Browsing by Subject "Financial reporting quality"

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    Are CEO experience and financial expertise associated with financial restatements?
    (Universidad de Murcia, Servicio de Publicaciones, 2021) Rezaee, Zabihollah; Asiaei, Kaveh; Safdel Delooie, Toktam
    This study examines whether and how Chief Executive Officer (CEO) experience and financial expertise affect financial restatements (FR) by investigating a sample of Iranian listed companies from 2008 to 2017. We define experienced CEOs as those who are hired from inside the firm and financial expert CEOs as those who hold an accounting qualification or have work experience as an auditor, chief financial officer (CFO), controller, and or other accounting-related positions. We find that FR is positively associated with insider CEOs (CEOs with more internal experience), and negatively associated with CEO financial expertise. Moreover, we find that CEO experience is negatively associated with FR when the CEO is a financial expert. This result highlights the importance of financial background for senior executives. Further, our results show that insider CEOs can improve the financial reporting quality through reducing FR when they have higher decision-making power. This study contributes to the literature on CEO characteristics and financial reporting. The results provide important implications for policymakers and the board of directors in emerging economies regarding the requirement to appoint top managers with financial expertise.
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    Auditoría interna y deficiencias de la información financiera en el sector bancario español
    (2015) Gras Gil, Ester; García-Pérez de Lema, Domingo; Marín-Hernández, Salvador
    La auditoría interna (AI) ha cobrado un papel trascendental en la regulación sobre el gobierno corporativo. En este sentido, se le otorga un papel fundamental en la calidad de la información financiera como supervisora de la fiabilidad de la misma. El presente trabajo analiza si la estructura y las características de la AI afectan a las deficiencias de la información contable. Para ello hemos analizado los departamentos de AI de las entidades financieras españolas, utilizando una muestra de 47 entidades, para el periodo 2006-2010. Nuestros resultados muestran que existen unas aracterísticas de la AI que contribuyen a que la entidad presente menos deficiencias de la información financiera: la formación de los auditores internos y la independencia de la AI.
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    CAE Remuneration and Financial Reporting Quality
    (2021) Alzeban, Abdulaziz
    This paper reports on a study exploring the relationship between the fixed remuneration paid to the Chief Auditing Executive (CAE), and the subsequent financial reporting quality (FRQ). The study argues from the viewpoint that a strategy of compensation provided on the basis of company performance is detrimental to FRQ, and that when the CAE receives fixed remuneration, there is less threat to internal audit (IA) objectivity, and hence, greater FRQ as proxied by accruals quality. Data are obtained via a survey questionnaire, and information offered within annual reports. The findings indicate that when the CAE is compensated according to company performance, objectivity is reduced, with the consequent outcome that FRQ is impaired. Furthermore, when CAE remuneration and compensation are approved by the audit committee, rather than by the CEO, FRQ is higher. Evidence that the effects of IA objectivity are eliminated when the CEO is involved in approving CAE remuneration and compensation is also found. The study provides insights into the question of whether CAE remuneration enhances IA objectivity, and in doing so is of interest to audit committees with responsibility in that direction. Two different estimation methods are used as a means of confirming the robustness of these results
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    Gobierno corporativo y deficiencias de la información contable
    (2007) Callao Gastón, Susana; Gasca Galán, María del Mar; Jarne Jarne, José Ignacio
    Basándonos en las empresas cotizadas en el mercado español, el presente trabajo aporta evidencia empírica sobre la relación existente entre el gobierno y propiedad empresariales y la calidad de la información. Los resultados del análisis univariante muestran diferencias estadísticamente significativas entre empresas con y sin deficiencias en la información, en variables relacionadas con la separación entre gobierno y dirección y la concentración de la propiedad. La regresión multivariante muestra una relación significativa y negativa entre nivel de calidad y grado de separación entre gobierno y dirección, y positiva respecto a la concentración de la propiedad. Por otro lado, la situación económica es peor en las empresas con peor calidad de información.
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    The effect of corporate governance factors on the quality of financial reporting in family and non-family firms
    (2020) Capela Borralho, João Miguel; Gallardo-Vázquez, Dolores; Hernández-Linares, Remedios
    The objective of this study is to explore the quality of financial information of Spanish firms, by comparing family firms with non-family firms, and relating this quality with corporate governance practices. For this purpose, a sample of 650 Spanish firms was analysed during the period 2011-2016. Based on agency theory and socioemotional wealth literature, the results show a higher quality of financial information in family firms, a relationship which is reinforced by corporate governance factors. Our results are consistent with the scant previous research, and with the premises of agency theory, which indicate lower asymmetry of information between owners and managers in the singular context of family firms. Additionally, our work provides evidence that the participation of women on the board boosts the quality of financial information in family firms, contributing to the justification of family firm heterogeneity in terms of earnings management. This study contributes to reducing the gap in the literature on the influence of the family business context and the influence of women on the board on the quality of financial reporting