Accounting Standards

Recent decades have seen extraordinary growth in cross-border debt financing as financial systems become more globally integrated and companies take advantage of foreign markets to share risk, increase liquidity, and obtain cheaper capital. In the first study to comprehensively identify corporate rating patterns for a broad set of international firms, HKUST ... 阅读更多

Accounting errors are a commonly acknowledged phenomenon. A 2007 Wall Street Journal report found about 10 per cent of public companies in the US issued financial restatements to address errors, and it is likely many more errors did not get corrected. Yet despite this magnitude, there has been little empirical testing of the effect of errors on firm ... 阅读更多