Download or read book Using Psychology Theories in Archival Financial Accounting Research written by Lisa Koonce and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Psychologists have studied human behavior for over a century and, as a result, have developed a robust set of theories regarding how people behave. Most financial accounting issues deal with matters of human behavior, such as the judgments and decisions of managers, investors, analysts, and auditors. Consequently, psychology offers a rich pool of theories from which financial accounting researchers can draw to motivate hypotheses and interpret results. Despite this, archival accounting researchers traditionally have relied almost solely on theories based in financial economics. We argue that two major obstacles to the use of psychology theories by archival researchers has been a lack of awareness about the theories that are available and when their use would be most productive. Our paper attempts to bridge this gap. Specifically, we describe a number of psychology theories that are applicable to financial accounting issues, lay out the circumstances where they may be especially useful to archival researchers, and provide a number of specific examples of how psychology theories provide new insights about financial accounting issues.
Download or read book Advances in Accounting Behavioral Research written by Vicky Arnold and published by Emerald Group Publishing. This book was released on 2006-06-05 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents an empirical research in accounting theory. This book includes content that crosses into the fields of applied psychology, sociology, management science, and economics.
Download or read book Experimental Research in Financial Reporting written by Robert Bloomfield and published by Now Publishers Inc. This book was released on 2009 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Experimental Research in Financial Reporting examines the use of virtual worlds as next-generation laboratories that can help experimental researchers implement features of complex institutions that are not feasible in traditional laboratory settings. This new technology, originally developed for online computer games, lends itself very well to complex economic settings with large numbers of agents interacting through complex institutions for long periods of time. These virtual worlds provide the opportunity to construct settings whose complexity approaches those that accounting researchers wish to study. Since the settings are virtual, researchers can use experimental methods to control and manipulate institutional features (like accounting regulations) and environmental features (such as industry forces) to allow clear causal inferences with limited reliance on econometrics.
Download or read book Psychology Models of Management Accounting written by Joan Luft and published by Now Publishers Inc. This book was released on 2010 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Psychology Models of Management Accounting analyzes the contributions of psychology-based research to explaining patterns in individuals' management accounting related decision-making.
Download or read book The Routledge Companion to Behavioural Accounting Research written by Theresa Libby and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-11-06 with total page 656 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Behavioural research is well established in the social sciences, and has flourished in the field of accounting in recent decades. This far-reaching and reliable collection provides a definitive resource on current knowledge in this new approach, as well as providing a guide to the development and implementation of a Behavioural Accounting Research project. The Routledge Companion to Behavioural Accounting Research covers a full range of theoretical, methodological and statistical approaches relied upon by behavioural accounting researchers, giving the reader a good grounding in both theoretical perspectives and practical applications. The perspectives cover a range of countries and contexts, bringing in seminal chapters by an international selection of behavioural accounting scholars, including Robert Libby and William R. Kinney, Jr. This book is a vital introduction for Ph.D. students as well as a valuable resource for established behavioural accounting researchers.
Download or read book Finance and Psychology A never ending love story Behavioural Finance and its impact on the credit crunch in 2009 written by Patrick Kemtzian and published by diplom.de. This book was released on 2015-02-01 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the last decades many financial crises have emerged, like the stock crash of 1987, the Asian crisis in 1997 and the global financial crisis that started in 2008. Although those crises occurred for different reasons, they all proved financial markets to be inefficient. Not all traders think rationally. Behavioural patterns cause irrationality amongst traders. Even after decades of research in this field, financial crises like the latest one in 2008 still develop out of a combination of different behavioural patterns like herding. As a consequence those patterns deserve an in-depth analysis that is conducted by the author in this work. In order to find out to what extent behavioural finance influences the decision –making process of traders and investors the seven most relevant behavioural patterns have been identified and analysed through qualitative research in form of primary research. The informal interview with the sophisticated trader Thomas Vittner serves as empirical evidence for the significance of the determined behavioural patterns. To find out, whether public investors and traders showed a herding behaviour towards analysts’ stock recommendations in the financial crisis and its recovery, quantitative research has been made by conducting an experiment. Stocks performances in relation to analysts’ recommendations were analysed and evaluated. The author’s selected behavioural patterns are influencing traders’ and investors’ decision-making processes to a large extent as their majority trades irrationally. The herding behaviour to follow analysts’ stock recommendations only holds partially in the crisis and in the recovery phase. The results show that whereas the majority of analysts’ recommendations matched with market trends before the crisis, only about half matched during the crisis and its recovery. People tended to follow the general signals of the market, rather than to recommendations given by analysts.
Download or read book Advances in Accounting Behavioral Research written by Khondkar E. Karim and published by Emerald Group Publishing. This book was released on 2022-08-25 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focusing on research that examines both individual and organizational behavior relative to accounting, Volume 25 of Advances in Accounting Behavioral Research uncovers emerging theories, methods and applications.
Download or read book Advances in Accounting Behavioral Research written by Vicky Arnold and published by Emerald Group Publishing. This book was released on 2008-07-07 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes an article that compares the strengths and weaknesses of using a single type of research method to investigate accounting phenomenon and explains why using multiple methods provides a richer understanding of particular issues. This book includes articles, which are useful in facilitating behavioral research.
Download or read book Accounting Theory A Neglected Topic in Academic Accounting Research written by Khalid Rasheed Al-Adeem and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A careful examination of accounting literature reveals the prospect for developing normative accounting theory that is capable of meeting society's needs at any given time. Despite the importance and the possibility of developing such a type of theory, research concerning normative theorization ceased in favor of the new empirical accounting research, which investigates the usefulness of accounting information to decision-making. Launching this line of research was a consequence of changing the objectives of financial accounting. This study empirically analyzes the shift in academic accounting research as proxied by The Accounting Review (TAR). TAR is the American Accounting Association's premier journal and the American oldest accounting journal devoted to the development of accounting theory. Coding of the articles published in TAR is the research method. Depending on whether or not an article possesses the characteristics of the four variables identified in this study, each article was coded as 0 or 1 under each variable. For each issue, the articles receiving a 1 were counted and summed up. Each issue became a unit of analysis. Samples came from issues published between 1926 and 2007. The years sampled were as follows: 1926-1930, 1952-1956, 1977-1981 and 2003-2007 respectively. This study found accounting theory declined while the use of the empirical archival method, the influence of economics and finance in academic accounting research, and the financial accounting topics appealing increased. This study also found that the use of the empirical archival method is positively associated with the influence of economics and finance. Further, this study found that the influence of economics and finance is positively associated with financial accounting topics. These three trends increased in academic accounting research at the expense of discussing accounting theory as a topic in academic accounting research. The emergence of the new "financial empirical paradigm" mandated the elimination of the "conventional paradigm." The theoretical foundations underlying the new financial empirical paradigm are accepted due to their "usefulness," and they have also been enforced. Judged by its relevance to accounting practice, however contemporary academic accounting research seems to be moving away from accounting practice, broadening the schism between theory and practice.
Download or read book Advances in Management Accounting written by John Y. Lee and published by Emerald Group Publishing. This book was released on 2011-02-14 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Features articles on a call for future research on management accounting service quality; budget ratcheting and performance; effect of trust-in-superior and trustfulness on budgetary slack; relationship between purposes of budget use and budgetary slack; strategic budgeting in public schools; and, more.
Download or read book Causal Inference in Empirical Archival Financial Accounting Research written by Joachim Gassen and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 27 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study discusses the challenges and opportunities of establishing causal inference in empirical archival financial accounting research. Causal inference requires identification of a theoretically predicted causal mechanism in a research setting optimized to avoid endogenous causes and using a suitable statistical inference strategy. After briefly describing potential research design strategies, I analyze the frequency of causal studies published in leading business and economics journals. I identify causal studies by their abstract including an explicit reference to their causal nature and find that they are significantly more common in the areas of economics and finance compared to other business-oriented research disciplines like accounting. Also, the extent to which research designs are optimized for causal inference differs significantly between causal empirical archival studies in the area of financial accounting and finance. I discuss potential reasons for this gap and make some suggestions on how the demand for and supply of well-designed causal studies in the area of empirical archival financial accounting research might be increased.
Download or read book Accounting in Emerging Economies written by Mathew Tsamenyi and published by Emerald Group Publishing. This book was released on 2009-11-19 with total page 397 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Accounting research in emerging economies has grown over the years. This title includes articles that contribute to our understanding of how accounting functions in emerging economies.
Download or read book The Real Life Guide to Accounting Research written by Christopher Humphrey and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2004-04-06 with total page 580 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Real Life Guide to Accounting Research goes behind the more official presentations and accounts of research methods to explore the lived experiences, joys and mistakes of a wide range of international researchers principally working in the fields of accounting and finance, but also in management, economics and other social sciences. The authors of the articles in this book address a wide range of issues and obstacles that they have confronted at various stages in their respective research careers. In reflecting on their personal experiences, they provide practical guidance on how to overcome the types of problems that typically confront academic researchers in their day-to-day work. Practical tips on how to undertake research and get findings published Research project management skills International and interdisciplinary perspectives
Download or read book Urbanizing the Regional Sector to Strengthen Economy and Business to Recover from Recession written by Aulia Herdiani and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2022-12-07 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This pandemic does not only affect health aspects but also economic aspects. The world today faces a recession resulting from the covid-19 pandemic. Indonesia's economy continues to lead to a recovery, although not very significant. The current government continues to make various recovery efforts. One of the flagship programs includes encouraging and strengthening support for social protection and increasing the purchasing power of households as well as various business sectors, including small and medium-sized micro enterprises (MSMEs). This condition urges the world to create new breakthroughs to rise from this adversity. Academicians and practitioners need to work together to find the necessary solutions and developments. Surely, it will contribute to solve the problems in society by interdisciplinary cooperation. This collaboration will create innovations in science and technology especially business and economic field. This book includes in-depth discussions between academicians and practitioners, especially on how to strengthen the regional sectors to be the strong pillars of the country’s economy. Interestingly, various methods are used to observe the problems, to explore the solutions, and to develop the innovation. This book will be of interest to students, scholars, and practitioners of social empowerment, governance, and other related stakeholders. The Open Access version of this book, available at http://www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons [Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND)] 4.0 license. Funded by State University of Malang.
Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of Thinking and Reasoning written by Keith J. Holyoak and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2013-05-23 with total page 865 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Oxford Handbook of Thinking and Reasoning brings together the contributions of many of the leading researchers in thinking and reasoning to create the most comprehensive overview of research on thinking and reasoning that has ever been available.
Download or read book The Evolution of Behavioral Accounting Research RLE Accounting written by Robert Ashton and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-12-04 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume collects together out of print and hard to find sources on the behavioural implications of accounting. It begins with the 1952 monograph, The Impact of Budgets on People by Chris Argyris, considered by many to mark the beginning of behavioural research in accounting and is followed by: a critique of the general state of accounting research in 1960 critical evaluation of Argyris’ research and other behavioural studies discussion of the research activity in the behavioural aspects of accounting during the 1960s and 70s a comprehensive perspective on the development of behavioural accounting research in the 1980s including discussion of the division of behavioural accounting research into two branches.
Download or read book The Search for and Use of Precedents in Making Financial Accounting Decisions written by Steven Earl Salterio and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
