Do the SEC Whistleblower Provisions of Dodd Frank Deter Aggressive Financial Reporting?

Why do Clawback Provisions Affect Financial Reporting Quality? - An Analysis of Trigger Effects

We identify clawback triggers from firms’ proxy statements (Form DEF 14A) and use the likelihood of restatements to proxy for financial reporting quality. Based on a sample of 578 U.S. firms that voluntarily adopt clawback provisions during 2003-2009, when restatement-based triggers could be decomposed into two types: fraud and unintentional error, and we do observe the evidence that using frau...

The Islamic Financial Reporting Goals and convergence with International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS

According to some accountants, financial reporting in the islamic countries should be based on fairness, goodness and morality. This study examined the possibility of modifying the conventional framework for reporting in line with Islamic accounting objectives and to adapt the process of recognition and reporting financial events in accordance with the Shari'a principles. The research method is...

Do Alliances Really Deter?

Business strategy and financial reporting readability

Business strategy exerts a considerable impact on complexities, risk and corporate environmental uncertainties as well as the way of providing financial reporting. On this line of argument, therefore, the present study seeks to scrutinize the effect of business strategy on corporate financial reporting readability. In doing so, Fog and Fletch indices are employed to measure financial reporting ...

Does real-time reporting deter strategic disclosures by management?

Over the last decade, the SEC has taken a number of steps to move towards a realtime reporting regime in an effort to deter strategic accumulation of news disclosures by management. However, evidence from theoretical literature suggests managers are still able to engage in strategic bunching of within-firm disclosures under a real-time reporting regime if managers have control over the timing o...