Financial Reports and Social Capital

I examine social capital’s impact on financial reports. Based on the social capital literature, I predict that the quality of the financial reports is higher when a firm is headquartered in a region with high social capital. Consistent with this prediction, I find that the firms that are headquarter...

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主要作者: Jha, Anand (Author)
格式: 電子 Article
語言:English
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出版: 2019
In: Journal of business ethics
Year: 2019, 卷: 155, 發布: 2, Pages: 567-596
Further subjects:B Fog index
B M14
B Social Capital
B Financial report
B Real earnings management
B M41
B G3
B Financial fraud
B Discretionary accruals
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總結:I examine social capital’s impact on financial reports. Based on the social capital literature, I predict that the quality of the financial reports is higher when a firm is headquartered in a region with high social capital. Consistent with this prediction, I find that the firms that are headquartered in this type of region in the USA have a lower probability of committing fraud by misrepresenting financial information. Further, I find that the firms in regions with high social capital have lower levels of discretionary accruals and much more readable annual reports.
ISSN:1573-0697
Contains:Enthalten in: Journal of business ethics
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1007/s10551-017-3495-5