Earnings quality and travel convenience in China for non-local independent directors with accounting expertise

2018 ◽  
Vol 6 (3) ◽  
pp. 295-320
Author(s):  
Jun Zhou ◽  
Lingling Hao ◽  
Ming Yang
2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (19) ◽  
pp. 10517
Author(s):  
Haeyoung Ryu ◽  
Soo-Joon Chae ◽  
Bomi Song

Corporate social responsibility (CSR) involves multiple activities and is influenced by the cultural and legal environment of the country in which a firm is located. This study examines the role of audit committees’ (AC) financial expertise in the relationship between CSR and the earnings quality of Korean firms with high levels of CSR. Using a multivariate analysis, it investigates whether the ACs that include members with accounting expertise, finance expertise, or supervisory expertise individually affect a firm’s decision making. It also examines how ACs with diverse expertise contribute toward improving the financial reporting quality of firms with high levels of CSR. The results demonstrate that when there is a certified accountant in the AC of a firm that practices CSR based on ethical motivation, the earnings management through discretionary accruals is more strictly controlled. This is more effective when the AC comprises members with accounting and non-accounting expertise. This finding implies that the AC plays a positive role in improving the accounting information quality of firms with CSR excellence. Moreover, while the role of accounting experts in the AC is important for maintaining high earnings quality, combining other types of expertise creates synergy.


Author(s):  
Pedi Riswandi

Pedi Riswandi; Ownership structure is very important because it is closely related to the operational control of the company . From the point of view of the theory of accounting , earnings management is determined by the motivation of the company manager . Different motivations will result in a different amount of earnings management , such as the manager who also shareholders of the company with a manager who is not a shareholder and board composition also plays an important role in control of what is done by the executive This study aimed to determine the effect of managerial ownership on earnings quality and the proportion of independent directors on the quality of earnings. The research sample using companies listed in Indonesia Stock Exchange in 2009-2011. "The technique of purposive sampling method. " These results indicate that managerial ownership has a negative effect on the quality of earnings , proportion of independent directors has a positive effect on the quality of earnings. Key words:Managerial ownership, Proportion Independent Commissioner , Earnings Quality


Author(s):  
Chih-Yi Hsiao ◽  
Qing-Yuan Zhang ◽  
Hao-Nan Huang ◽  
Wei-Xun Xi

Since the meeting of China Securities Regulatory Commission in 2020 once again emphasized the issue of earnings quality of corporate governance, this paper intends to study this issue from different perspectives. This study takes the IT industry of China's A-share listed companies from 2015 to 2019 as the sample, and makes an empirical analysis with the fuzzy set/ Qualitative Comparative Analysis (fs/QCA). The results show that the companies with large scale and good corporate governance concept, poor financial structure but with the assistance of external experts, high salary and high proportion of independent directors have relatively high earnings quality. According to the above research results. According to the findings, we put forward the following suggestions. For enterprises, good corporate governance concept and the concept of integrity are very important, but there must be efficient operation of the board of directors in order to play the role of corporate governance. Therefore, the size of the board of directors should not be too large, but it can be adjusted flexibly depends on whether the required professionals are enough. In addition, enterprises with poor financial structure should rely on the assistance of professional managers, rather than using earnings manipulation to obtain short-term benefits. For the regulators of listed companies, the procedures of independent directors’ selection should be more strictly supervised, so as not to make the setting of independent directors become mere formality. For investors, we should always pay attention to the corporate governance, and announce the disclosure of real-time information about directors, supervisors and senior executives, to prevent losses caused by investment misjudgment.


Author(s):  
Zahra Al Nasser

High earnings quality (EQ) is one of the company's pillars of long-term success in building investor confidence. This study investigates whether or not corporate governance (CG) affects the EQ of non-financial companies listed on the Saudi Arabian Stock Exchange known as Tadawul. This research study uses data from a sample of 482 firm-year observations of these companies in the period from 2009 to 2013. The author adopts the Generalized Method of Moments (GMM) regression model. This research study contributes to the current literature by providing new evidence of the effect of CG on the EQ of the Saudi Arabian non-financial companies listed on the Tadawul. Specifically, not all CG attributes affect each company's EQ in the same way. This study's findings show that important CG attributes, which enhance the company's EQ, are the number of the company's independent directors, the separation of the dual role between the company's CEO and chairperson, and the financial or accounting expertise of the members of the company's audit committee members.


2012 ◽  
Vol 31 (2) ◽  
pp. 43-72 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jong-Hag Choi ◽  
Jeong-Bon Kim ◽  
Annie A. Qiu ◽  
Yoonseok Zang

SUMMARY Using a large sample of audit client firms, this paper investigates whether and how the geographic proximity between auditor and client affects audit quality proxied by accrual-based earnings quality. We define an auditor as a local auditor (1) if the auditor's practicing office is located in the same metropolitan statistical area (MSA) as the client's headquarters, and (2) if the geographic distance between the two cities where the auditor's practicing office and the client's headquarters are located is within 100 kilometers, or they are in the same MSA. As predicted, our empirical results are consistent with local auditors providing higher-quality audit services than non-local auditors. In addition, as predicted, this quality difference is weakened for diversified clients with more operating or geographic segments. The results are robust to a variety of sensitivity checks. Overall, our evidence suggests that informational advantages associated with local audits enable auditors to better constrain management's biased earnings reporting, with greater advantages for less diversified clients. JEL Classification: M42.


2013 ◽  
Vol 18 (4) ◽  
pp. 1123-1158 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniel Bryan ◽  
M. H. Carol Liu ◽  
Samuel L. Tiras ◽  
Zili Zhuang

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