Capital allocation and timely accounting recognition of economic losses

RM Bushman, JD Piotroski… - Journal of Business …, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
This paper explores direct relations between corporate investment behavior and the
timeliness of accounting recognition of economic losses (TLR) reflected in a country's …

Do firms adjust their timely loss recognition in response to changes in the banking industry?

TA Gormley, BH Kim, X Martin - Journal of Accounting …, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
This paper investigates the impact of changes in the banking sector on firms' timely
recognition of economic losses. In particular, we focus on the entry of foreign banks into …

Accounting restatements and external financing choices

X Chen, Q Cheng, AK Lo - Contemporary Accounting Research, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
There is little research on how accounting information quality affects a firm's external
financing choices. In this paper, we use the occurrence of accounting restatements as a …

Does earnings management affect firms' investment decisions?

MF McNichols, SR Stubben - The accounting review, 2008 - publications.aaahq.org
This paper examines whether firms manipulating their reported financial results make
suboptimal investment decisions. We examine fixed asset investments for a large sample of …

How does financial reporting quality relate to investment efficiency?

GC Biddle, G Hilary, RS Verdi - Journal of accounting and economics, 2009 - Elsevier
Prior evidence that higher-quality financial reporting improves capital investment efficiency
leaves unaddressed whether it reduces over-or under-investment. This study provides …

Does investment efficiency improve after the disclosure of material weaknesses in internal control over financial reporting?

M Cheng, D Dhaliwal, Y Zhang - Journal of accounting and economics, 2013 - Elsevier
We provide more direct evidence on the causal relation between the quality of financial
reporting and investment efficiency. We examine the investment behavior of a sample of …

Accounting choice and future performance: The case of R&D accounting in France

A Cazavan-Jeny, T Jeanjean, P Joos - Journal of accounting and public …, 2011 - Elsevier
We examine whether managers' decisions to capitalize or expense R&D expenditures
convey information about the future performance of the firm. Focusing on a French setting …

The relation between reporting quality and financing and investment: Evidence from changes in financing capacity

K Balakrishnan, JE Core… - Journal of Accounting …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
We use changes in the value of a firm's real estate assets as an exogenous change in a
firm's financing capacity to examine (1) the relation between reporting quality and financing …

The role of financial reporting in resolving uncertainty about corporate investment opportunities

E Ferracuti, SR Stubben - Journal of Accounting and Economics, 2019 - Elsevier
This discussion of the survey of the literature on financial reporting and corporate investment
by Roychowdhury et al.(2019) focuses on an area in this literature that has received less …

Capitalization of R&D and the informativeness of stock prices

DR Oswald, P Zarowin - European Accounting Review, 2007 - Taylor & Francis
This paper presents both a new approach to studying the consequences of accounting
choice and a unique sample to examine the effects of accounting choice in the R&D context …