Does Control Self-Assessment Influence Financial Reporting Quality?

Does IFRS Convergence Affect Financial Reporting Quality in China? Research report 131 Does IFRS Convergence Affect Financial Reporting Quality in China?

ACCA's international research programme generates high-profile, high-quality, cutting-edge research. All research reports from this programme are subject to a rigorous peer-review process, and are independently reviewed by two experts of international standing, one academic and one professional in practice. The Council of the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants considers this study t...

Internal Audit, Board of Directors and Financial Reporting Quality

High-quality internal audit is expected to lead to high-quality financial reporting. High-quality financial reporting expresses itself in earning quality. Earning quality has been playing a key role in capital market for a long time. Finance users pay special attention to earning quality because they make their decision based on it. On the other hand, the market economy will experience awful, i...

Financial Reporting Quality and Corporate Innovation

This paper examines the effects of financial reporting on corporate innovation. After controlling for other determinants of corporate innovation, I find that firms with higher-quality financial reporting exhibit greater innovation. I show that the relation between financial reporting quality and innovation is more pronounced for firms that have greater growth opportunities, those that operate i...

Corporate General Counsel and Financial Reporting Quality

Judicial Branch. We thank John Jiang for generously providing us the SAS code for computing executive incentives. We thank the Abstract We examine the influence of general counsel on firms' accounting quality and earnings management practices. We consider two views of the role of general counsel and how they relate to financial reporting. The first is the " gatekeeper " role in which the genera...

Ownership Structure and Quality of Financial Reporting