Mandatory Securities and Exchange Commission disclosures about the reasons behind auditor firings are useless for assessing whether restatement trouble lies ahead for the company, according to new research from the University ...
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Nov 10, 2021
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Stock investors mistakenly remember their past investments as better than they actually were, which leads them to be overconfident about how they'll perform in the future, according to our new study.
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Nov 3, 2021
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When Iranian authorities started seizing Barbie dolls from Tehran toy shops in 2012, Mattel Inc. execs faced concerns not only about the dolls' attire—miniskirts and swimsuits considered immodest in an Islamic country—but ...
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Apr 13, 2021
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Regulators have expressed concerns that audit firms' emphasis on non-audit services (NAS) such as consulting could distract from an audit, and quality does suffer in certain cases, according to new research from the University ...
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Dec 10, 2020
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Before considering a company as a potential investment, smart investors will analyze a company's financial statements and look at its taxes and other expenses alongside net income.
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Sep 30, 2020
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A recent study finds that when an accounting firm has an industry diversified client portfolio, the quality of the firm's audits suffers—and the more industry sectors it audits, the worse those audits are.
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Jul 30, 2020
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G20 leaders have pledged to do "whatever it takes" to minimise the impacts of COVID-19.
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Mar 27, 2020
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Companies with female chief financial officers are less likely to misreport key data in financial statements, according to research from The University of Alabama.
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Jun 13, 2019
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When thousands of fake Wells Fargo accounts came to light in 2016, the media scrutinized everyone behind the scandal, with the bank's external auditor, KPMG, sharing print space in nearly every article. A new study from researchers ...
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Jun 3, 2019
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Firms that publish complex or ambiguous annual reports might be trying to mask poor performance and could be inadvertently signalling a crash in their stock price, according to new research from the University of Alberta.
Economics & Business
Feb 26, 2019
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