{"title":"The Costs of Being Stuck in Traffic: Evidence from Debt Contracting","authors":"Jie Hao, Viet Tuan Pham","doi":"10.1016/j.bar.2026.101900","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bar.2026.101900","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":501001,"journal":{"name":"The British Accounting Review","volume":"14 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2026-03-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147501719","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The effects of psychological capital on accountants’ fraud reporting intentions","authors":"Steven E. Kaplan, Carly Moulang, Xinning Xiao","doi":"10.1016/j.bar.2026.101893","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bar.2026.101893","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":501001,"journal":{"name":"The British Accounting Review","volume":"17 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2026-03-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147495417","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The hidden toll: The impact of segment asset disclosure cessation on analyst forecast properties","authors":"Maiying Sui, Yi Wu","doi":"10.1016/j.bar.2026.101877","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bar.2026.101877","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":501001,"journal":{"name":"The British Accounting Review","volume":"55 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2026-03-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147360486","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The impact of diversification on industry effects in firm profitability forecasting","authors":"Zongxi Chen, Andrew B. Jackson","doi":"10.1016/j.bar.2026.101876","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bar.2026.101876","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":501001,"journal":{"name":"The British Accounting Review","volume":"12 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2026-03-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147360487","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Introducing climate-related sustainability into accounting curricula: Legitimacy and institutional entrepreneurs","authors":"Amrinder Khosa, Carla Wilkin, Rakesh Pandey","doi":"10.1016/j.bar.2026.101871","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bar.2026.101871","url":null,"abstract":"Increasingly, in their annual reporting, companies are required to disclose climate-related sustainability risks and opportunities, including their governance and the effects on strategy and finance. While this generates legitimate need for accountants’ knowledge, skills, and capabilities about the entailed accounting practices, evidence suggests some levels of unpreparedness by the profession. Accordingly, our study explores the role of accounting academics in adapting university accounting curricula to prepare future accounting professionals. Based on interviews with 30 academics in Australian and New Zealand universities, findings show curricula adaptations are currently being achieved by entrepreneurial educators whose actions are underpinned by their commitment to societal and regulatory expectations for climate-related sustainability. Participants’ belief in the cognitive and moral legitimacy of adapting curricula to prepare students for professional accounting roles is sustaining their actions. Our focus on the micro-foundations of change show academics’ agency has two dimensions: reflective evaluation of their current position (cognitively valuing the need for accounting education to develop requisite skills), and pre-reflective consideration of their own moral and ethical values (derived from prior knowledge and commitments). As such, some structural constraints affecting change to accounting curricula are being obviated by enabling conditions associated with global imperatives for climate-related sustainability.","PeriodicalId":501001,"journal":{"name":"The British Accounting Review","volume":"225 1","pages":"101871"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2026-02-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147351292","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Diverse Effects of Different Types of Media Coverage on Audit Fees: Evidence Based on Media Tones","authors":"Jean Jinghan Chen, Stephen Gong, Fai Lim Loi","doi":"10.1016/j.bar.2026.101875","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bar.2026.101875","url":null,"abstract":"This paper investigates the relationship between different types of media coverage and audit fees. We theoretically and empirically distinguish between the media’s information and monitoring role resulting from impartial, neutral coverage, which is associated with lower audit risk, and the media’s attention-grabbing role resulting from sensational or biased reporting, which is associated with higher auditor business risk. Using data from US public firms between 2003 and 2021, we find that client firms with large amounts of neutral media coverage pay lower audit fees, consistent with the neutral coverage hypothesis, whereas those with large amounts of (especially negatively) toned media coverage pay higher audit fees, consistent with the attention-grabbing hypothesis. We find media’s attention-grabbing effect to be stronger for client firms of large auditors and firms with more analysts following and high institutional ownership. Our channel analyses suggest that auditors adjust risk assessments and expected audit effort in response to media coverage. Overall, the findings indicate diverse effects of different types of media coverage on audit fees and highlight the complex interplays among auditors, media, and major market participants.","PeriodicalId":501001,"journal":{"name":"The British Accounting Review","volume":"21 1","pages":"101875"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2026-02-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147351293","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Risk, reward, and receivables: Unpacking the impact of overconfident CEOs","authors":"Nga Nguyen, Thanh Vu, Kiet Tuan Duong","doi":"10.1016/j.bar.2026.101844","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bar.2026.101844","url":null,"abstract":"This study examines the impact of CEO overconfidence on trade credit provision and finds that suppliers led by overconfident CEOs tend to have significantly longer trade receivable periods compared to their peers with non-overconfident CEOs. Our results remain robust across a comprehensive set of validation tests, including alternative CEO-overconfidence measures, propensity score matching, entropy-balancing procedures, and analyses surrounding CEO-turnover events. We further document that more aggressive trade credit decisions by overconfident CEOs are associated with enhanced future sales and market share, while simultaneously reducing operating volatility. The impact of CEO overconfidence on trade credit is more pronounced in firms with active investment activity, in high-power CEO firms, and under financially constrained conditions.","PeriodicalId":501001,"journal":{"name":"The British Accounting Review","volume":"403 1","pages":"101844"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2026-02-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147351282","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Jeonghu Pak, Jiyong Eom, Kevin H. Kim, Jonghan Park
{"title":"Do managers care about analyst attention to ESG? *","authors":"Jeonghu Pak, Jiyong Eom, Kevin H. Kim, Jonghan Park","doi":"10.1016/j.bar.2026.101873","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bar.2026.101873","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":501001,"journal":{"name":"The British Accounting Review","volume":"13 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2026-02-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147279996","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Isn’t It Ironic? The Unintended Consequences of Audit Firm Efforts to Increase Auditor Awareness of Blockchain","authors":"Ashley A. Austin, L.Tyler Williams","doi":"10.1016/j.bar.2026.101849","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bar.2026.101849","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":501001,"journal":{"name":"The British Accounting Review","volume":"104 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2026-02-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"146778884","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}