{"title":"Do Non-SOEs Engage in Less Tax Avoidance When the Government Is a Minority Shareholder in China?","authors":"Liguang Zhang, Yunxiang Liao, Ruoyi Yang, Yunchen Wang, Liao Peng","doi":"10.1111/auar.12430","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/auar.12430","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This study attempts to shed new light on how the state, as a minority shareholder, can affect the tax planning of non-state-owned enterprises (non-SOEs). We examine publicly traded non-SOEs in China and find that non-SOEs engage in more tax avoidance when the government is a minority shareholder, indicating that minority state ownership has had a ‘shelter effect’ on tax avoidance of non-SOEs. Further analysis shows that the sheltering effect of minority state ownership is more prominent for firms located in areas with heavier social burdens, worse tax enforcement and firms with stronger incentives to avoid taxes. Furthermore, non-SOEs with minority state ownership increase excessive capital expenditures and employ redundant employees but still have higher firm value. Overall, our findings suggest the state, as a minority shareholder, shapes the tax-planning activities of non-SOEs in a ‘two-way favour exchange’ manner and it is beneficial for non-SOEs to maintain a close relationship with the government in China, where the government controls key resources.</p>","PeriodicalId":51552,"journal":{"name":"Australian Accounting Review","volume":"34 3","pages":"219-242"},"PeriodicalIF":3.1,"publicationDate":"2024-08-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/auar.12430","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142665015","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":"The Disclosure of Recognised and Unrecognised Intangibles: Evidence from New Zealand","authors":"Laura Mehnaz, Tom Scott, Zeting Zang","doi":"10.1111/auar.12422","DOIUrl":"10.1111/auar.12422","url":null,"abstract":"<p>We examine the reporting of intangible assets and the disclosures on intellectual capital activities by listed companies and public benefit entities in New Zealand and assess the usefulness of these disclosures. Comparing trends in intangible asset disclosure frequency, we note that the most common is capitalised software costs, followed by goodwill. For intellectual capital, we find that qualitative disclosures are more prevalent than quantitative, with disclosure on relational capital being the most frequent. In addition, we find that intangible assets are value relevant, and more intellectual capital disclosures increase the value relevance of goodwill. Finally, we consider intangible reporting by public benefit entities and show that while the rate of intangibles capitalised is similar, they are of less relative economic importance. Overall, our findings provide evidence of divergence in intangible categorisation practice, highlight the absence of reporting digital technologies and call for improved disclosure criteria for recognised and unrecognised intangibles.</p>","PeriodicalId":51552,"journal":{"name":"Australian Accounting Review","volume":"34 4","pages":"346-365"},"PeriodicalIF":3.1,"publicationDate":"2024-05-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/auar.12422","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141189945","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":"Does Readability Improve Investors’ Understanding of Hedging Positions?","authors":"Wenhuan Liu, Yue Yan, Bin Li, Chaosha Yang","doi":"10.1111/auar.12423","DOIUrl":"10.1111/auar.12423","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Readability is a key issue in the presentation of hedging risk information. We use psychological theories and experiments to analyse and examine the effects of the readability of hedging risk and hedge effectiveness information on investors’ assessment of investments. We find that when hedging risk information presentation is more readable, investors’ judgement of the attractiveness of an investment is higher when hedging effectiveness is high than when hedging effectiveness is low. However, when hedging risk presentation information is less readable, there is no significant difference in their judgement of the attractiveness of an investment between two hedging effectiveness levels. Meanwhile, we further identify the mediation effects of the readability of hedging risk information on investors’ judgement of an investment's attractiveness. The findings of our study have significant implications for improving accounting information readability and enhancing accounting information quality.</p>","PeriodicalId":51552,"journal":{"name":"Australian Accounting Review","volume":"34 2","pages":"178-186"},"PeriodicalIF":3.1,"publicationDate":"2024-05-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/auar.12423","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141099066","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}
Luckmika Perera, Thusitha Dissanayake, Sutharson Kanapathippillai, Steven Dellaportas
{"title":"Risk Committee and Integrated Reporting Practice: Evidence from Australian Companies","authors":"Luckmika Perera, Thusitha Dissanayake, Sutharson Kanapathippillai, Steven Dellaportas","doi":"10.1111/auar.12421","DOIUrl":"10.1111/auar.12421","url":null,"abstract":"<p><i>This study investigates the relationship between the risk committee (existence and effectiveness) and the quality of integrated reports of the top 200 listed companies on the Australian Securities Exchange (ASX). A composite ordinal proxy for the firms’ integrated reporting was constructed using data that were hand-collected from annual reports. The main result reports that the existence of a standalone risk committee is negatively and significantly associated with the quality of integrated reporting; however, integrated reporting is positively associated with firms adopting a combined risk and audit committee and risk committee effectiveness</i>.</p>","PeriodicalId":51552,"journal":{"name":"Australian Accounting Review","volume":"34 2","pages":"101-132"},"PeriodicalIF":3.1,"publicationDate":"2024-05-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/auar.12421","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141150538","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":"The (Lack of) Progress in Accountancy Professionalisation: Insights from Non-accountants in Portugal","authors":"Fernanda Leão, Delfina Gomes","doi":"10.1111/auar.12420","DOIUrl":"10.1111/auar.12420","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Concerns about the success of professional accountancy in terms of its social dimension have been expressed in the literature. This study uses data from a questionnaire survey administered to a Portuguese community sample to provide insights for a better understanding of the social dimension of professional accountancy at the macro level. It examines how lay society in accounting posits accountants along the social judgement variables of status, competition, competence and warmth and tests these variables’ influence on accountants’ social image using structural equation modelling. The results indicate that status, competition, competence and warmth are all critical factors in constructing the social image of modern accountants. Accountants are perceived as modestly warm, highly competent and a cooperative lower middle-class group. These findings confirm the profession's difficulties in enhancing accountants’ perceived social standing and reinforce the view of limited social mobility in the accountancy profession. The high level of competence identified suggests weak social power in the case of accountancy. Future research may investigate how soft skills and networking abilities in the perceived prototype of competence can promote the higher social standing of the accountancy group.</p>","PeriodicalId":51552,"journal":{"name":"Australian Accounting Review","volume":"34 2","pages":"133-155"},"PeriodicalIF":3.1,"publicationDate":"2024-05-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/auar.12420","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140885131","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":"Top Management Team Incentive Dispersion and Managerial Efficiency","authors":"Hongkang Xu, Rachana Kalelkar, Long Liu","doi":"10.1111/auar.12418","DOIUrl":"10.1111/auar.12418","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This study examines the association between dispersion in pay-performance sensitivities (PPS) among top management team (TMT) members and managerial efficiency. While prior research has focused on managerial efficiency as an innate characteristic of managers, this study explores how managerial incentive dispersion shapes managerial efficiency. Using a sample of US firms from 1993 to 2019, we find a negative relationship between TMT incentive dispersion and managerial efficiency, suggesting that higher levels of incentive dispersion can potentially affect managerial efficiency by reducing coordination and cooperation among TMT members. We employ a range of robustness tests and find consistent and robust results. Overall, this study contributes to the literature on executive compensation by providing novel insights into the implications of incentive dispersion among executives for managerial efficiency.</p>","PeriodicalId":51552,"journal":{"name":"Australian Accounting Review","volume":"34 2","pages":"156-177"},"PeriodicalIF":3.1,"publicationDate":"2024-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/auar.12418","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140025083","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":"Work Overload, Work–Life Balance and Auditors' Turnover Intention: The Moderating Role of Motivation","authors":"Iryna Alves, Miguel Limão, Sofia M. Lourenço","doi":"10.1111/auar.12417","DOIUrl":"10.1111/auar.12417","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Auditor turnover remains a persistent concern for regulatory bodies and auditing firms. Past research on auditors’ turnover intention has explored various factors influencing auditors’ turnover intention, including job satisfaction, organisational commitment, work overload and work–life balance. However, the potential role of motivation in mitigating the adverse effects of work overload and work–life imbalance has been overlooked. Our study addresses this gap in the existing literature by revealing the crucial role of motivation and identifying differences between Big4 and Non-Big4 firms. Using questionnaire data from 301 auditors, analysed using structural equation modelling, we find that work overload is positively but indirectly related to turnover intention via work–life balance. Additionally, organisational commitment (job satisfaction) is directly (indirectly) and negatively related to turnover intention. Moreover, and considering that, due to work overload, a lack of work–life balance can be responsible for increasing auditors’ turnover intention, our study suggests that motivation can mitigate this effect. Finally, our study suggests that work–life balance can directly reduce turnover intention for Big4 firms, while for Non-Big4 firms this reduction can only occur via organisational commitment (a channel that is weaker for Big4 firms).</p>","PeriodicalId":51552,"journal":{"name":"Australian Accounting Review","volume":"34 1","pages":"4-28"},"PeriodicalIF":3.4,"publicationDate":"2024-02-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/auar.12417","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140025120","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}
Md. Borhan Uddin Bhuiyan, Solomon Opare, Zahir Ahmed
{"title":"Does Audit Committee Busyness Affect Financial Restatement? Evidence from Audit Committee Share Ownership","authors":"Md. Borhan Uddin Bhuiyan, Solomon Opare, Zahir Ahmed","doi":"10.1111/auar.12416","DOIUrl":"10.1111/auar.12416","url":null,"abstract":"<p>We examine the association between audit committee (AC) busyness and financial restatement and determine whether AC share ownership moderates this relationship. Using logit regression analysis, we test our hypotheses on a sample of 6408 firm-year observations from 2004 to 2015 for companies listed on the Australian Securities Exchange. The study reveals that firms with busy ACs engage more in financial restatements. We also find that AC share ownership reduces financial restatements and attenuates the association between AC busyness and financial restatement. Our results are robust to endogeneity concerns emanating from firms’ deliberate decisions to grant shares to AC members. The findings of this research have several important policy implications. For instance, shareholders can benefit from AC members’ monitoring ability by allowing for share ownership. Further, our findings suggest that principles-based corporate governance guidelines have a beneficial effect on financial reporting quality. While prior studies offer mixed evidence, our research contributes to the auditing literature by providing evidence that AC share ownership moderates the association between AC busyness and financial restatement.</p>","PeriodicalId":51552,"journal":{"name":"Australian Accounting Review","volume":"34 1","pages":"29-54"},"PeriodicalIF":3.4,"publicationDate":"2024-01-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/auar.12416","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139588980","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}