{"title":"The hidden cost of organisation capital: Evidence from trade credit","authors":"Joye Khoo , Adrian (Wai Kong) Cheung","doi":"10.1016/j.bar.2023.101238","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.bar.2023.101238","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div><span>Organisation capital is an important firm-specific resource that is linked to value created by key talents, and the risk arising from the unexpected departure of key talents is detrimental to the firm. We find that trade credit decreases with organisation capital, particularly when labour mobility is greater or employees have more outside opportunities. This supports the </span><em>agency view</em> of organisation capital. However, when the threat of losing key talents is low, such as during the global financial crisis, the <em>efficiency view</em> of organisation capital prevails, making firms with high organisation capital more attractive customers for suppliers. The evidence is robust to endogeneity tests.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47996,"journal":{"name":"British Accounting Review","volume":"56 6","pages":"Article 101238"},"PeriodicalIF":5.5,"publicationDate":"2024-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42449216","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}
Shujie Liu , Mohammed Aminu Sualihu , Mingwei Sun , Alfred Yawson
{"title":"Exploring the acquisition behavior of penny stock firms","authors":"Shujie Liu , Mohammed Aminu Sualihu , Mingwei Sun , Alfred Yawson","doi":"10.1016/j.bar.2023.101276","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.bar.2023.101276","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div><span>We document that penny stock firms' acquisition likelihood increases with firm size, sales growth, free cash flow, stock price volatility, and run-up, but decreases with leverage, the number of years since IPO, and Tobin's Q. These findings are validated in a stepwise regression framework and are robust to alternative model specifications. Penny stock acquirers prefer public targets and are more (less) likely to use stocks (cash) as the payment method. We also find that acquisitions announcement returns are higher for penny stock firms than for non-penny stock firms, even after accounting for firm- and deal-characteristics. Further analyses indicate that the increase in announcement returns is driven by the firm's improved information environment. Overall, we document that penny stock firms are significant players in the market for </span>corporate control.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47996,"journal":{"name":"British Accounting Review","volume":"56 6","pages":"Article 101276"},"PeriodicalIF":5.5,"publicationDate":"2024-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135714539","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}
Lemonia M. Rempoutsika , Dimitris K. Chronopoulos , Linh Nguyen , John O.S. Wilson
{"title":"Deposit insurance and credit union earnings opacity","authors":"Lemonia M. Rempoutsika , Dimitris K. Chronopoulos , Linh Nguyen , John O.S. Wilson","doi":"10.1016/j.bar.2024.101486","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.bar.2024.101486","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This study examines the impact of deposit insurance coverage on credit union earnings opacity. For identification, we employ the provisions outlined in Section 136 of the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act, which raised the upper limit of deposit insurance coverage from $100,000 to $250,000. Using variation in insured deposits brought about by the differential impact of the change to deposit insurance arrangements and a difference-in-differences approach, we find that credit unions experiencing a substantial rise in insured deposits tend to exercise more discretion over loan loss provisions, leading to an increase in earnings opacity. This is most evident for small and medium sized credit unions.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47996,"journal":{"name":"British Accounting Review","volume":"56 6","pages":"Article 101486"},"PeriodicalIF":5.5,"publicationDate":"2024-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0890838924002634/pdfft?md5=828d8282b4b75f17e9df45b590523904&pid=1-s2.0-S0890838924002634-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142231924","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Yongwei Ye , Dongmin Kong , Renzhi Li , Xiaofan Li , Yunqing Tao
{"title":"Online judicial auction, loan availability, and corporate investment in China","authors":"Yongwei Ye , Dongmin Kong , Renzhi Li , Xiaofan Li , Yunqing Tao","doi":"10.1016/j.bar.2024.101487","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.bar.2024.101487","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Online judicial auctions can significantly impact corporate investment by enhancing creditor protection and facilitating loan availability. Using a dynamic difference-in-differences strategy, we find that the reform significantly boosts corporate investment. Mechanism tests reveal that the reform boosts corporate investment by improving corporate loan availability and creditors' willingness to lend. The effect is more pronounced in regions with high judicial auction turnover, high public participation, poorer legal environments, and lower banking competition, suggesting that these reforms enhance legal system efficiency and market competition. Additionally, we find that judicial auction reform reduces firms’ precautionary savings and fosters regional economic development. Overall, our study contributes to understanding the important role of creditor protection in corporate investment and provides insights for implementing digital judicial reforms.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47996,"journal":{"name":"British Accounting Review","volume":"56 6","pages":"Article 101487"},"PeriodicalIF":5.5,"publicationDate":"2024-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142312625","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":"The capital market consequence of sustained abnormal Audit fees: Evidence from stock price crash risk","authors":"Sang Mook Lee , Jong Chool Park , Hakjoon Song","doi":"10.1016/j.bar.2024.101387","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.bar.2024.101387","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Prior studies provide mixed interpretations for the effect of abnormal audit fees on audit quality. One interpretation is that abnormal audit fees reflect economic bonding which decreases audit quality, while the other interpretation is that they are associated with unobserved audit efforts and audit risk. We argue that long-term abnormal audit fees clarify mixed evidence, as they reflect the gradual formation and development of both economic bonding and sustained auditor efforts over time. We examine the effect of long-term abnormal audit fees on audit quality by focusing on client's future stock price crash risk. Using 42,604 firm-year observations of U.S. firms, we find that sustained positive abnormal audit fees (consistently positive long-term abnormal audit fees) are negatively associated with future stock price crash risk, supporting the auditor effort argument and negating the economic bonding argument. We also find weak evidence that current-period abnormal audit fees are positively associated with future stock price crash risk, supporting the audit risk argument. Overall, our evidence shows that the magnitude and the pattern of long-term abnormal audit fees jointly affect audit quality in mitigating a client's bad news hoarding behavior.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47996,"journal":{"name":"British Accounting Review","volume":"56 6","pages":"Article 101387"},"PeriodicalIF":5.5,"publicationDate":"2024-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140643249","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":"Key audit matters disclosures and informed traders","authors":"Zabihollah Rezaee , Saeid Homayoun","doi":"10.1016/j.bar.2024.101386","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.bar.2024.101386","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>We examine whether the audit regulation<span><span> of disclosing key audit matters (KAM) provides value-relevant information to short sellers as informed investors. The theoretical underpinning for examining short sellers' ability and incentives to use KAM disclosures in their stock valuation implications is based on a prediction theory and a skilled information processing theory of short sellers. Using a sample of expanded </span>auditor's reports from UK-listed firms during the 2010–2017 period and hand-collecting a dataset of KAM disclosures, we find no evidence that the short interest is different for the period before than after the U.K.'s expanded auditor's report regulation. However, in our cross-sectional tests, we find that KAM disclosures have a marginal effect on short interest and a positive association between short interest and unexpected and severe KAM disclosures. We conclude that, except for severe KAM that is value-relevant to sophisticated investors, the disclosures in the expanded auditor's report have no valuation implications for short sellers. Our results are robust in examining the reactions of the financial market and analysts to KAM disclosures and addressing potential endogeneity concerns.</span></div></div>","PeriodicalId":47996,"journal":{"name":"British Accounting Review","volume":"56 6","pages":"Article 101386"},"PeriodicalIF":5.5,"publicationDate":"2024-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140779030","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}
Ruizhe Wang , Wai Fong Chua , Roger Simnett , Shan Zhou
{"title":"Is greater connectivity of financial and non-financial information in annual reports valued by market participants?","authors":"Ruizhe Wang , Wai Fong Chua , Roger Simnett , Shan Zhou","doi":"10.1016/j.bar.2024.101407","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.bar.2024.101407","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The establishment of the International Sustainability Standards Board (ISSB), and the endorsement by the International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) foundation of the principles underlying the Integrated Reporting (IR) Framework, attest to a regulatory intent to develop a disclosure framework better connecting sustainability-related financial disclosures with financial disclosures. Strategic Reporting (SR), effective in the United Kingdom (U.K.) since 2013, is a prime example of such a framework. Utilizing proprietary data from PwC U.K., we find higher SR disclosure quality is associated with higher liquidity, lower cost of capital, and more accurate, less dispersed analysts’ forecasts. We then hypothesize and compare these impacts with the capital market effects of disclosure quality under the reporting framework preceding SR. We find that the effects of higher liquidity and lower cost of capital are more pronounced under SR, suggesting that SR, as a mandated, more connected reporting framework, enables more effective capital market communication. We also find that the incremental capital market benefits are more significant for entities with higher exposure to the change, better sustainability performance and higher organizational complexity. For regulators and standard setters, these findings indicate that their emphasis on greater connectivity of financial and non-financial information is valued by market participants.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47996,"journal":{"name":"British Accounting Review","volume":"56 6","pages":"Article 101407"},"PeriodicalIF":5.5,"publicationDate":"2024-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0890838924001641/pdfft?md5=cba492ad19900a8084f8b8fb25cb6ee9&pid=1-s2.0-S0890838924001641-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141329542","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Mimicking crypto portfolios in sustainable investment","authors":"Mengxia Yu , Ke Xu , Xinwei Zheng","doi":"10.1016/j.bar.2024.101463","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.bar.2024.101463","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>In this paper, considering the difference in the energy demand level, we utilize the daily pricing data from 10/01/2019 to 06/30/2023 to construct mimicking crypto portfolios with 12 clean cryptocurrencies to replace the dirty cryptocurrency, Bitcoin (BTC). With a monthly rebalancing strategy, the mimicking portfolio closely matches the exposures to the risk factors of the BTC but with fewer specific risks. Furthermore, relying on the bivariate dynamic conditional correlation (DCC-) GARCH model, we compare the hedging capability of BTC and the corresponding mimicking crypto portfolio against movements of returns of sustainable assets. The empirical results show that the mimicking crypto portfolio provides ESG investors with a cheaper hedge tool of higher hedge effectiveness compared to the BTC. Moreover, we find that the mimicking crypto portfolio can act as a strong safe haven for the S&P Global Clean Energy Index and S&P Latin America Emerging LargeMidCap ESG Index during periods of market stress. Therefore, the mimicking crypto portfolio is a more attractive option for ESG investors due to its superior hedging efficiency and the added environmental advantages.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47996,"journal":{"name":"British Accounting Review","volume":"56 6","pages":"Article 101463"},"PeriodicalIF":5.5,"publicationDate":"2024-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0890838924002270/pdfft?md5=c977104002f95322f9c0f54de4b08f26&pid=1-s2.0-S0890838924002270-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142100791","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Mostafa Monzur Hasan , Md Borhan Uddin Bhuiyan , Grantley Taylor
{"title":"Corporate culture and carbon emission performance","authors":"Mostafa Monzur Hasan , Md Borhan Uddin Bhuiyan , Grantley Taylor","doi":"10.1016/j.bar.2024.101462","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.bar.2024.101462","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Using a large sample of U.S. firms from 2002 to 2020, we investigate the relationship between corporate culture and the extent of carbon emissions. We provide evidence that the quantum of carbon emissions is negatively associated with corporate cultural attributes manifested by integrity, teamwork, innovation, and respect. These results hold after controlling for potential endogeneity issues using several identification techniques. We also document that the negative culture–emissions relationship is magnified in firms with weak corporate governance and in those operating in environmentally sensitive industries. Additionally, this relationship is less salient in the presence of social capital. Finally, we demonstrate that in firms with a stronger culture, elevated carbon emissions result in a lower firm value. Our findings may be of interest to environmental regulators and management in their pursuit of firm-level carbon emission targets.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47996,"journal":{"name":"British Accounting Review","volume":"56 6","pages":"Article 101462"},"PeriodicalIF":5.5,"publicationDate":"2024-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0890838924002269/pdfft?md5=e92888a5dafa7700ee6273fe8bf8a7ba&pid=1-s2.0-S0890838924002269-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142100793","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Epidemic experience, analyst sentiment, and earnings forecasts: Evidence from SARS exposure","authors":"Lihua Liu , Dongmin Kong","doi":"10.1016/j.bar.2024.101452","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.bar.2024.101452","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This study examines whether exposure to dangerous infectious diseases affects how analysts assess risks. We use the outbreaks of the severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) at analysts' previous office locations across China as a plausibly exogenous shock in the analysts' life experience. We show that compared to their less-affected counterparts, analysts in provinces with more SARS cases issue more optimistic forecasts for firms. This effect is stronger for affected analysts in provinces perceived as more salient during the SARS epidemic period. Mechanism tests show a high level of unexpected economic growth and positive media reports can motivate optimistic forecast bias induced by SARS exposure. Further heterogeneity tests indicate that our findings are particularly pronounced among busier analysts, those with less industry specialization, and female analysts. Overall, these findings suggest that exposure to the SARS epidemic influences the information intermediaries’ judgment.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47996,"journal":{"name":"British Accounting Review","volume":"56 6","pages":"Article 101452"},"PeriodicalIF":5.5,"publicationDate":"2024-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142312557","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}