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Algorithmic self-referentiality: How machine learning pushes calculative practices to assess themselves 算法的自我推论：机器学习如何推动计算实践自我评估

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Accounting Organizations and Society Pub Date : 2024-08-14 DOI: 10.1016/j.aos.2024.101567

Yuval Millo , Crawford Spence , Ruowen Xu

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Becoming influential: Strategies of control, expertise, and socialisation in transnational governance of accounting regulation 变得有影响力：会计监管跨国治理中的控制、专业知识和社会化战略

IF 3.6 2区管理学

Accounting Organizations and Society Pub Date : 2024-08-05 DOI: 10.1016/j.aos.2024.101566

Jan Friedrich , Tessa Kunkel , Matthias Thiemann

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Audit firms’ corporate social responsibility activities and auditor reputation 审计公司的企业社会责任活动与审计师声誉

IF 3.6 2区管理学

Accounting Organizations and Society Pub Date : 2024-08-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.aos.2024.101569

Joshua L. Gunn , Chan Li , Lin Liao , Jinxuan Yang , Shan Zhou

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Accounting for sustainability and climate change: Special section overview 可持续性和气候变化核算：特别章节概述

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Accounting Organizations and Society Pub Date : 2024-07-29 DOI: 10.1016/j.aos.2024.101568

Hans Christensen , Jeffrey Hales , Brendan O'Dwyer , Mark E. Peecher

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When being recognized makes employees feel less appreciated: Evidence regarding when and why peer-to-peer recognition could backfire 什么情况下被认可会让员工感觉不到被赏识：关于同侪表扬何时以及为何会适得其反的证据

IF 3.6 2区管理学

Accounting Organizations and Society Pub Date : 2024-07-20 DOI: 10.1016/j.aos.2024.101565

Paul W. Black , Mark S. Cecchini , Andrew H. Newman

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The effects of a client's social media disclosure and audience engagement on auditor judgment 客户社交媒体披露和受众参与对审计师判断的影响

IF 3.6 2区管理学

Accounting Organizations and Society Pub Date : 2024-07-20 DOI: 10.1016/j.aos.2024.101564

Sanaz Aghazadeh , J.Owen Brown , Laura Guichard Latiolais , Thomas J. Phillips Jr.

{"title":"The effects of a client's social media disclosure and audience engagement on auditor judgment","authors":"Sanaz Aghazadeh , J.Owen Brown , Laura Guichard Latiolais , Thomas J. Phillips Jr.","doi":"10.1016/j.aos.2024.101564","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.aos.2024.101564","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>The rapid rise of social media enables companies to disclose information to the public instantly. Thus, auditors may initially receive client information via a client's social media account instead of through private, client-to-auditor communication. Drawing on Social Penetration Theory, we conduct an experiment to investigate how a client's initial disclosure via social media (versus private disclosure) and audience engagement of the client's posts (e.g., number of “likes,” “replies,” and “reposts”) affects auditors' perception of the auditor-client relationship and their evaluation of the client-provided information. We find that when auditors initially receive client information via social media with high audience engagement, they are less willing to accept the client's preference than when the same information is disclosed privately or publicly with minimal audience engagement. Our findings are consistent with auditors perceiving client disclosure via social media with high audience engagement as a significant violation of their communication expectations such that their relational closeness with the client weakens and causes them to respond critically. We contribute to the literature on the use of social media for corporate disclosure, which has implications for the auditor-client relationship and audit quality.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":48379,"journal":{"name":"Accounting Organizations and Society","volume":"113 ","pages":"Article 101564"},"PeriodicalIF":3.6,"publicationDate":"2024-07-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141732244","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"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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Opinion shopping for tax advice: The effects of client narcissism, social bonds, and message framing 税务咨询的意见购物：客户自恋、社会纽带和信息框架的影响

IF 4.7 2区管理学

Accounting Organizations and Society Pub Date : 2024-06-14 DOI: 10.1016/j.aos.2024.101562

Steven E. Kaszak , Govind S. Iyer , Philip M.J. Reckers

{"title":"Opinion shopping for tax advice: The effects of client narcissism, social bonds, and message framing","authors":"Steven E. Kaszak , Govind S. Iyer , Philip M.J. Reckers","doi":"10.1016/j.aos.2024.101562","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.aos.2024.101562","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Contentious interactions can arise between a tax professional and client upon disagreement over a tax position. These interpersonal exchanges can lead to “opinion shopping” and represent a threat to voluntary tax compliance and the public interest. Opinion shopping is likely to increase in an era of rising narcissism because antagonistic narcissists are known to react aggressively to rejection of their views. To better understand drivers of opinion shopping, we conduct a quasi-experiment with 222 U.S taxpayers. We find clients with higher (<em>lower</em>) levels of antagonistic narcissism are more (<em>less</em>) likely to opinion shop and switch to another tax preparer. We also examine the efficacy of two theory-motivated moderators of client antagonistic narcissism: [1] tax professional – client social bonds and [2] persuasive messaging by the advisor. By doing so, we respond to calls to explore moderating influences on the undesirable effects of antagonistic narcissism while also providing novel insight into factors influencing taxpayer clients’ decision-making following interpersonal exchanges with a tax advisor. We find that while close social bonds and sanction warnings reduce opinion shopping among participants lower in antagonistic narcissism, they fail to do so among participants higher in antagonistic narcissism. Theory provides no basis for predicting a three-way interaction, and we find none. Contributions to the research literature, as well as implications for tax practice and policy internationally, are also discussed.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":48379,"journal":{"name":"Accounting Organizations and Society","volume":"113 ","pages":"Article 101562"},"PeriodicalIF":4.7,"publicationDate":"2024-06-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141324325","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"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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Strengthening the CEO–CFO interplay: The role of regulatory focus and similar compensation plans 加强首席执行官与财务总监之间的相互作用：监管重点和类似薪酬计划的作用

IF 4.7 2区管理学

Accounting Organizations and Society Pub Date : 2024-06-14 DOI: 10.1016/j.aos.2024.101563

Sebastian Firk , Nina Detzen , Jan C. Hennig , Michael Wolff

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Costs and benefits of a risk-based PCAOB inspection regime 基于风险的 PCAOB 检查制度的成本和收益

IF 4.7 2区管理学

Accounting Organizations and Society Pub Date : 2024-06-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.aos.2024.101552

Brant E. Christensen , Nathan J. Newton , Michael S. Wilkins

{"title":"Costs and benefits of a risk-based PCAOB inspection regime","authors":"Brant E. Christensen , Nathan J. Newton , Michael S. Wilkins","doi":"10.1016/j.aos.2024.101552","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.aos.2024.101552","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>We investigate the costs and benefits of the PCAOB's risk-based inspection regime by studying how auditors respond to engagement-level inspection risk. Using an established inspection selection model, we find evidence that auditors behave consistent with accountability theory when auditing clients with elevated ex-ante inspection risk. Specifically, we observe an increased propensity to report material weaknesses, a decreased propensity to assert that previous material weaknesses have been remediated, increased audit effort, and a decreased likelihood of subsequent financial statement restatement. In general, these outcomes reflect auditors' attempts to minimize negative inspection outcomes in a way that could be beneficial to investors. However, auditors' apparent focus on relative inspection risk also creates potential costs for investors as evidenced by an increased likelihood of resignation from the client and inattention to clients with relatively <em>lower</em> inspection risk when auditor resources are most constrained. Importantly, several tests provide evidence that auditors' response to inspection risk is distinct from and incremental to their response to misstatement risk. Overall, our findings suggest that there are potential benefits and potential costs associated with auditors' responses to a selection approach that is primarily risk-based.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":48379,"journal":{"name":"Accounting Organizations and Society","volume":"112 ","pages":"Article 101552"},"PeriodicalIF":4.7,"publicationDate":"2024-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141190290","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"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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The recognition and negotiation of class-based barriers to progression and inclusion in accounting professional services firms 认识并协商会计专业服务公司中基于阶级的进步和包容障碍

IF 4.7 2区管理学

Accounting Organizations and Society Pub Date : 2024-05-03 DOI: 10.1016/j.aos.2024.101551

Christopher Flanagan, Yvonne Joyce

{"title":"The recognition and negotiation of class-based barriers to progression and inclusion in accounting professional services firms","authors":"Christopher Flanagan, Yvonne Joyce","doi":"10.1016/j.aos.2024.101551","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.aos.2024.101551","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Drawing on interviews with accountants working at professional services firms (PSFs) in the UK, we explore how reflexivity enables accountants to recognise and negotiate class-based barriers to progression and inclusion. We identify a range of reflexive practices (including conversations with colleagues and clients, observations, mentoring, mulling over, and imagining) and show how these interact with <em>habitus</em> to structure the individual (mis)recognition of class-based barriers in the workplace. We find that reflexivity can engender an awareness of ‘difference’ and sense of inferiority relative to others, primarily for those from less privileged backgrounds. We provide evidence of the enabling role of reflexive practices which lead to purposive action for negotiating class-based barriers. However, we also find that reflexivity can lead to idiosyncratic strategies which support assimilation to (rather than challenging) existing practices in the accounting field. We find contradictory accounts of the effects of class, where class is recognised as a barrier, yet individuals are thought to progress through merit. We explain this tension through the limitations of reflexivity, restricted opportunities <em>for</em> reflexivity, and misrecognition of the effects of class in a seemingly meritocratic system. We provide examples of enduring and unrecognised class-based inequalities in accounting PSFs, including team composition and work allocation, class-segmented service lines, and the long-term consequences for those from less privileged backgrounds of having to work harder to ‘reach the same level’. Our findings suggest that PSFs must facilitate ‘difficult’ conversations aimed at breaking the culture of silence around class.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":48379,"journal":{"name":"Accounting Organizations and Society","volume":"112 ","pages":"Article 101551"},"PeriodicalIF":4.7,"publicationDate":"2024-05-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0361368224000114/pdfft?md5=deaf34e05de27d98ac74dd8a7b4a54a5&pid=1-s2.0-S0361368224000114-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140822909","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"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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