Lily) Z. Brooks, Yun Cheng, Linxiao Liu, Michael D. Yu
{"title":"The timeliness of 10-K filings, financial performance, and stock returns","authors":"Li (Lily) Z. Brooks, Yun Cheng, Linxiao Liu, Michael D. Yu","doi":"10.1002/jcaf.22665","DOIUrl":"10.1002/jcaf.22665","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Using a dataset constructed from the EDGAR database, this study investigates whether the timing of filing 10-Ks contains useful information to investors. We argue and find that firms with better earnings news are more likely to file their 10-Ks early. We further show that firms experience earnings increase would accelerate the filing of their 10-Ks. We explore whether the timeliness measure is useful for predicting future financial performance and stock returns. We find that firms filing 10-Ks early in the current year are more likely to have better earnings and higher stock returns in future years. Our results are robust to different measures of timeliness, before and after the statutory filing deadline changes, and subsamples of firms with large or small market capitalization.</p>","PeriodicalId":44561,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Corporate Accounting and Finance","volume":"35 1","pages":"277-307"},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2023-10-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136212667","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":"Unleashing efficiency and insights: Exploring the potential applications and challenges of ChatGPT in accounting","authors":"Joanna (Jingwen) Zhao, Xinruo Wang","doi":"10.1002/jcaf.22663","DOIUrl":"10.1002/jcaf.22663","url":null,"abstract":"<p>ChatGPT, an advanced natural language processing (NLP) model based on GPT-4 architecture, demonstrates exceptional ability in comprehending, interpreting, and generating human-like writings. Our study explores ChatGPT's potential applications and challenges in the accounting field. With cutting-edge NLP capabilities, ChatGPT has the prospect of reshaping various accounting processes by automating repetitive tasks, enhancing financial and managerial reporting and analysis, improving auditing and tax practices, and simplifying client interactions. Meanwhile, recognizing and mitigating possible limitations are vital to ensure the ethical and reliable utilization of AI and NLP techniques in the accounting and business sectors. Our study provides practical insights for accounting professionals, policymakers, investors, and other stakeholders to leverage this cutting-edge technology to revolutionize the accounting profession, echoing society's ideal blueprint for a promising AI-empowered economy.</p>","PeriodicalId":44561,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Corporate Accounting and Finance","volume":"35 1","pages":"269-276"},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2023-09-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135193233","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}