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Financial Reporting And The Accounting Expectations Gap, James Mohs
Financial Reporting And The Accounting Expectations Gap, James Mohs
Finance Faculty Publications
The overall goal of financial reporting is to provide high quality financial information regarding reporting entities that is useful for informed decision making. Considering most organizations have multiple groups of stakeholders which often have differing and competing informational needs, as well as expectations and desired outcomes, the accounting expectations gap has become a topic of current debate in many business circles. Historically, the accounting expectations gap has centered around the role of the auditor and audit responsibility. The financial accounting expectations gap encompasses what the preparers of the statements and auditors believe they should contain and includes what stakeholders believe …
Base Erosion And Profit Shifting: Options, Opportunities And Alternatives, James Mohs, Martin Goldberg, David Palacio Buitrago
Base Erosion And Profit Shifting: Options, Opportunities And Alternatives, James Mohs, Martin Goldberg, David Palacio Buitrago
Finance Faculty Publications
Base erosion and profit shifting is generally defined as tax strategies that serve to exploit gaps or inconsistencies in global tax systems that allow an enterprise to shift profits to lower tax jurisdictions. This can be accomplished by either shifting income to lower tax jurisdiction or shifting deductible expenses to higher tax jurisdictions. Historically, these shifting strategies have been handled on a country by country basis with no centralized framework. In 2015 the Organization of Economic Cooperation and Development proposed modifications through its Base Erosion and Profit Shifting project that if adopted by the member countries, would reverse the adverse …
News And Social Media Emotions In The Commodity Market, Jiancheng Shen, Mohammad Najand, Feng Dong, Wu He
News And Social Media Emotions In The Commodity Market, Jiancheng Shen, Mohammad Najand, Feng Dong, Wu He
Finance Faculty Publications
Purpose--Emotion plays a significant role in both institutional and individual investors' decision-making process. Emotions affect the perception of risk and the assessment of monetary value. However, there is a lack of empirical evidence available that addresses how investors' emotions affect commodity market returns. The purpose of this paper is to investigate whether media-based emotions can be used to predict future commodity returns.
Design/methodology/approach--The authors examine the short-term predictive power of media-based emotion indices on the following five days' commodity returns. The research adopts a proprietary data set of commodity-specific market emotions, which is computed based on a comprehensive …