Download or read book Assessing Financial Reporting Quality of Family Firms written by Aloke Ghosh and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We analyze audit fees and audit risk to extract auditor's assessment of family firms' financial reporting quality. Relative to non-family firms, we find that auditors charge significantly less from family firms and the fee difference shrinks in magnitude when family firms have high audit risk. Using constructs for audit risk and audit effort, we show that family firms have lower audit risk and that their auditors work less to provide assurance. Our findings suggest that superior reporting quality lowers audit risk and the need for greater audit investments, which is why auditors charge less from family firms.
Download or read book Accounting Choices in Family Firms written by Silvia Ferramosca and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-03-13 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a critical analysis of the current state of knowledge on the relationship between family firms and a wide range of accounting choices, including earnings management, accounting conservatism, and financial and non-financial disclosure. In examining the choices made in family firms, the authors explore and elucidate the relevance of agency, socioemotional wealth, stewardship, and resource-based theories. Readers will also find close consideration of the impacts of a country’s culture and societal values on accounting choices. In particular, further evidence is provided on the impact of different cultures on accounting conservatism in family businesses. Finally, avenues for future accounting research on family firms are discussed, highlighting theoretical and empirical challenges. In addition to offering a revealing analysis of the influence of ownership types and cultures on accounting choices within family firms, the book identifies significant practical implications for the management of family firms and policy implications for regulators and standard setters.
Download or read book The SAGE Handbook of Family Business written by Leif Melin and published by SAGE. This book was released on 2013-11-15 with total page 697 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The SAGE Handbook of Family Business captures the conceptual map and state-of-the-art thinking on family business - an area experiencing rapid global growth in research and education since the last three decades. Edited by the leading figures in family business studies, with contributions and editorial board support from the most prominent scholars in the field, this Handbook reflects on the development and current status of family enterprise research in terms of applied theories, methods, topics investigated, and perspectives on the field′s future. The SAGE Handbook of Family Business is divided into following six sections, allowing for ease of navigation while gaining a multi-dimensional perspective and understanding of the field. Part I: Theoretical perspectives in family business studies Part II: Major issues in family business studies Part III: Entrepreneurial and managerial aspects in family business studies Part IV: Behavioral and organizational aspects in family business studies Part V: Methods in use in family business studies Part VI: The future of the field of family business studies By including critical reflections and presenting possible alternative perspectives and theories, this Handbook contributes to the framing of future research on family enterprises around the world. It is an invaluable resource for current and future scholars interested in understanding the unique dynamics of family enterprises under the rubric of entrepreneurship, strategic management, organization theory, accounting, marketing or other related areas.
Download or read book Industry Specialist Auditors and Audit Fees in Family Firms written by Fei Kang and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 87 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I examine whether and how family firms' unique ownership structure and agency problems affect their choice of industry-specialist auditors and the level of audit fees. Following prior literature, I define family firms as those in which members of the founding family continue to hold positions in top management, sit on the board, or are blockholders. Compared to non-family firms, family firms are subject to less severe Type I agency problems due to family owners' long-term horizon and close monitoring of managers, but face more severe Type II agency conflicts due to the concentrated ownership and excess of control rights over cash flow rights held by family owners. Using data from the S & P 1500 firms, I find that family firms are more likely to appoint industry-specialist auditors and incur lower audit fees than non-family firms. The results suggest that family firms have strong incentives to hire industry specialists to signal the quality of their financial reporting due to the Type II agency problems, and that they have lower assessed audit risk and less demand for external audit services due to the mitigated Type I agency problems. My additional analysis shows that, compared to family firms without dual-class shares, family firms with dual-class shares have higher demand for industry-specialist auditors to signal firms' disclosure quality. Furthermore, my results indicate that, when family members serve as CEOs, firms have a stronger tendency to hire industry specialists and to pay lower audit fees. In addition, although family firms have a higher likelihood of hiring industry-specialist auditors than non-family firms, I find no evidence that family firms purchase more non-audit services from their incumbent auditors.
Download or read book Auditor s Perceptions of Financial Reporting Quality written by Michalis Bekiaris and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: According to IASB a key prerequisite for quality in financial reporting is the adherence to the objective and the qualitative characteristics of financial reporting information. Qualitative characteristics are the attributes that make financial information useful and consist of relevance, faithful representation, comparability, verifiability, timeliness and understandability. This paper aims to investigate auditor's perceptions of the quality of financial reports based on the qualitative characteristics of financial reporting information defined by IASB in its conceptual framework. In addition, it aims to identify the key factors that influence and improve the quality of financial reports, as well as the factors that lead to poor quality. Finally, an effort is made to assess the quality of financial reporting of Greek companies according to each qualitative characteristic of financial reporting information. Results indicate that auditors perceive the qualitative characteristics of financial reporting information as important quality elements of financial reports. As far as the quality of financial reports of Greek companies is concerned auditors perceive it to be of moderate quality attributed mainly to earnings management, poor corporate governance, family ownership and deviation from accounting principles.
Download or read book How Family Firms Differ written by S. Bhaumik and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-11-25 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Family firms account for a large proportion of firms in most countries. In industrialised countries of North America and Western Europe, they generally account for a large share of small and medium sized enterprises. In emerging market economies such as India, they also account for the majority of the large firms. Their importance for factors such as employment creation notwithstanding, relative to the widely held Anglo-Saxon firms, which are ubiquitous in the economics, finance and management literatures, family firms have historically received much less attention from scholars of these disciplines. However, in part owing to increased focus on emerging markets, there is a growing literature on family firms. In How Family Firms Differ, the authors explore important aspects of family firms, drawing on the existing literature and their own research on these firms.
Download or read book Capital Structure Earnings Management and Risk of Financial Distress written by Pietro Gottardo and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-09-24 with total page 103 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book analyzes the impacts that family control of firms has on capital structure choices, leverage and the risk of financial distress, earnings management practices, and the relation between accounting choices and firm market value. For these purposes, longitudinal data on Italian family and non-family non-financial firms are closely analyzed. The Italian setting is of special interest in this context because family businesses account for 94% of GDP, families are particularly committed to maintaining control of firms, and the economy is bank based rather than market based. The analyses draw on the socioemotional wealth approach, which emphasizes the importance of the stock of emotional value in family firms, in combination with financial theories such as Pecking Order Theory, Trade-off Theory, and Agency Theory. The findings cast significant new light on differences between family and non-family firms and the effects of different forms of family influence. The book will have broad appeal for academics, managers, practitioners, and policymakers.
Download or read book Family Business by the Numbers written by Norbert E. Schwarz and published by Family Enterprise Publisher. This book was released on 2004 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Advances in Pacific Basin Business Economics and Finance written by Cheng-Few Lee and published by Emerald Group Publishing. This book was released on 2017-09-29 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Advances in Pacific Basin Business, Economics, and Finance is an annual publication designed to focus on interdisciplinary research in finance, economics, and management. It particularly emphasizes the economic, financial, and management relationships among Pacific Rim countries.
Download or read book Founding Family Ownership and the Selection of Industry Specialist Auditors written by Fei Kang and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study examines how family firms' unique ownership structure and agency problems affect their selection of industry-specialist auditors. Using data from Standard & Poor's (S&P) 1500 firms, the results show that family firms are more likely to appoint industry-specialist auditors than non-family firms, which suggests that family firms have strong incentives to signal the quality of financial reporting. Additional analysis indicates that due to the potential entrenchment problems, family firms with family member CEOs or with dual-class shares have even a higher tendency to hire industry-specialist auditors to signal their disclosure quality.
Download or read book Financial Reporting and Disclosure Practices written by Peddina Mohana Rao and published by Deep and Deep Publications. This book was released on 2000 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Discretionary Reporting of Noncontrolling Interests and Its Association with the Market Assessment of Credit Risk written by Bei Dong and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Accounting and Financial Reporting Challenges for Government Non Profits and the Private Sector written by Albuquerque, Fábio and published by IGI Global. This book was released on 2023-05-18 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To follow the macroeconomic scenario in which the entities are inserted, financial reporting is constantly evolving. In addition to the topics that need to be considered, there is also an evolution in how the report itself is produced and analyzed where technological developments exert a permanent influence on the process. Several of the trending topics do not fall within the jurisdiction of the competent authorities. The needs of the users of the report also influence the form and content of the report as an element that also changes over time. Accounting and Financial Reporting Challenges for Government, Non-Profits, and the Private Sector addresses the latest accounting topics and their practical and educational relations with local and international regulations, standards, and practices. It deals with new challenges and trends in accounting and reporting for organizations from different institutional sectors, including private, public, and non-profit ones. Covering topics such as creative accounting, financial reporting, and stakeholder participation, this premier reference source is an excellent resource for accountants, government officials, business leaders, managers, policymakers, students and educators of higher education, librarians, researchers, and academicians.
Download or read book Performance and Behavior of Family Firms written by Esra Memili and published by MDPI. This book was released on 2018-03-23 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a printed edition of the Special Issue "Performance and Behavior of Family Firms" that was published in IJFS
Download or read book Business and the Ethical Implications of Technology written by Kirsten Martin and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-12-11 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book focuses on how firms should engage ethical choices in developing and deploying digital technologies. Digital technologies are devices that rely on rapidly accelerating digital sensing, storage, and transmission capabilities to intervene in human processes. While the ethics of technology is analyzed across disciplines from science and technology studies (STS), engineering, computer science, critical management studies, and law, less attention is paid to the role that firms and managers play in the design, development, and dissemination of technology across communities and within their firm. This book covers the topic from three angles. First, it illuminates diverse facets of the intersection of technology and business ethics. Second, it uses themes to explore what business ethics offers to the study of technology and, third, what technology studies offers to the field of business ethics. Each field brings expertise that, together, improves our understanding of the ethical implications of technology. Chapter “A Micro-ethnographic Study of Big Data-Based Innovation in the Financial Services Sector: Governance, Ethics and Organisational Practices", chapter ”The Challenges of Algorithm-Based HR Decision-Making for Personal Integrity" and chapter “Female CEOs and Core Earnings Quality: New Evidence on the Ethics Versus Risk-Aversion Puzzle" are available open access under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license via link.springer.com.
Download or read book The Palgrave Handbook of Heterogeneity among Family Firms written by Esra Memili and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-09-05 with total page 1016 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This handbook is the definitive source of research on the differences among family firms. It provides a timely and thorough investigation of the variant strategies and behaviors undertaken by family firms today, taking a closer look at different configurations of family involvement and how they influence outcomes and success. While studies on differences between family and non-family firms are deeply rooted in the literature, this handbook uniquely examines the family firm heterogeneity research to date and the inner firm governance, financial and non-financial objectives, and strategies such as innovation, competitive dynamics, internationalization, and human resources management. The handbook pulls together the work of the most prominent names in family business from around the world, separating itself from the competition both in content and geographical scope. Future research directions provided in each chapter will spark further interdisciplinary scholarly work, and will be enlightening for researchers, educators, and practitioners who are currently limited to the narrow and exclusive literature and advance the burgeoning research on this important topic.
Download or read book Family Firm Research A Review written by Qiang Cheng and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 15 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This article reviews family firm studies in the finance and accounting literature, primarily those conducted using data from the United States and China. Family owners have unique features such as concentrated ownership, long investment horizon, and reputation concerns. Given the distinguishing features of family ownership and control, family firms face unique agency conflicts. We discuss the agency problems in family firms and review the findings of recent family firm studies. We call for more research to understand the unique family effects and encourage more research on Chinese family firms.Part I of the article discusses the fundaments of family firms: the prevalence of and the agency conflicts within family firms. Part II summarizes the findings of recent U.S. family firm studies. It reviews the evidence on the family firm premium (how, which, and when family firms are associated with a valuation premium), the manifestation of the agency conflict between majority and minority shareholders in family firms, earnings quality and corporate disclosure, and the determinants of family ownership and control. Part III discusses the prevalence and characteristics of Chinese family firms and reviews the findings of related studies. The article concludes with some suggestions for future research.
