Accounting narratives and the narrative turn in accounting research: Issues, theory, methodology, methods and a research framework

V Beattie - The British Accounting Review, 2014 - Elsevier
This plenary address paper traces the development of accounting narratives in external
reporting practice and research, focussing on corporate-sourced financial communications …

A real effects perspective to accounting measurement and disclosure: Implications and insights for future research

C Kanodia, H Sapra - Journal of Accounting Research, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Accounting measurement and disclosure rules have a significant impact on the real
decisions that firms make. In this essay, we provide an analytical framework to illustrate how …

Accounting manipulation, peer pressure, and internal control

P Gao, G Zhang - The Accounting Review, 2019 - publications.aaahq.org
We study firms' investment in internal controls to reduce accounting manipulation. We first
show that peer managers' manipulation decisions are strategic complements: one manager …

A selective critical review of financial accounting research

JL Callen - Critical Perspectives on Accounting, 2015 - Elsevier
This essay provides a selective critical review of the financial accounting literature focusing
primarily on accounting valuation including implied costs of equity capital, empirical …

[HTML][HTML] The real effects of financial reporting: Evidence and suggestions for future research

H Biehl, C Bleibtreu, U Stefani - Journal of International Accounting …, 2023 - Elsevier
This article systematically reviews 94 accounting and finance studies that address the real
effects of financial reporting. Whereas the effects of financial reporting on capital suppliers' …

Internal control weaknesses and evidence of real activities manipulation

MJ Lenard, KA Petruska, P Alam, B Yu - Advances in accounting, 2016 - Elsevier
We examine whether US public firms that file internal control weakness (ICW) disclosure
reports with the Securities and Exchange Commission, as part of the reporting requirements …

Water disclosure and firm risk: Empirical evidence from highly water‐sensitive industries in China

H Zeng, T Zhang, Z Zhou, Y Zhao… - Business Strategy and …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
In this paper, we examine the relationship between water disclosure and firm risk.
Specifically, based upon a panel dataset of 334 Chinese listed firms operating in highly …

Disclosure and choice

E Ben-Porath, E Dekel, BL Lipman - The Review of Economic …, 2018 - academic.oup.com
An agent chooses among projects with random outcomes. His payoff is increasing in the
outcome and in an observer's expectation of the outcome. With some probability, the agent …

Bias and the commitment to disclosure

MS Heinle, RE Verrecchia - Management Science, 2016 - pubsonline.informs.org
This paper studies the propensity of firms to commit to disclose information that is
subsequently biased, in the presence of other firms also issuing potentially biased …

Biased voluntary disclosure

E Einhorn, A Ziv - Review of Accounting Studies, 2012 - Springer
We provide a bridge between the voluntary disclosure and the earnings management
literature. Voluntary disclosure models focus on managers' discretion in deciding whether or …