Journal of Accounting and Public Policy

Papers
(The median citation count of Journal of Accounting and Public Policy is 2. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)
ArticleCitations
Vol. 41, #2 Bios62
Deferred outflows of resources and deferred inflows of resources and municipal bond borrowing cost47
Vol. 42, #1, Bios41
Vol. 41, #5, Bios36
Does it pay to pray? Religious nonprofits and funding34
Dancing in Shackles: Clawback and corporate innovation30
Firms’ discretion in the option exercise price adjustments during spinoffs28
Product advertising and financial analyst forecasts27
Are climate scenario analysis disclosures valued by investors?24
Earnings management upon a sovereign downgrade: International evidence24
Does choice matter? The effect of filing method autonomy on taxpayer aggressiveness in a pre-filled tax return system24
The usefulness of accrual-based surpluses in the Canadian public sector24
Major government customers and stock price crash risk23
Consequences of earnings management triggered by delisting regulation: Evidence in China23
Vol. 41, #6, Bios20
Environmental and university opportunity factors and CPA exam performance20
Using relevant headings in risk factor disclosures: What is the impact on information processing?20
Auditors’ sensitivity to business risk under business risk auditing17
Political grammars of justification and cost-benefit analysis in SEC rulemaking17
Financial information, spillovers, and innovation performance16
Regulatory risk and auditors’ reporting conservatism: Evidence from Chinese comment letters16
The impact of PCAOB international registration on audit quality and audit fees: Evidence from China16
Income shifting and U.S. international trade in goods statistics15
An evaluation of root cause analysis use by internal auditors14
Financial reporting and corporate political connections: An analytical model of interactions14
Options trading and corporate debt structure14
Public and private enforcement of non-GAAP reporting13
Local peers and corporate reporting behavior13
Editorial Board13
Shareholders’ tax incentives and changes in the organizational form of foreign operations13
Valuation implications of socially responsible tax avoidance: Evidence from the electricity industry12
Employee firing costs and auditors’ going-concern opinions: Evidence from wrongful discharge laws12
WSJ reporting of price-to-earnings ratios and attention to earnings12
The influence of team consensus and inclusive climate on junior auditors’ conformity and risk assessment sharing11
Chief Human Resource Officers and accounting disclosures: Illuminating the firm’s most important asset or window dressing?11
Did PCAOB rules on ethics, independence, and tax services influence financial reporting for income taxes?11
SEC Rule 14a-8 shareholder proposals: No-action requests, determinants, and the role of SEC staff11
Clawback provisions and insider trading profits11
Editorial Board10
Disclosure policy for relative performance indicators under product market competition10
Using machine learning to predict auditor switches: How the likelihood of switching affects audit quality among non-switching clients10
Cannabis financial statement audits in Canada before and after legalization: A “joint” analysis10
Regulatory fragmentation and internal control weaknesses10
Nigerian professional investors' sense-making of the impact of shareholder activism on corporate accountability10
Firm-level political risk and income smoothing9
Who participates in corporate income tax consolidation?: Evidence from Japan9
Does company reputation matter for voluntary disclosure quality? evidence from management earnings forecasts9
The effects of local newspaper closures on nonprofits’ executive compensation9
Management of operating cash flows before and after the scandals in the early 2000s: An examination of meeting or beating analyst cash flow forecasts*9
Key audit matters as insights into auditors’ professional judgement: Evidence from the European Union9
A concave relation between equity-based incentives and misreporting9
Does writing down goodwill imperil a CEO’s job?9
“Surprise” material weakness disclosures: Effects on audit fees and audit report lags8
The Journal of Accounting and Public Policy at 40: A bibliometric analysis8
Does reporting quality affect systematic risk? Evidence from a regulatory lottery8
Earnings management by banks through loan loss provisioning during downturns8
Does the tax deductibility of interest affect financial reporting?8
Use of comment letters for mergers and acquisitions in a setting with weak investor protection: The Chinese experience8
Cross-border listed firms’ IFRS-based financial reports: Are they comparable?8
Managerial overconfidence and classification shifting8
Determinants and market consequences of audit partner changes after restatements7
Parent firm dividend payouts and subsidiary earnings management: Evidence from mandatory dividend policy7
Transparency trade-offs in the operation of national Public Private Partnership units: The case of Ireland’s National Development Finance Agency7
Resilience and wellbeing in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic: The role of financial literacy7
Excess insider control and corporate social responsibility: Evidence from dual-class firms7
How does auditor planning materiality affect audit pricing of fair values and external valuation?7
Do IPOs bear more severe legal consequences of accounting misstatements?7
The SEC revolving door and comment letters7
Discretion in revenue recognition timing and comparability: Evidence from the implementation of SOP 97-27
Editorial Board7
Covid-19, corporate survival and public policy: The role of accounting information and regulation in the wake of a systemic crisis6
The impact of stock market liberalization on management forecast precision–Evidence from Mainland-Hong Kong Stock Connect Programs in China6
How does mandated sustainability disclosure about conflict minerals affect supply chain finance?6
Short-sale constraints and firm investment efficiency: Evidence from a natural experiment6
Short sellers and insider trading profitability: A natural experiment6
Editorial Board6
IFRS 7 adoption and bank risk taking6
The impact of joint provision of audit and tax services on the advice of tax professionals6
Editorial Board6
Auditor's professional judgment, audit efficiency and interplay between legal liability and regulatory oversight6
Aggregate accounting research and development expenditures and the prediction of real gross domestic product6
Narrative R&D disclosure and insider trading profitability: Evidence from China6
Editorial Board6
Misstatement verifiability and managers’ earnings warning decisions5
Penal accountancy and the Spanish Inquisition5
Gender diversity and financial statement fraud5
Resisting institutionalized corruption: The case of public audit in Nigeria5
Initial evidence on the content and market implications of stablecoin reserve reporting5
Media attention and regulatory efficiency of corporate violations: Evidence from China5
Executive compensation horizon incentives, performance targets, and auditor risk assessment5
Changes in corporate cybersecurity risk disclosures after SEC comment letters5
Evaluating company adoptions of blockchain technology: How do management and auditor communications affect nonprofessional investor judgments?5
Window dressing on bank problem loans: Evidence from natural disaster responses4
Loss aversion and financial reporting: A possible explanation for the prevalence of discontinuities in reported earnings4
Editorial Board4
Access to IT-Capable employees and the relevance of financial information4
Support for pension reforms: What is the role of financial literacy and pension knowledge?4
Are audit partners’ compensation and audit quality related to their consulting revenues?4
Editorial Board4
Evidence from the adoption of IFRS 9 and the impact of COVID-19 on lending and regulatory capital on Spanish Banks4
Do public disclosures of investments in tax planning attract monitoring by tax authorities?4
Credit refinancing and corporate tax avoidance4
The JOBS Act and IPO issuance rate4
Do investors turn a blind eye to risk-factor disclosures by state-supported firms?4
Editorial for the special issue on auditing and public policy in China4
Partner-Level internal control opinion shopping and its economic consequences: Evidence from “SOX 404” in an emerging market4
Editorial Board4
Press freedom and stock price crash risk4
Voluntary versus mandatory disclosure of liability insurance coverage limit4
Information demand during the COVID-19 pandemic4
Vol. 42, #2, Bios.4
Effective board monitoring over earnings reports and forecasts: Evidence from CFO outside director appointments4
Creditor enforcement and accounting quality: A natural experiment4
The effects of disclosing critical audit matters and auditor tenure on nonprofessional investors’ judgments4
Financial reporting quality effects of imposing (gender) quotas on boards of directors4
Auditors’ hometown ties and audit quality4
Economic consequences of expanding sales tax nexus: Evidence from stock price reactions to the Wayfair decision3
Market reaction to quantitative and qualitative order backlog disclosures3
Reputation and commercialism: Did accounting have a golden age? The US audit profession 1929–19903
Vol. 40, #5 Biographies3
The mandatory audit partner rotation policy and cost of debt3
GDP manipulation, political incentives, and earnings management3
Managerial discretion and the comparability of fair value estimates3
Employment quality and 10-K report readability3
Labor skill and accounting conservatism3
Punishing in the public interest: Exploratory Canadian evidence pertaining to convictions and incarcerations for tax offences3
Incentive effects of tax transparency: Does country-by-country reporting call for arbitration?3
The effect of disclosure committees on non-GAAP reporting quality3
Do corporate taxes affect employee welfare? Evidence from workplace safety3
Management earnings forecast and financial statement complexity3
Can third-party online sales disclosure help reduce earnings management? Evidence from China3
Why bigger is not stronger? A perspective on auditor groups and audit quality3
Interim restatements and the audit engagement3
The spillover effect of focal firms’ cybersecurity breaches on rivals and the role of the CIO: Evidence from stock trading volume2
Too much of a good thing? Mandatory risk disclosure and corporate innovation2
Editorial for the special issue on accounting and personal finance in the Journal of Accounting and Public Policy2
How do investors perceive corporate general counsel? The role of monitoring and advising demand2
Code of ethics quality and audit fees2
Tone management and stock price crash risk2
Limits of private firms’ disclosure avoidance – Evidence from enforcing financial statements publication in Germany2
Homophily versus monitoring: Do all female board directors drive the gender assignment of audit partners?2
Corporate social responsibility and classification shifting2
Corporate sustainability reporting2
The impact of investment banks going public on underwriting behavior: Evidence from IPO clients’ earnings management2
To tell or not to tell? Examining voluntary disclosure of customers’ identities under capital market pressure2
The impact of financial reporting flexibility on auditor risk judgement: Evidence from the implementation of FIN 46R2
Editorial Board2
Political costs and corporate tax avoidance: Evidence from sin firms2
The smart money is in cash? Financial literacy and liquid savings among U.S. families2
Bridging the gap: A study of government suppliers' reporting practices2
Birds of a feather flock together: Institutional investors with disciplinary history and financial reporting2
The AOCI filter removal and bank lending in times of stress2
PCAOB international inspection access and debt contracting: Evidence from American Depositary Receipt firms2
Could financial education be a universal social policy? A simulation of potential influences on inequality levels2
Editorial Board2
Shifting from the incurred to the expected credit loss model and stock price crash risk2
Board generational cohorts, gender diversity and corporate environmental and social disclosures: Evidence from China2
How do suppliers benefit from customers’ voluntary disclosure? the effect of customers’ earnings guidance on upstream firms’ investment efficiency2
Firm-level political risk and earnings opacity2
The impact of capping the SALT deduction on municipal bond pricing2
Client influence and auditor independence revisited: Evidence from auditor resignations2
Quality choices in corporate social responsibility reporting under heterogeneous investor preferences2
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