Open Access. Powered by Scholars. Published by Universities.®

Accounting Commons™

Open Access. Powered by Scholars. Published by Universities.®

Discipline
Institution
Keyword
Publication Year
Publication
Publication Type
File Type

Articles 5101 - 5130 of 39887

Full-Text Articles in Accounting

Tax Indemnification And The Association Between Unrecognized Tax Benefit Reserves And Future Tax Cash Outflows, Patrick Lee Hopkins Dec 2019

Tax Indemnification And The Association Between Unrecognized Tax Benefit Reserves And Future Tax Cash Outflows, Patrick Lee Hopkins

Graduate Theses and Dissertations

Tax indemnification transfers from a firm to an outside party the risk of potential cash settlements associated with uncertain tax positions taken in prior years. The current accounting treatment of tax indemnification under Accounting Standards Codification (ASC) 805 and the required disclosures for uncertain tax positions under ASC 740 provide little or no information regarding this risk transfer in the financial statements or notes. I examine merger and acquisition (M&A) contracts from 2008 through 2013 and find that tax indemnification is commonly present in M&A transactions. I then provide evidence that the association between current uncertain tax benefit reserves and …

Go to article

Amendments To The Description Of The Concept Of Materiality (Amends The Following Sections Of Statement On Standards For Attestation Engagements [Ssae] No. 18, Attestation Standards: Clarification And Recodification: — Section 205, Examination Engagements [Aicpa, Professional Standards, At-C Sec. 205]; — Section 210, Review Engagements [Aicpa, Professional Standards, At-C Sec. 210]); Statement On Standards For Attestation Engagements 20, American Institute Of Certified Public Accountants. Auditing Standards Board Dec 2019

Amendments To The Description Of The Concept Of Materiality (Amends The Following Sections Of Statement On Standards For Attestation Engagements [Ssae] No. 18, Attestation Standards: Clarification And Recodification: — Section 205, Examination Engagements [Aicpa, Professional Standards, At-C Sec. 205]; — Section 210, Review Engagements [Aicpa, Professional Standards, At-C Sec. 210]); Statement On Standards For Attestation Engagements 20, American Institute Of Certified Public Accountants. Auditing Standards Board

AICPA Professional Standards

No abstract provided.

Go to article

Agreed-Upon Procedures Engagements; Statement On Standards For Attestation Engagements 19, American Institute Of Certified Public Accountants. Auditing Standards Board Dec 2019

Agreed-Upon Procedures Engagements; Statement On Standards For Attestation Engagements 19, American Institute Of Certified Public Accountants. Auditing Standards Board

AICPA Professional Standards

No abstract provided.

Go to article

Audit Sampling, December 1, 2019; Audit Guide, American Institute Of Certified Public Accountants (Aicpa) Dec 2019

Audit Sampling, December 1, 2019; Audit Guide, American Institute Of Certified Public Accountants (Aicpa)

Industry Guides (AAGs), Risk Alerts, and Checklists

No abstract provided.

Go to article

Pcaob Standards And Related Rules As Of December 2019, Public Company Accounting Oversight Board, American Institute Of Certified Public Accountants (Aicpa) Dec 2019

Pcaob Standards And Related Rules As Of December 2019, Public Company Accounting Oversight Board, American Institute Of Certified Public Accountants (Aicpa)

AICPA Professional Standards

No abstract provided.

Go to article

Chief Financial Officer Demographic Characteristics And Fraudulent Financial Reporting In China, Jinghui Sun, Pamela Kent, Baolei Qi, Jiwei Wang Dec 2019

Chief Financial Officer Demographic Characteristics And Fraudulent Financial Reporting In China, Jinghui Sun, Pamela Kent, Baolei Qi, Jiwei Wang

Research Collection School Of Accountancy

We investigate whether management's cognitions, values and perceptions are associated with fraud for 18 863 firm-years for Chinese listed firms from 2000 to 2014. Demographic characteristics of the chief financial officer (CFO) are used as proxies for management's cognitions, values and perceptions. We find that fraudulent financial reporting is higher when CFOs are younger, male, and have lower education backgrounds. An analysis of inflated earnings, fictitious assets, material omissions and other material misstatements provide similar results, with the exception that CFOs with higher education levels are associated with more inflated earnings. Accounting and Finance

Go to article

Regulations And Brain Drain: Evidence From Wall Street Star Analysts’ Career Choices, Yuyan Guan, Congcong Li, Hai Lu, Franco Wong Dec 2019

Regulations And Brain Drain: Evidence From Wall Street Star Analysts’ Career Choices, Yuyan Guan, Congcong Li, Hai Lu, Franco Wong

Research Collection School Of Accountancy

The Global Settlement, along with related regulations in the early 2000s, prohibits the use of investment banking revenue to fund equity research and compensate equity analysts. We find that all-star analysts from investment banks are more likely to exit the profession or move to the buy side after the regulations. The departed star analysts’ earnings revisions and stock recommendations are more informative than those of the remaining analysts who followed the same companies. To the extent that star analysts are superior to their nonstar counterparts in terms of research ability and ability to inform the market, the exit of star …

Go to article

Riding The Blockchain Mania: Public Firms’ Speculative 8-K Disclosures, Pengkai Lin Dec 2019

Riding The Blockchain Mania: Public Firms’ Speculative 8-K Disclosures, Pengkai Lin

Research Collection School Of Accountancy

This paper provides evidence on public firms' initial 8-K disclosures that mention Blockchain and investors' response to these disclosures. We categorize the description of Blockchain activities in firms' 8-Ks as Speculative (e.g., a vague future plan that involves Blockchain) or Existing (e.g., a description of Blockchain product). We document a sharp increase in the number of initial 8-K disclosures of Blockchain, particularly by Speculative firms, coinciding with the rise of Bitcoin prices and excitement in Blockchain technology in the last quarter of 2017. Investors react positively to the Blockchain 8-Ks issued by Speculative firms in the initial seven-day event window …

Go to article

Value Relevance Of Financial And Non-Financial Information: Evidence From The Gaming Industry, Lisa Goh, Kevin Ck Lam, Hong Weng Lawrence Lei Nov 2019

Value Relevance Of Financial And Non-Financial Information: Evidence From The Gaming Industry, Lisa Goh, Kevin Ck Lam, Hong Weng Lawrence Lei

UNLV Gaming Research & Review Journal

Using financial and non-financial data from casino gaming firms listed in the United States from 1999–2017, we explore two research questions: (1) Is financial information value relevant to financial markets in the casino gaming industry? (2) Does non-financial information have incremental explanatory power over financial information? In general, we find that accounting numbers can explain a firm’s market value and stock returns in the casino gaming industry, except for accounting accruals, which may behave differently compared to other industries. We also find that non-financial information, such as the number of table games, number of slot machines, and their relative proportion, …

Go to article

The Effects Of The H2-A Program On Southwest Michigan Farmers, Marisol Quiroz Nov 2019

The Effects Of The H2-A Program On Southwest Michigan Farmers, Marisol Quiroz

Honors Theses

Growing up as the daughter of migrant farm laborers has sparked an interest in researching the effects of the H-2A program. With more and more unwilling domestic laborers, farmers were left with a significant lack of workers. The H-2A program is a guest worker program, that brings foreign laborers into the United States in order to assist farmers in their harvesting efforts. The lack of willing domestic labors to assist farmers in times of harvest has created the need for such program. This is a reoccurring trait throughout American history, where other guest worker programs such as the H-2A program …

Go to article

Access To Finance And Innovation In Small And Medium Enterprises, Huong (Anne) Le Nov 2019

Access To Finance And Innovation In Small And Medium Enterprises, Huong (Anne) Le

Faculty Research and Creative Activities Symposium

This paper examines the relation between a firm’s capacity to access external capital and its innovation among SMEs in Vietnam. We find that SMEs with high debt ratio tend to be more innovative. After controlling for several firm characteristics, long term debt remains significantly positively correlated with innovation. We further show that both bank loans and loans from family and friends help these firms innovate, especially in developing new products and/or technology. Overall, our paper suggests that external financing plays an important role in enhancing innovation in small and medium enterprises.

Go to article

Tax Law And 100 Years Of New York Giants Season Tickets: A Multifaceted Analysis Of One Fan’S Fortune, Casey W. Baker Nov 2019

Tax Law And 100 Years Of New York Giants Season Tickets: A Multifaceted Analysis Of One Fan’S Fortune, Casey W. Baker

Faculty Research Day

Sports and tax Law? The confluence of money and unique factual situations create issues that the regulatory structure may not contemplate.

Go to article

Strategy And Work Plan: Consultation Paper, Aicpa Professional Ethics Division, November 15, 2019, Please Send Comments By February 28, 2020, American Institute Of Certified Public Accountants. Professional Ethics Executive Committee Nov 2019

Strategy And Work Plan: Consultation Paper, Aicpa Professional Ethics Division, November 15, 2019, Please Send Comments By February 28, 2020, American Institute Of Certified Public Accountants. Professional Ethics Executive Committee

Exposure Drafts, Comment Letters, and Statements of Position

No abstract provided.

Go to article

Ireland And Iceland In Crisis B: Decreasing Loan Loss Provisions In Ireland, Arwin G. Zeissler, Andrew Metrick Nov 2019

Ireland And Iceland In Crisis B: Decreasing Loan Loss Provisions In Ireland, Arwin G. Zeissler, Andrew Metrick

Journal of Financial Crises

All public companies in the European Union, including Ireland’s major banks, were required to adopt IAS 39 for their annual accounting periods beginning on or after January 1, 2005. Under the “incurred loss” model of IAS 39, banks could set aside reserves for loan losses only when objective evidence existed that a loan was impaired, not in anticipation of future losses. As a result, Irish banks saw their aggregate reserve for bad loans drop from 1.2% of loan balances at the end of 2000 to only 0.4% by 2006-07, just before the collapse of the banking industry caused loan losses …

Go to article

Comment Letters On Strategy And Work Plan: Consultation Paper, Aicpa Professional Ethics Division, November 15, 2019, American Institute Of Certified Public Accountants. Professional Ethics Executive Committee Nov 2019

Comment Letters On Strategy And Work Plan: Consultation Paper, Aicpa Professional Ethics Division, November 15, 2019, American Institute Of Certified Public Accountants. Professional Ethics Executive Committee

Exposure Drafts, Comment Letters, and Statements of Position

No abstract provided.

Go to article

Open Meeting Minutes, November 6, 2019, American Institute Of Certified Public Accountants. Professional Ethics Division. Professional Ethics Executive Committee Nov 2019

Open Meeting Minutes, November 6, 2019, American Institute Of Certified Public Accountants. Professional Ethics Division. Professional Ethics Executive Committee

Association Sections, Divisions, Boards, Teams

No abstract provided.

Go to article

Open Meeting Agenda, November 6, 2019, Durham, Nc, American Institute Of Certified Public Accountants. Professional Ethics Executive Committee Nov 2019

Open Meeting Agenda, November 6, 2019, Durham, Nc, American Institute Of Certified Public Accountants. Professional Ethics Executive Committee

Association Sections, Divisions, Boards, Teams

No abstract provided.

Go to article

Supporting The Changing Practices Of Teaching In Business At Queens College, City University Of New York, James Tasato Mellone, Edward F. Wall Iii, Qiong Xu Nov 2019

Supporting The Changing Practices Of Teaching In Business At Queens College, City University Of New York, James Tasato Mellone, Edward F. Wall Iii, Qiong Xu

Publications and Research

This investigation sheds light on the teaching practices of Queens College (QC) faculty in Business. It identifies the Business faculty’s teaching support needs in order to develop ideas for improving Library services to them. This report is the result of research conducted under the guidance of Ithaka S+R, and in accordance with Office of Regulatory Compliance procedures at QC. Using a grounded theory approach to qualitative research, the investigators conducted in-person audio-recorded semi-structured interviews of seven full-time QC faculty who teach Business courses. Evidence derived from the transcribed interviews informed analysis of the current state of QC’s Business teaching experience, …

Go to article

Disappearing Forks And Magical Airdrops, David G. Chamberlain, Rodney P. Mock, Kathryn Kisska-Schulze Nov 2019

Disappearing Forks And Magical Airdrops, David G. Chamberlain, Rodney P. Mock, Kathryn Kisska-Schulze

Accounting

In this article, the authors argue that the IRS misguides taxpayers because it confuses cryptocurrency hard forks and airdrops in newly issued Rev. Rul. 2019-24.

Go to article

Sales Order Backlog And Corporate Social Responsibility, Li Sun, Brian Walkup, Kean Wu Nov 2019

Sales Order Backlog And Corporate Social Responsibility, Li Sun, Brian Walkup, Kean Wu

Faculty Publications

We examine the impact of sales order backlog, an important leading indicator of firm performance, on corporate social responsibility (CSR) performance (measured as responsible and irresponsible CSR performance). We rely on the stakeholder view and the resource availability view of CSR to develop our hypotheses. Under the stakeholder view, we posit a positive relation between sales order backlog and CSR performance. Under the resource availability view, we posit this relationship to be negative. Our empirical evidence shows a significant positive relation between order backlog and irresponsible CSR performance, suggesting that firms with higher order backlog demonstrate lower overall CSR performance. …

Go to article

Spillover Effects Of Clients’ Tax Enforcement On Financial Statement Auditors: Evidence From A Discontinuity Design, Travis K. Chow, Jeffrey Pittman, Muzhi Wang, Le Zhao Nov 2019

Spillover Effects Of Clients’ Tax Enforcement On Financial Statement Auditors: Evidence From A Discontinuity Design, Travis K. Chow, Jeffrey Pittman, Muzhi Wang, Le Zhao

Research Collection School Of Accountancy

We examine the impact of clients’ tax enforcement on financial statement auditors. In a regression discontinuity design, we exploit the firm-registration-date-based application of a new rule that assigns firms to two different tax enforcement regimes. Our analysis implies that auditors exert less effort–evident in lower audit fees and shorter audit report lags–when their clients are monitored by the more stringent tax authority. In results supporting that audit quality improves in this situation despite the fall in auditor effort, we report that clients subject to tougher tax enforcement exhibit a lower incidence of accounting restatements and tax-related restatements. Additionally, we find …

Go to article

Examining Learning Transformation In Project-Based Learning Process, Gary Pan, Poh Sun Seow, Grace Koh Nov 2019

Examining Learning Transformation In Project-Based Learning Process, Gary Pan, Poh Sun Seow, Grace Koh

Research Collection School Of Accountancy

This paper presents a learning transformation framework for analyzing how learning evolves during project-based learning process. Here we adopt Lewin’s (1951) change theory as an analytical lens to examine the project-based learning curriculum at a University called UNI-X. This is a major contribution to PBL literature as little is known about the dynamics of learning during PBL process. In fact, the learning transformation framework can serve as the basis for further research in PBL process. For educators, this study provides them with useful insights on how to break project members’ escalating commitment to previous failing ideas and accept alternative workable …

Go to article

Detecting Digitally Forged Faces In Online Videos, Neilesh Sambhu Oct 2019

Detecting Digitally Forged Faces In Online Videos, Neilesh Sambhu

USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations

We use Rossler’s FaceForensics dataset of 1004 online videos and their corresponding forged counterparts [1] to investigate the ability to distinguish digitally forged facial images from original images automatically with deep learning. The proposed convolutional neural network is much smaller than the current state-of-the-art solutions. Nevertheless, the network maintains a high level of accuracy (99.6%), all while using the entire FaceForensics dataset and not including any temporal information. We implement majority voting and show the impact on accuracy (99.67%), where only 1 video of 300 is misclassified. We examine why the model misclassified this one video. In terms of tuning …

Go to article

Auditing Standards Board (Asb), Agenda, October 28-31, 2019 New York, Ny, American Institute Of Certified Public Accountants. Auditing Standards Board Oct 2019

Auditing Standards Board (Asb), Agenda, October 28-31, 2019 New York, Ny, American Institute Of Certified Public Accountants. Auditing Standards Board

Association Sections, Divisions, Boards, Teams

No abstract provided.

Go to article

Auditing Standards Board Asb Meeting, October 28-31, 2019, American Institute Of Certified Public Accountants. Auditing Standards Board Oct 2019

Auditing Standards Board Asb Meeting, October 28-31, 2019, American Institute Of Certified Public Accountants. Auditing Standards Board

Association Sections, Divisions, Boards, Teams

No abstract provided.

Go to article

The Effect Of Sox 404(B) On Large Non-Accelerated Filers’ Earnings Per Share Rounding Behavior, David Bigos Oct 2019

The Effect Of Sox 404(B) On Large Non-Accelerated Filers’ Earnings Per Share Rounding Behavior, David Bigos

Honors Scholar Theses

I examine whether firms with the ability to manipulate earnings per share (EPS) rounding and the incentive to defer the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 Section 404(b) (SOX 404(b)) compliance round down EPS to understate earnings before a public float evaluation in the second fiscal quarter. I build on existing literature that acknowledges some firms may manipulate the post-decimal (thousandths) digit of EPS and that firms near the SOX 404(b) public float compliance threshold may initiate avoidance techniques to defer the marginal cost of an Internal Controls over Financial Reporting (ICFR) external audit. By comparing the rounding behavior of accelerated filers …

Go to article

How Does Variability In Cash Flows And Returns Influence How Top Executives Are Paid?, Kwadwo N. Asare Oct 2019

How Does Variability In Cash Flows And Returns Influence How Top Executives Are Paid?, Kwadwo N. Asare

Accounting Department Faculty Journal Articles

I invoke agency theory to evaluate how top executives’ compensation contracts are structured, conditional on risk in the firm’s operating environment, focusing on the total, fixed, and variable components. The results suggest that companies exert some effort to adhere to agency theoretic principles in designing top executive compensation contracts. However, imperfections in the pay setting process mean that there is ample room for powerful CEOs to seek rents. Furthermore, when risk in the operating environment is measured with volatility in returns, non-CEO top executives sometimes bear greater risk than CEOs, collecting a greater percentage of their compensation in variable pay …

Go to article

Open Meeting Minutes, October 22, 2019, American Institute Of Certified Public Accountants. Professional Ethics Division. Professional Ethics Executive Committee Oct 2019

Open Meeting Minutes, October 22, 2019, American Institute Of Certified Public Accountants. Professional Ethics Division. Professional Ethics Executive Committee

Association Sections, Divisions, Boards, Teams

No abstract provided.

Go to article

Open Meeting Agenda, October 22, 2019, Durham, Nc, American Institute Of Certified Public Accountants. Professional Ethics Executive Committee Oct 2019

Open Meeting Agenda, October 22, 2019, Durham, Nc, American Institute Of Certified Public Accountants. Professional Ethics Executive Committee

Association Sections, Divisions, Boards, Teams

No abstract provided.

Go to article

Fall Meeting Of The Council Of The American Institute Of Certified Public Accountants, October 20-22, 2019, Seattle, Washington, Volume 2, American Institute Of Certified Public Accountants. Council Oct 2019

Fall Meeting Of The Council Of The American Institute Of Certified Public Accountants, October 20-22, 2019, Seattle, Washington, Volume 2, American Institute Of Certified Public Accountants. Council

Association Sections, Divisions, Boards, Teams

No abstract provided.

Go to article

First Prev Next Last