.... In this paper, we focus on the CFO’s core responsibility of overseeing home firm financial reporting quality, and we explore the types of situations where outside board service may lead to either learning opportunities or pressure to shirk on home firm duties. Our results should interest investors, auditors...

...Christopher G. Calvin; Matthew Holt SYNOPSIS We investigate how the geographic distribution of domain-specific internal audit education impacts financial reporting quality and audit efficiency in the U.S. Using universities with Centers for Internal Auditing Excellence as proxies for robust...

... 2022 2023 financial reporting quality stock market participation households local bias Next, we examine whether the use of the internet affects the relation between accounting quality and stock market participation. Barber and Odean (2001) note that the advent of the internet...

..., indicating a nonlinear relation between ETRs and tax-related financial reporting quality. We also find evidence that tax-related restatements for low ETR firms reflect increased operational complexity that pervades the firm and results in an increased likelihood of tax and non-tax restatements. High ETR...

...Avishek Bhandari; Babak Mammadov; Maya Thevenot; Hamid Vakilzadeh SYNOPSIS With the increased focus on corporate culture as an important determinant of organizational behavior and outcomes, we study how corporate culture affects firm financial reporting quality. Relying on the Competing Values...

... regulatory provisions. The results are also of interest to donors, rating agencies, and other stakeholders as they seek to monitor charities' financial reporting quality and regulatory compliance. By using large scale and detailed Form 990 data now readily available, future empirical work can further advance...

...Robert Felix; Mikhail Pevzner; Mengxin Zhao SYNOPSIS We examine the effect of audit committees' cultural diversity, as measured through ancestral cultural diversity of audit committee members, on firms' financial reporting quality. We find that audit committee cultural diversity is associated...

... event dates, suggesting that investors viewed the regulations as likely to reduce financial reporting quality rather than to drive audit efficiencies. Second, this negative market reaction is larger when ICFR effectiveness should matter most—when firms are more complex, have higher litigation risk...

... have lower financial reporting quality and tolerate more aggressive financial reporting practices, which likely influences audit risk. Given the GCs' influence on the financial reporting process, we posit that auditors of firms with GCs in top management increase the amount of effort they expend...

... for their comments and suggestions that greatly improved the paper. Editor's note: Accepted by Brian W. Mayhew. November 2015 July 2017 2018 managerial ability financial distress audit fees financial reporting quality While managers in financially distressed firms, regardless...