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The power of the business media: Evidence from firm-level productivity 商业媒体的力量：企业生产率的证据
IF 2.9 3区 管理学
Journal of Business Finance & Accounting Pub Date : 2023-04-12 DOI: 10.1111/jbfa.12698
Mariem Khalifa, Ali Sheikhbahaei, Mohammed Aminu Sualihu
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The impact of Confucianism on auditor judgment 儒家思想对审计师判断的影响
IF 2.9 3区 管理学
Journal of Business Finance & Accounting Pub Date : 2023-04-04 DOI: 10.1111/jbfa.12696
Yingwen Deng, Yongliang Wu, Changli Zeng, Min Zhang
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Financial reporting quality and optimal capital structure 财务报告质量和最佳资本结构
IF 2.9 3区 管理学
Journal of Business Finance & Accounting Pub Date : 2023-04-04 DOI: 10.1111/jbfa.12697
Christina Synn, Christopher D. Williams
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An empirical analysis of the effects of the Dodd–Frank Act on determinants of credit ratings 多德-弗兰克法案》对信用评级决定因素影响的实证分析
IF 2.9 3区 管理学
Journal of Business Finance & Accounting Pub Date : 2023-03-19 DOI: 10.1111/jbfa.12695
Anwer S. Ahmed, Dechun Wang, Nina Xu
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Inherited trust and informal finance 继承信任和非正规金融
IF 2.9 3区 管理学
Journal of Business Finance & Accounting Pub Date : 2023-03-01 DOI: 10.1111/jbfa.12694
Jiaman Xu, Jiandong Chen, Mengfei Jiang, Jiafu An
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Skilled labor and bank loan contracting 熟练劳动力和银行贷款承包
IF 2.9 3区 管理学
Journal of Business Finance & Accounting Pub Date : 2023-02-23 DOI: 10.1111/jbfa.12692
Lin Cheng, Rong Li, Zhiming Ma, Lufei Ruan
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Manipulation and obfuscation of financial reports 操纵和混淆财务报告
IF 2.9 3区 管理学
Journal of Business Finance & Accounting Pub Date : 2023-02-22 DOI: 10.1111/jbfa.12693
Nikolaj Niebuhr Lambertsen
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Generalist CEOs, management risk and internal control weaknesses 通用型首席执行官、管理风险和内部控制薄弱环节
IF 2.9 3区 管理学
Journal of Business Finance & Accounting Pub Date : 2023-02-02 DOI: 10.1111/jbfa.12691
Xiaolu Xu
{"title":"Generalist CEOs, management risk and internal control weaknesses","authors":"Xiaolu Xu","doi":"10.1111/jbfa.12691","DOIUrl":"10.1111/jbfa.12691","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This study examines the relationship between CEOs’ general ability and the quality of internal control over financial reporting (ICFR). Using a sample of S&amp;P 1500 firms in the United States from 2004 to 2015, I find that firms with generalist (specialist) CEOs are more (less) likely to report internal control weaknesses under Section 404 of Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 (ICW404). The positive relationship between generalist CEOs and ICW404 is weaker when the management risk is lower (longer CEO tenure). These results are robust to alternative models and approaches to address potential endogeneity issues. Additional analyses suggest that this positive relationship is attributed to generalist CEOs’ excessive risk taking. Furthermore, CEO type is related to company-wide ICW404, ICW404 due to staffing, complexity and general issues, rather than account-specific ICW404 or ICW404 due to revenue recognition issues. Drawing from the Upper Echelons Theory, this study contributes to the research on ICFR quality by documenting CEO type as an additional determinant of ICW404. It highlights the importance of investors, auditors and regulators considering the CEO's career experience and operating style when assessing a firm's internal control environment. It also adds to the literature on general managerial ability by documenting the cost of hiring generalist CEOs regarding ICFR quality.</p>","PeriodicalId":48106,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Business Finance & Accounting","volume":"51 1-2","pages":"209-239"},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2023-02-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135340294","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}
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Corporate political activism, information transparency and IPO compliance costs 公司政治活动、信息透明度和首次公开募股合规成本
IF 2.9 3区 管理学
Journal of Business Finance & Accounting Pub Date : 2023-02-01 DOI: 10.1111/jbfa.12690
Dimitrios Gounopoulos, Georgios Loukopoulos, Panagiotis Loukopoulos
{"title":"Corporate political activism, information transparency and IPO compliance costs","authors":"Dimitrios Gounopoulos,&nbsp;Georgios Loukopoulos,&nbsp;Panagiotis Loukopoulos","doi":"10.1111/jbfa.12690","DOIUrl":"10.1111/jbfa.12690","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Due to their covert and often dubious nature, corporate political activities may encourage or facilitate opportunistic behaviors. Yet, they also subject firms to heightened visibility, which brings greater public and regulatory scrutiny. Using a hand-collected data set of politically connected US initial public offerings (IPOs), we investigate how this tension shapes the financial reporting incentives of firms going public and the accompanying direct compliance costs. Consistent with the agency view of corporate political activism (CPA), politically active IPO issuers have worse financial reporting quality, more litigation risk and eventually pay 28% more accounting fees than their peers. Additional analysis exploiting the US Supreme Court's landmark ruling on Citizens United versus Federal Election Commission suggests that the link between CPA and IPO accounting fees is likely to be causal. Finally, our evidence indicates that the involvement of specialized financial intermediaries in the political process has implications for the IPO financial reporting quality.</p>","PeriodicalId":48106,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Business Finance & Accounting","volume":"51 1-2","pages":"240-275"},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2023-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/jbfa.12690","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136391033","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}
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Managerial ability, CEO age and the moderating effect of firm characteristics 管理能力、首席执行官年龄和公司特征的调节作用
IF 2.9 3区 管理学
Journal of Business Finance & Accounting Pub Date : 2023-01-23 DOI: 10.1111/jbfa.12689
Rosemond Desir, Joseph Rakestraw, Scott Seavey, James Wainberg, George Young
{"title":"Managerial ability, CEO age and the moderating effect of firm characteristics","authors":"Rosemond Desir,&nbsp;Joseph Rakestraw,&nbsp;Scott Seavey,&nbsp;James Wainberg,&nbsp;George Young","doi":"10.1111/jbfa.12689","DOIUrl":"10.1111/jbfa.12689","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Recent surveys indicate that America's chief executive officers (CEOs) are getting older. While aging is often associated with greater experience, improved skill sets and higher job performance, prior research warns that aging can also lead to a significant decrease in cognitive function, energy, ambition and, consequently, the ability of CEOs to manage their firms. We examine this issue and find that older CEOs display significantly lower managerial ability as compared to younger CEOs. Exploring differences in firm factors, we further find that older CEOs exhibit significantly lower managerial ability when managing high-technology firms and significantly higher managerial ability when managing more mature, highly regulated firms. Collectively, our study provides new evidence that while managerial ability decreases with age, firm characteristics significantly moderate this relationship.</p>","PeriodicalId":48106,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Business Finance & Accounting","volume":"51 1-2","pages":"148-179"},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2023-01-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136371397","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}
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