Self-Assessing Your Empirical Accounting Research

Author(s):  
John Harry Evans ◽  
Mei Feng ◽  
Vicky B. Hoffman ◽  
Donald V. Moser

2015 ◽  
Vol 32 (3) ◽  
pp. 1162-1192 ◽  
Author(s):  
John Harry Evans ◽  
Mei Feng ◽  
Vicky B. Hoffman ◽  
Donald V. Moser ◽  
Wim A. van der Stede




Author(s):  
Eli Amir ◽  
Jose M. Carabias ◽  
Jonathan Jona ◽  
Gilad Livne


Author(s):  
Matthias Breuer ◽  
Harm H. Schütt

AbstractWe provide an applied introduction to Bayesian estimation methods for empirical accounting research. To showcase the methods, we compare and contrast the estimation of accruals models via a Bayesian approach with the literature’s standard approach. The standard approach takes a given model of normal accruals for granted and neglects any uncertainty about the model and its parameters. By contrast, our Bayesian approach allows incorporating parameter and model uncertainty into the estimation of normal accruals. This approach can increase power and reduce false positives in tests for opportunistic earnings management as a result of better estimates of normal accruals and more robust inferences. We advocate the greater use of Bayesian methods in accounting research, especially since they can now be easily implemented in popular statistical software packages.



2005 ◽  
Vol 19 (3) ◽  
pp. 159-186 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christine A. Botosan ◽  
Lisa Koonce ◽  
Stephen G. Ryan ◽  
Mary S. Stone ◽  
James M. Wahlen

In this paper, we summarize conceptual issues that arise in the definition, recognition, derecognition, classification, and measurement of liabilities. We also highlight problems in existing accounting standards for liabilities and identify opportunities to refine those standards. Where relevant, we describe evidence from empirical accounting research involving liabilities and identify opportunities for future research. Our objective is to highlight the inconsistencies and controversies surrounding existing accounting standards for liabilities, and to describe the research evidence that provides insights into accounting for liabilities. A better understanding of the current problems in accounting for liabilities and the related research evidence should help standard setters and their constituents in their attempts to improve GAAP, and should stimulate future academic research to shed new light on accounting for liabilities.





Author(s):  
Jonathan L. Rogers ◽  
Andrew Van Buskirk




2013 ◽  
Vol 55 (1) ◽  
pp. 43-65 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jonathan L. Rogers ◽  
Andrew Van Buskirk


2011 ◽  
Vol 2 (3) ◽  
pp. 9
Author(s):  
Wahjudi P. Benjamin ◽  
John E. McEnroe

A number of empirical accounting research studies from the late 1960s to the present have been concerned with the effects of the policy behavior of accounting rule-making bodies on the behavior of security prices affected by the accounting pronouncement, and are occasionally referred to as policy intervention studies.



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