CPA Practice Advisor: Research: App-Reliant Investors Should Ignore the Dings of Push Notifications

Accounting Today: Studies question need for auditor rotation

CFO Dive: Rotations don't lead to audit improvements, studies find

CFO: Audit Partner Rotation Delivers Few Benefits: Study

CPA Practice Advisor: Should U.S. Broaden Mandate on Auditor Rotation?

Financial Times: The contagious risks and rewards of remote working

CFO Dive: High transparency culture can work against performance

CPA Practice Advisor: Can Corporate Transparency Inhibit Worker Productivity?

Thomson Reuters: Companies that Cut Back Auditors’ Tax Services for Appearances Had Higher Tax Rates, Study Finds

NPR: Workplace sexual misconduct hurts company value, new data shows

Bloomberg: A #MeToo Lesson for CEOs: Being a Creep Puts Stock Price at Risk

CFO Dive: Rank-and-file sexual harassment can devalue companies by 20%

CFO: Sexual Harassment Foreshadows Weak Stock Performance: Study

Value Walk: Sexual Harassment Foreshadows Declining Stock Returns

CPA Practice Advisor: Sexual Harassment Can Cause Stock Market Trouble for Public Businesses

Inc.: New Research: Status Reports Can Make Teams Less Effective

CFO: Frequent Worker Reporting Lowers Worker Performance

CFO Dive: Staff do worse when asked to report frequently, accounting study shows

CPA Practice Advisor: Frequent Performance Reporting Causes Anxiety, Lowers Productivity in Remote Workers

Accounting Today: Avoiding tax services from audit firms proves initially costly for companies

Agenda: Study: High Comp Consultant Fees Drive up CEO Pay

CFO: Curtailing Auditors' Tax Services for Appearances Brings Higher Rates

CFO Dive: Companies face higher costs after dismissing auditor's tax services

ValueWalk - Curtailing Auditor Tax Services Raises Firms' Taxes: Study

CFO Dive: Study: Higher-paid consultants tend to recommend higher CEO compensation

Accounting Today: Educating the future

CFO: High Fees for Exec-Comp Consultants a Tipoff to Sumptuous CEO Pay: Study

CPA Practice Advisor: High Fees for Compensation Consultants Leads to Higher CEO Pay

Value Walk: EC Fees Likely a Tipoff to Sumptuous CEO Pay

Accounting Today: Congress should leave accounting standards to FASB

Accounting Today: Study questions effectiveness of TCJA at stemming foreign R&D shifting

CFO Dive: Wages holding back repatriation of foreign profits, study finds

CFO: Multinational Derive Huge Benefits From Shifting R&D Abroad

CPA Practice Advisor: Did Corporate Tax Cuts Reduce Shifts Abroad?

Accounting Today: Small companies avoid internal controls attestations by taking on debt

CFO Dive: Study: Pandemic impact on small companies worsened by Sarbanes-Oxley

CFO: SOX 404 Exemption Pushes Small Companies to Incur Debt: Study

CPA Practice Advisor: Some Businesses Choosing Debt Over Selling Stock to Avoid Audit

Value Walk: SOX 404-driven choice could prove costly in COVID-19 era

Post Online Media: If you want long term strategy, hire local CEO

CPA Practice Advisor: Local-Sourced CEOs More Likely to Think Long Term

CFO Dive: Local Leaders possess greater long-term company focus

CFO: Locally Grown CEOs Manage for the Longer Term

CPA Practice Advisor: Report: Is Extreme Language in Earnings Calls a Benefit for Investors and Managers?

IR Magazine: Extreme language on earnings calls has positive result, study finds

Seeking Alpha – Earnings Lies and Why Munger Says "EBITDA Is Bull S***"

CFO Dive: Extreme optimism on earnings calls OK, study finds

CFO: "Extreme Language" in Earnings Calls Linked to Outperformance

Inc.: Some Teams Perform Better When Paid Less, According to New Research

WG&L Accounting and Compliance Alert: Executive Compensation “Clawback" May Encourage Companies to Look for Tax Savings, Study Finds

CPA Practice Advisor: For Organizations with a Social Mission, Low Pay Does Not Equal Low Performance

CFO Dive: 2020 Trends: Rise of the CFO-COO

CFO Dive: Study: Mission-motivated employees perform better despite lower pay

Dec26

Accounting Today: Clawbacks lower business taxes, but provoke questions

Dec18

ValueWalk: Effective tax rates: With date of Dodd-Frank rule on clawbacks in doubt

Dec16

CFO Dive: Clawbacks appear to cause more harm than good, study finds

Dec16

CFO: Do Clawback Policies Accomplish Their Desired Purpose?

Nov25

CPA Practice Advisor: Should CFOs Serve on Other Companies Boards?

Nov24

CFO Dive: Companies gain when their CFO sits on outside boards

Nov22

JDSupra: Blog: Should CFOs serve on outside boards?

Nov20

The Wall Street Journal: Companies Benefit When Their CFOs Join Outside Boards, Research Suggests

Nov20

CFO: Outside Board Service Boosts Inside Accounting Quality

Nov8

Agenda: Retired Audit Partners on Boards: Yay or Nay?

Nov7

Going Concern: PwC Probably Did Celebrate When It Helped Mattel Cover Up an Accounting Error

Nov4

JD Supra: Blog: Does appointment of a former partner of the client’s audit firm to the client’s audit committee impair audit quality

Nov1

Economia: Companies Benefit when auditor’s alumni sits on board

Nov1

CFO Dive: Audit quality improves when former partners sit on audit committee

Oct31

ValueWalk: Danger when alumnus of a firm’s audit firm sits on an audit committee?

Oct31

Accounting Today: Audit committees not compromised by audit from alumni, says study

Oct29

ThomsonReuters: Accounting & Compliance Alert

Oct16

Value Walk: Litigation risk spurs firms’ earnings openness: Study

Oct15

CFO Dive: Companies more open when they face higher lawsuit risk

Oct14

Agenda: Tracking “Bad Actor” Audit Engagement Partners

Oct4

Market Watch: Naming audit partners isn’t driving audit quality yet, says study

Sep23

CFO Dive: Red Points the latest company to merge CFO, COO positions

Sep23

CPA Practice Advisor: Does Audit Partner Disclosure Rule Enhance Financial Reporting?

Sep20

Corporate Secretary: The week in GRC: This week’s governance, compliance and risk-management stories from around the web

Sep19

Economia: Naming US lead partner on audit has achieved…nothing -

Sep18

Accounting Today – Study questions value of audit partner disclosure requirement

Sep18

The Wall Street Journal: Rule to Identify Audit Partners Doesn’t Improve Audit Quality

Sep17

Value Walk: Did PCAOB Rule 3211 bring about a change in audit quality?

Sep17

CFO Dive: Disclosure rule hasn’t improved audit quality, researchers say

Sep16

Law360: Data Trickles in On TCJA’s Job Offshoring Effects

Sep10

CPA Practice Advisor: Which Do Investors Prefer: Good Corporate Citizenship or Tax Minimization?

Sep4

CFO Dive: Investors punish companies that combine philanthropy and tax avoidance

Sep4

Politico – Morning Tax

Sep3

CFO: Investors Shun Companies that Play “Robin Hood”

Sep3

ValueWalk: Investors Favor CSR and Tax Avoidance

Aug28

CFO Dive: CFOs must be ‘strategic business partner’ as role merges with COO

Aug22

Going Concern: It Turns Out Clients Really Don’t Like It When Auditors Call Them Out on Their Sh*t

Aug21

Thomson Reuters: Auditors Who Do Their Jobs Are Penalized, Study Indicates

Aug13

Compliance Week: Market punishes auditors who flag control issues, study says

Aug13

WSJ Market Watch: Companies are pressuring auditors to leave criticism out of audit opinions, research finds

Aug13

Economia: Auditors reporting weaknesses are "less attractive", study says

Aug13

CFO Dive: Auditors penalized for highlighting companies’ weak internal controls

Aug12

Agenda: CFOs Fulfilling Operations Roles “Admirably”

Aug12

Accounting Today: Companies penalize audit firms for flagging their own weaknesses

Aug12

The Wall Street Journal: Companies Appear to Avoid Hiring Auditors With a History of Critical Audits, New Research Shows

Aug12

CFO: Fresh Evidence of Auditor Bias Emerges

Aug12

CPA Practice Advisor: How the Audit Market Penalizes Auditors for Doing Their Job

Jul26

Law 360 Tax Authority: Foreign Investment Increased After TCJA, Accounting Group Says

Jul25

Politico: Checking in on Repeat

Jul24

Accounting Today: TCJA Boosted multinationals’ investments overseas more than in U.S.

Jul24

CFO: Tax Reform Spurs Major Unintended Consequence

Jul24

CPA Practice Advisor: Tax Reform bill Has Boosted Business Investments Abroad More Than In U.S.

Jul10

Revcycle Intelligence: Healthcare CFO Role Evolving to Improve Enterprise Performance

Jul8

Becker’s Hospital Review: Dual CFO-COO role improves financial reporting, study finds

Jul8

The Wall Street Journal: Companies Benefit From Combining CFO and COO Jobs, Study Finds

Jun21

CPA Practice Advisor: CFOs Expanding Role in Management

Jun20

CFO: What Happens When the CFO Is the COO, Too?

Jun7

Accounting Today: Executive pay clawbacks could backfire, says study

Jun5

CPA Practice Advisor: Do Clawback Penalties Spur Misreporting?

May28

Value Walk: Do Clawbacks Cause As Many Problems As They Prevent?

May28

CFO: Do Clawbacks Cause as Many Problems as They Prevent?

May14

Compliance Week: SOX did not end audit opinion shopping, study says

May13

Accountancy Daily: 'Opinion shopping' for auditors reduces business red flags

May9

Economia: More than half of businesses “opinion shopping”

May8

Accounting Today: Opinion shopping hurts auditor independence

May8

CFO: “Opinion-Shopping” Compromises Auditor Independence

May8

ValueWalk: Auditor Opinion-Shopping Aids Companies At Expense of Investors: Study

Apr24

Compliance Week: Options drive more risk than stocks, study says

Apr17

Accounting Today: Corporate income smoothing tied to CEO stocks and options

Apr15

CFO: CEO Stock Options Drive Income Smoothing

Apr15

CPA Practice Advisor: Why Do Companies Smooth Their Income on Reporting?

Apr15

ValueWalk: What Drives Company Income Smoothing> Check CEO Stocks and Options

Apr2

The Globe and Mail: The incursion of AI into the workplace brings an urgent need for human soft skills

Mar18

Thomson Reuters Tax and Accounting: SEC’s Effort to Exempt More Companies From Audits of Financial Controls Likely to Face Investor Resistance

Mar14

CPA Practice Advisor: Accounting Professors Explore Unusual Turf

Mar10

Infosurhoy: Inventory analysts intensify the destructive so corporations can obtain extra positives, research finds

Mar5

Knowledge@Wharton – When Tax Strategies Are Problematic for Firms - and Investors

Mar4

Financial Times: PwC accused of ignoring conflicts over Staffline audit

Feb22

Accounting Today: Financial analysts tend to stress bad news in earnings forecasts

Feb22

Accounting Today: Florida News – Accounting Hall of Fame

Feb20

SmartBrief: Reading between the lines of current-earnings forecasts

Feb19

ValueWalk: Current Quarterly Earnings Forecasts Accentuate The Negative

Feb19

CFO: Analysts’ Current Earnings Forecasts Accentuate Bad News

Jan25

Accountancy Daily: EY US sets up independent audit quality committee

Jan22

Accounting Today: Study finds aggressive tax strategies can lead to investor confusion

Jan21

CPA Practice Advisor: Does Business Tax Strategy Affect Investor Confidence?

Jan17

Politico: Companies' tax aggressiveness sows investor confusion about basics of firms' finances and operations

Jan16

CFO: Here’s Another Reason to Avoid Tax Avoidance

Jan7

CPA Practice Advisor: Investors Still Want Sarbanes-Oxley