Accounting ForumPub Date : 2023-01-29DOI: 10.1080/01559982.2022.2158520
L. Moore, Sunita S. Rao
{"title":"Moving beyond experts’ answers: unmasking silences of the social in management accounting courses","authors":"L. Moore, Sunita S. Rao","doi":"10.1080/01559982.2022.2158520","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/01559982.2022.2158520","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47566,"journal":{"name":"Accounting Forum","volume":"44 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.1,"publicationDate":"2023-01-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"84572044","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Accounting ForumPub Date : 2023-01-22DOI: 10.1080/01559982.2022.2163040
M. Namazi, G. Rezaei
{"title":"Modelling the role of strategic planning, strategic management accounting information system, and psychological factors on the budgetary slack","authors":"M. Namazi, G. Rezaei","doi":"10.1080/01559982.2022.2163040","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/01559982.2022.2163040","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47566,"journal":{"name":"Accounting Forum","volume":"16 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.1,"publicationDate":"2023-01-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"73693691","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The role of the EU non-financial reporting directive and employee representation in employee-related disclosures","authors":"Niuosha Samani, Conny Overland, Svetlana Sabelfeld","doi":"10.1080/01559982.2022.2158773","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/01559982.2022.2158773","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This study investigates how the European Union (EU) Directive (2014/95) on Non-Financial Reporting and employee representation within the board affects the extent and quality of employee-related disclosures. Using a sample of Swedish firms listed on the Nasdaq OMX Stockholm Exchange, we find that both the Directive and employee representation on the board positively affect the extent and quality of disclosures on employee-related matters. We document that employee-related disclosures are more precise and less uncertain among firms with employee representatives, although the level of uncertainty increases after implementing the Directive. Moreover, our interaction analysis indicates that the Directive and employee representatives affect employee-related disclosures independently. This finding suggests that both internal corporate governance and external regulation are important, and that the Directive ensures a minimum extent of disclosures at firms that lack internal governance mechanisms (i.e. employee representation on their corporate boards).","PeriodicalId":47566,"journal":{"name":"Accounting Forum","volume":"10 1","pages":"278 - 306"},"PeriodicalIF":3.1,"publicationDate":"2023-01-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"89119437","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Accounting ForumPub Date : 2022-12-19DOI: 10.1080/01559982.2022.2151963
S. Sian
{"title":"Remote audit: the challenges of re-creating the audit room during the Covid 19 pandemic","authors":"S. Sian","doi":"10.1080/01559982.2022.2151963","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/01559982.2022.2151963","url":null,"abstract":"As in many other countries, the UK Government responded to the spread of the Covid 19 virus by announcing a stay-at-home policy that came into effect on 23rd March, 2020. The disruption caused by the pandemic and the sudden requirement for auditors to work from home presented some significant challenges as audit teams set about re-creating a virtual audit room. Drawing on data gathered through online interviews with audit team members and leaders at various levels within the firm hierarchy, this study examines how they continued to deliver professional services whilst negotiating challenges such as communication in the absence of face-to-face engagement, gathering audit evidence remotely and coaching/interaction in a virtual setting. The study finds that the enforced move to remote working has demonstrated that the traditional audit work model and the expectation of \"being present\" is not as entrenched as the literature suggests. Through identifying and understanding the challenges of remote audit work, the study also raises questions regarding the transformative power and potential of this episode for future work patterns within audit firms. This is important because research shows that employees are, on the whole, keen to work from home more often in the future and there is evidence that audit firms anticipate and recognise that the future of the audit work model is likely to take a more hybrid form.","PeriodicalId":47566,"journal":{"name":"Accounting Forum","volume":"32 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.1,"publicationDate":"2022-12-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"82257801","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Accounting ForumPub Date : 2022-12-12DOI: 10.1080/01559982.2022.2151074
N. Liu, Brian M. Lam, Kevin Ow Yong, D. Yuen
{"title":"Social capital and management commitment","authors":"N. Liu, Brian M. Lam, Kevin Ow Yong, D. Yuen","doi":"10.1080/01559982.2022.2151074","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/01559982.2022.2151074","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47566,"journal":{"name":"Accounting Forum","volume":"32 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.1,"publicationDate":"2022-12-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"90218456","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Accounting ForumPub Date : 2022-12-07DOI: 10.1080/01559982.2022.2151073
V. Tawiah, T. Soobaroyen
{"title":"The relationship between the adoption of international public sector accounting standards and sources of government financing: evidence from developing countries","authors":"V. Tawiah, T. Soobaroyen","doi":"10.1080/01559982.2022.2151073","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/01559982.2022.2151073","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47566,"journal":{"name":"Accounting Forum","volume":"47 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.1,"publicationDate":"2022-12-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"76556741","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Accounting ForumPub Date : 2022-12-07DOI: 10.1080/01559982.2022.2149441
João Paulo Resende de Lima, Silvia Pereira de Castro Casa Nova, Fernanda Filgueiras Sauerbronn, Marcelo Castañeda
{"title":"“Is it just a little flu”? Producing a news-based counter account on Covid-19 discursive crises in Brazil","authors":"João Paulo Resende de Lima, Silvia Pereira de Castro Casa Nova, Fernanda Filgueiras Sauerbronn, Marcelo Castañeda","doi":"10.1080/01559982.2022.2149441","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/01559982.2022.2149441","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47566,"journal":{"name":"Accounting Forum","volume":"18 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.1,"publicationDate":"2022-12-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"73034479","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Accounting ForumPub Date : 2022-12-02DOI: 10.1080/01559982.2022.2149045
Sabina Du Rietz
{"title":"Making up circular consumers: young adults’ personal accounting and counter earmarking within a circular deposit-refund scheme","authors":"Sabina Du Rietz","doi":"10.1080/01559982.2022.2149045","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/01559982.2022.2149045","url":null,"abstract":"<p><b>ABSTRACT</b></p><p>Organising waste disposal to achieve waste recovery, i.e. circular solutions, requires the active participation of citizens (Hänninen, 1995). For this purpose, schemes are put in place to “make up”, and shape, circular consumers who will return waste. These schemes tend to rely on calculative mechanisms to influence individuals’ decision-making in the desired direction. The present work studies one such government-mandated scheme, the Swedish deposit-refund system for beverage containers. The deposit-refund incentive requires customers purchasing a beverage to pay a deposit which is refunded if/when the beverage container is handed in for recycling. Using focus groups to study Swedish young adults subject to the scheme, the study aims to expand academic knowledge of the role of accounting, and particularly personal accounting, within circular schemes. The study finds that the official scheme rarely succeeds in imposing its deposit-refund accounting categories. Instead, there are plentiful examples of what Zelizer (1994) calls “counter earmarking”, i.e. personal accounting at odds with the official scheme. Exploring the young adults’ counter earmarking practices, the study shows the difficulty of imposing an accounting ideology onto individuals.</p>","PeriodicalId":47566,"journal":{"name":"Accounting Forum","volume":"56 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.1,"publicationDate":"2022-12-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138530254","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Accounting ForumPub Date : 2022-12-02DOI: 10.1080/01559982.2022.2147470
Zhangfan Cao, Steven Xianglong Chen, Mengfei Jiang, Mengyuan Xiang
{"title":"Internal control weakness and corporate employment decisions: evidence from SOX Section 404 disclosures","authors":"Zhangfan Cao, Steven Xianglong Chen, Mengfei Jiang, Mengyuan Xiang","doi":"10.1080/01559982.2022.2147470","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/01559982.2022.2147470","url":null,"abstract":"<p><b>ABSTRACT</b></p><p>This study investigates the impact of material internal control weaknesses on corporate employment decisions. We find that, on average, ineffective internal control is significantly related to lower efficiency in employment decisions. We also find that firms with material internal control weaknesses are associated with both over-investment and under-investment in labour. Further analysis suggests that the negative impact of internal control weaknesses on employment decisions is predominantly driven by more severe types of weakness that have a pervasive effect on internal reporting and those related to core accounts. Moreover, our change analysis shows that the remediation of material weaknesses contributes to an improvement in labour investment efficiency. Finally, consistent with the effective monitoring role of high-skilled employees, our subsample analysis indicates that the negative impact of internal control weaknesses on labour investment efficiency is mitigated in firms with high reliance on human capital. Our findings are robust to various sensitivity checks including propensity score matching, entropy balancing, removal of observations during the financial crisis, various measures for the efficiency of investment in labour, and the adjustment for employing residuals as outcome variables. Overall, our study contributes to the ongoing debate on the net benefits of SOX 404 by highlighting the significant value of internal control systems to efficient human capital investment and provides timely implications for managers and regulators.</p>","PeriodicalId":47566,"journal":{"name":"Accounting Forum","volume":"20 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.1,"publicationDate":"2022-12-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138530259","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Accounting ForumPub Date : 2022-11-17DOI: 10.1080/01559982.2022.2140887
Agustín J. Sánchez-Medina, Mónica Ramos-Montesdeoca, Félix Blázquez-Santana
{"title":"Knowing the accounting fraudster: the influence of individual anomie and displacement of responsibility and moral justification as mediating variables","authors":"Agustín J. Sánchez-Medina, Mónica Ramos-Montesdeoca, Félix Blázquez-Santana","doi":"10.1080/01559982.2022.2140887","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/01559982.2022.2140887","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47566,"journal":{"name":"Accounting Forum","volume":"3 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.1,"publicationDate":"2022-11-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"87755810","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}