{"title":"Aggressive CEOs and bank mergers and acquisitions","authors":"Mingming Ji, Liangliang Jiang","doi":"10.1016/j.jcae.2022.100318","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jcae.2022.100318","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>The U.S. banking industry<span> has seen waves of mergers since the 1980s. Despite a significant body of research on the determinants of these waves, there are few studies of how CEOs influence banks’ mergers and acquisitions (M&As). This paper studies the effect of CEO aggressiveness on bank M&As. We construct a new measure of bank CEO aggressiveness based on CEOs’ ancestral countries of origin and data on inter-country wars. We find that aggressive CEOs are more likely to acquire other banks. Moreover, the impact of CEO aggressiveness on bank M&A decisions is more pronounced when the CEOs are from larger and more profitable banks, when CEOs have a longer tenure, and when CEOs’ ancestral country of origin has a more masculine culture. Moreover, we show that aggressive CEOs are more likely to make acquisitions when CEOs possess more cultural maintenance, which captures the extent to which CEOs retain their original cultural values and beliefs. Finally, we document positive short-term stock market reactions to bank M&As initiated by aggressive CEOs.</span></p></div>","PeriodicalId":46693,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Contemporary Accounting & Economics","volume":"18 3","pages":"Article 100318"},"PeriodicalIF":3.3,"publicationDate":"2022-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136464070","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}
{"title":"Organizational form and access to capital: The role of regulatory interventions","authors":"Debarati Basu , Kaustav Sen","doi":"10.1016/j.jcae.2022.100335","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jcae.2022.100335","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>We examine how regulatory nudges mandating only disclosure of ownership information and no structural change impact a firm’s access to capital based on its organizational form. As a first of its kind, Clause 35 in India (characterized by weak enforcement and concentrated ownership) only required classifying shareholders into insiders and outsiders. Pre-regulation, group-affiliated firms exhibited lesser financial constraints than standalone firms. This reverses post-regulation, especially for group firms with higher insider ownership. More so for those with weaker compensating mechanisms or poorer future performance. In essence, regulation exclusively requiring information disclosure has been effective in reallocating capital more efficiently to firms with fewer agency problems.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":46693,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Contemporary Accounting & Economics","volume":"18 3","pages":"Article 100335"},"PeriodicalIF":3.3,"publicationDate":"2022-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136464033","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}
Hang Thu Nguyen , Pascal Alphonse , Hiep Manh Nguyen
{"title":"Financial distress and the accrual anomaly","authors":"Hang Thu Nguyen , Pascal Alphonse , Hiep Manh Nguyen","doi":"10.1016/j.jcae.2022.100319","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jcae.2022.100319","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>We find that the accrual anomaly is concentrated in healthy firms and is absent in financially distressed firms. The differential persistence between accruals and cash flows is the main driver of the relationship. Prior studies propose two explanations for the accrual anomaly: (1) accounting distortions of accruals and (2) investment mispricing. Our empirical evidence supports the former and challenges the latter. Our findings also disagree with the idea that the accrual anomaly is distress risk premium in disguise.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":46693,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Contemporary Accounting & Economics","volume":"18 3","pages":"Article 100319"},"PeriodicalIF":3.3,"publicationDate":"2022-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122842529","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}
{"title":"Does Form 20-F reconciliation elimination for IFRS filers affect the risk forecasting ability of accounting numbers?","authors":"She-Chih Chiu , Hsuan-Chu Lin , Chin-Chen Chien , Chia-Chen Liang","doi":"10.1016/j.jcae.2022.100333","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jcae.2022.100333","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>This study investigates the effect of the elimination of Form 20-F reconciliation items on the risk relevance of accounting information. Using a sample of U.S. companies and American depositary receipts adopting domestic standards that are generally in accordance or fully compliant with IFRS<span>, this paper finds that IFRS better reflect macroeconomic fluctuations after Form 20-F reconciliation elimination. This paper also finds that Form 20-F reconciliation elimination has no negative effect on the usefulness of accounting data under IFRS in the formulation of superior risk forecasts. Further, this paper finds that the elimination of Form 20-F reconciliation items is associated with lower idiosyncratic risk. Overall, the findings indicate some benefits from Form 20-F reconciliation elimination.</span></p></div>","PeriodicalId":46693,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Contemporary Accounting & Economics","volume":"18 3","pages":"Article 100333"},"PeriodicalIF":3.3,"publicationDate":"2022-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124544685","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}
{"title":"Shared auditors, social trust, and relationship-specific investment in the supply chain","authors":"Zhiying Hu , Haiyan Yang , Yuyu Zhang","doi":"10.1016/j.jcae.2022.100329","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jcae.2022.100329","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>An auditor common to a supplier and customer may serve an information role, reduce information asymmetry, or mitigate a potential hold-up problem in the supply chain. The information role of shared auditors could be more important in a lax institutional environment where a lack of trust exists between the supplier and customer. Using a sample of listed firms in China from 2009 to 2015, we find that (1) a shared auditor enhances the supplier’s relationship-specific investment (RSI), and (2) this positive association is stronger when the customer is located in a region with lower trust. We also document an incremental effect of a shared audit partner on enhancing the supplier’s RSI in addition to the effect of a shared auditor at the audit firm level. Additional analyses suggest that a shared auditor alleviates information asymmetry between the supplier and customer and hence improves the supplier’s RSI. A shared auditor particularly improves the supplier’s RSI when the customer is limited in its legal protection, which validates the usefulness of this unique research setting (China) for studying the information role of shared auditors. By extending the research on shared auditors and social trust, this paper provides a reference for companies that wish to explore the role of auditors in enhancing RSI in the supply chain.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":46693,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Contemporary Accounting & Economics","volume":"18 3","pages":"Article 100329"},"PeriodicalIF":3.3,"publicationDate":"2022-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129396052","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}
{"title":"Risk management committees and readability of risk management disclosure","authors":"Jing Jia, Zhongtian Li","doi":"10.1016/j.jcae.2022.100336","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jcae.2022.100336","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>This paper examines whether the presence of risk management committees is associated with the readability of risk management disclosure. Specifically, we consider the presence and the effectiveness of risk management committees. We measure the readability of risk management disclosure using six different readability indices, namely: Bog index; Flesch Reading Ease score; Coleman–Liau index; Flesch–Kincaid Grade level; Simple Measure of Gobbledygook; and Automated Reading index. We find that the presence and the effectiveness of risk management committees are associated with the higher readability of risk management disclosure. We adopt various methods, including an instrumental variable approach, the entropy balancing method and the dynamic generalised method of moments, to address endogeneity concerns. Taken together, our results highlight the important role of the risk management committee in communicating risk management information.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":46693,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Contemporary Accounting & Economics","volume":"18 3","pages":"Article 100336"},"PeriodicalIF":3.3,"publicationDate":"2022-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131928029","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}
{"title":"Determinant of the level of sharia compliance of Islamic banks in Indonesia","authors":"Muhammad Adib Hasani, Rifqi Muhammad","doi":"10.20885/jca.vol4.iss1.art5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.20885/jca.vol4.iss1.art5","url":null,"abstract":"This study aims to examine the relationship between SSB remuneration, SSB cross-membership, board independence, audit committee independence, IAH, leverage, profitability, and firm size to the level of sharia compliance of Islamic banks. In this study, sharia compliance is measured by an index compiled in previous studies. The sample used in this study is 10 Islamic banks that have published annual reports on each website with an observation period between 2015-2020. Multiple regression analysis using EViews 10 application. The results of this study indicate that board independence, audit committee independence, firm size, and SSB cross-membership significantly affect sharia compliance. While SSB remuneration, IAH, leverage, and profitability do not affect the level of sharia compliance.","PeriodicalId":46693,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Contemporary Accounting & Economics","volume":"43 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.3,"publicationDate":"2022-11-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"73868964","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}
{"title":"Fintech lending fraud prevention strategy: A case study","authors":"Bachrudin K Una, H. Prabowo","doi":"10.20885/jca.vol4.iss1.art4","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.20885/jca.vol4.iss1.art4","url":null,"abstract":"This study aims to determine the strategy of the Financial Services Authority (OJK) to prevent people from being trapped in fintech lending fraud. This qualitative research used case study method by employing semi-structured in-depth interview as the technique to collect data from five respondents. The research data were processed with the help of Computer Assisted Qualitative Data Analysis Software (CAQDAS), namely the NVivo 11 software application. The results show that there are three main strategies used by OJK Special Region of Yogyakarta, Indonesia to prevent the public from being scammed by fintech lending: First, massive implementation of financial literacy education in a comprehensive manner to improve public financial literacy; second, use of the Consumer Protection Portal Application (APPK) as a digital complaint service for the public and consumers to report the Financial Services Business Actors (PUJK) who are suspected of committing fintech lending fraud; third, maximizing the role of Regional Investment Alert Task Force (SWID) in publishing a list of legal and illegal financial services, including fintech lending.","PeriodicalId":46693,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Contemporary Accounting & Economics","volume":"14 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.3,"publicationDate":"2022-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"73463550","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}
{"title":"Students’ perceptions of the accounting department on the factors affecting accountants’ ethical behavior","authors":"Umi rizeki Hidayati, Wahyudin Nor, Lili Safrida","doi":"10.20885/jca.vol4.iss1.art3","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.20885/jca.vol4.iss1.art3","url":null,"abstract":"This study was conducted to examine and analyze the influence of academic self-efficacy, fraud diamond, knowledge level, Machiavellian, and love of money on accountants' ethical behavior. Research respondents were students of the Accounting Department University of Lambung Mangkurat Banjarmasin; Sekolah Tinggi Ilmu Ekonomi Indonesia Banjarmasin (STIEI) Banjarmasin; National College of Economics (STIENAS) Banjarmasin; and Pancasetia College of Economics (STIEPAN) Banjarmasin. The data were processed using multiple linear regression analysis with classical assumption test. The results of the research prove that academic self-efficacy and level of knowledge have a significant negative effect on the ethical behavior of accountants. Meanwhile, fraud diamond and machiavellian have an insignificant positive effect on the ethical behavior of accountants, and love of money has a significant positive effect on the ethical behavior of accountants.","PeriodicalId":46693,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Contemporary Accounting & Economics","volume":"81 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.3,"publicationDate":"2022-10-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"90036676","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}
{"title":"Corporate social responsibility committees and the use of corporate social responsibility assurance services","authors":"Michael Bradbury, Jing Jia, Zhongtian Li","doi":"10.1016/j.jcae.2022.100317","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jcae.2022.100317","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>This study examines whether corporate social responsibility<span> (CSR) committees associate with the external assurance of CSR reports. Specifically, we consider the presence and effectiveness of CSR committees. Using a sample of Australian firms over the period 2004–2016, we show the mere presence of a CSR committee is not related to the external assurance of CSR. However, CSR committee effectiveness is positively related. In addition, firms with higher CSR committee effectiveness are more likely to seek external assurance provided by the Big4 accountancy firms and acquire financial audit and CSR assurance services from the same provider. Taken together, CSR committee effectiveness plays an active role in CSR assurance services. Our results are particularly relevant to those with interests in understanding the demand and choice of external CSR assurance services, as well as the impact of corporate governance mechanisms on these services.</span></p></div>","PeriodicalId":46693,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Contemporary Accounting & Economics","volume":"18 2","pages":"Article 100317"},"PeriodicalIF":3.3,"publicationDate":"2022-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114452942","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}