Auditor experience and the timeliness of litigation loss contingency disclosures

F Chen, Y Hou, G Richardson… - Contemporary Accounting …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
This paper hypothesizes and finds that firms audited by city‐industry specialists have more
timely disclosures of contingent losses from litigation when there is no news coverage …

Lawyer CEOs and Strategic Disclosure of Litigation Loss Contingencies

F Chen, Y Hou, G Richardson, B Su - Abacus, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Using hand‐collected data, we find that lawyer CEOs, defined as CEOs with a legal
education background, tend to make first disclosures about pending litigation cases on a …

[PDF][PDF] CEO's legal expertise and strategic disclosures of litigation loss contingencies

F Chen, Y Hou, G Richardson… - available at: www-2 …, 2021 - www-2.rotman.utoronto.ca
In this study, we examine how a CEO's legal expertise impacts a firm's litigation loss
contingency disclosure, a disclosure which is both fraught with uncertainty and strategically …

New trends in public accounting in Portugal: the particular case of provisions, contingent liabilities, and contingent assets

MC da Costa Marques - CSR and Climate Change Implications for …, 2018 - elgaronline.com
Iudícibus (1995: 18) and Oliveira and Lemes (2011: 156) argue that “the fundamental
function of accounting has remained unchanged since its inception, its purpose being to …

[引用][C] Auditor quality and litigation loss contingency disclosures

F Chen, Y Hou, G Richardson, M Ye - 2015 - Working paper (University of …

[引用][C] Are legal contingency disclosures useful? Evidence from textual analysis

A Allen, K Standridge, J Thornock - 2020 - Working Paper, Brigham Young …