Challenging the dominant economic agency theory of corporate governance with a new discourse drawn from institutional theory, the paper analyses how management accounting is implicated in corporate governance. The proposed institutional theory of agency links the micro-institutions of the organization that are informed by the practices of management accounting with external institutional player...

Purpose – This study examines whether high analyst coverage increases or decreases accounting conservatism. Design/methodology/approach – This study selects sample firms from the Compustat and I/B/E/S databases for years 1989-2006. We use both accrual-based and marketvalue-based measures of accounting conservatism. We also use the extent to which negative cash flow from operations is more timel...

Information asymmetry among stakeholders is the cause of accounting conservatism, since it leads to the asymmetric loss function which brings in the required mechanism to protect the interest of parties with information disadvantage; Agency theory suggests that stakeholders need conservative accounting reports since conservatism will be reciprocal beneficial for all parties and management incen...

The purpose of this study is to examine the role of corporate governance in the concept of tax justice. The current research contributes to the field of applied research and is regarded as a descriptive survey research, testing four main hypotheses and eight special hypotheses. The required data for this research were obtained through a questionnaire distributed among financial managers of 133 ...

This paper examines the cross-sectional relation between corporate governance and firm liquidity in the Chinese stock market. Each year we construct a measure of overall quality of governance based on publicly available information for each firm listed on the Shanghai Stock Exchange (SHSE) and the Shenzhen Stock Exchange (SZSE) over the 1999-2004 interval. After accounting for other liquidity-r...

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the efficiency of corporate governance characteristics in reducing earnings management among the listed firms of Shanghai and Shenzhen stock exchange, China. We took abnormal working capital accruals as a proxy for earning management. In this paper, we used modified Jones Model in order to calculate discretionary accruals (DAC). The sample comprises o...

Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) has the highest prevalence rate of HIV/AIDS in the world, with negative effects on productivity, profitability, economic growth, and development. The social responsibility role of public companies in contributing towards reducing the negative effects of HIV/AIDS is priceless. This paper investigates the impact of corporate governance (CG) on social and environmental acc...

We develop a model to analyze how corporate governance and managerial optimism affect firms’financial reporting choices, and managers’incentives to manipulate accounting reports. Conservative accounting is advantageous because it enables boards to act on bad news and block investment ideas that are unattractive to shareholders but attractive to management. This feature of conservatism, however,...