Journal of Accounting and Public Policy

Papers
(The median citation count of Journal of Accounting and Public Policy is 1. 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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)
ArticleCitations
The usefulness of accrual-based surpluses in the Canadian public sector54
Vol. 41, #2 Bios46
Deferred outflows of resources and deferred inflows of resources and municipal bond borrowing cost35
Consequences of earnings management triggered by delisting regulation: Evidence in China35
Vol. 42, #1, Bios34
Vol. 41, #5, Bios33
Does it pay to pray? Religious nonprofits and funding32
Major government customers and stock price crash risk26
Does choice matter? The effect of filing method autonomy on taxpayer aggressiveness in a pre-filled tax return system25
Dancing in Shackles: Clawback and corporate innovation23
Firms’ discretion in the option exercise price adjustments during spinoffs23
Product advertising and financial analyst forecasts23
Are climate scenario analysis disclosures valued by investors?23
Using relevant headings in risk factor disclosures: What is the impact on information processing?22
Vol. 41, #6, Bios22
Regulatory risk and auditors’ reporting conservatism: Evidence from Chinese comment letters21
The impact of PCAOB international registration on audit quality and audit fees: Evidence from China21
Political grammars of justification and cost-benefit analysis in SEC rulemaking20
Financial information, spillovers, and innovation performance19
Environmental and university opportunity factors and CPA exam performance18
Auditors’ sensitivity to business risk under business risk auditing16
Options trading and corporate debt structure15
Editorial Board15
An evaluation of root cause analysis use by internal auditors15
Local peers and corporate reporting behavior14
Income shifting and U.S. international trade in goods statistics14
Financial reporting and corporate political connections: An analytical model of interactions13
Employee firing costs and auditors’ going-concern opinions: Evidence from wrongful discharge laws12
Clawback provisions and insider trading profits12
SEC Rule 14a-8 shareholder proposals: No-action requests, determinants, and the role of SEC staff12
Editorial Board12
WSJ reporting of price-to-earnings ratios and attention to earnings11
Editorial Board11
Shareholders’ tax incentives and changes in the organizational form of foreign operations11
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
Valuation implications of socially responsible tax avoidance: Evidence from the electricity industry11
Nigerian professional investors' sense-making of the impact of shareholder activism on corporate accountability11
Corporate site visits and earnings management10
Regulatory fragmentation and internal control weaknesses10
Earnings management by banks through loan loss provisioning during downturns9
Who participates in corporate income tax consolidation?: Evidence from Japan9
Cannabis financial statement audits in Canada before and after legalization: A “joint” analysis9
Audit fee lowballing: Determinants, recovery, and future audit quality9
Using machine learning to predict auditor switches: How the likelihood of switching affects audit quality among non-switching clients9
Does reporting quality affect systematic risk? Evidence from a regulatory lottery9
Managerial overconfidence and classification shifting8
Firm-level political risk and income smoothing8
A concave relation between equity-based incentives and misreporting8
Key audit matters as insights into auditors’ professional judgement: Evidence from the European Union8
“Surprise” material weakness disclosures: Effects on audit fees and audit report lags8
The effects of local newspaper closures on nonprofits’ executive compensation8
Use of comment letters for mergers and acquisitions in a setting with weak investor protection: The Chinese experience8
Do conventional financial disclosures matter in alternative financing? Evidence from equity crowdfunding8
Does company reputation matter for voluntary disclosure quality? evidence from management earnings forecasts8
The Journal of Accounting and Public Policy at 40: A bibliometric analysis7
Cross-border listed firms’ IFRS-based financial reports: Are they comparable?7
The effects of cross-border cooperation on disclosure enforcement, earnings attributes, and transparency7
Discretion in revenue recognition timing and comparability: Evidence from the implementation of SOP 97-27
Management of operating cash flows before and after the scandals in the early 2000s: An examination of meeting or beating analyst cash flow forecasts*7
The SEC revolving door and comment letters7
Parent firm dividend payouts and subsidiary earnings management: Evidence from mandatory dividend policy7
Does writing down goodwill imperil a CEO’s job?7
Excess insider control and corporate social responsibility: Evidence from dual-class firms7
Resilience and wellbeing in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic: The role of financial literacy7
The impact of joint provision of audit and tax services on the advice of tax professionals6
Short sellers and insider trading profitability: A natural experiment6
Editorial Board6
Editorial Board6
Narrative R&D disclosure and insider trading profitability: Evidence from China6
Transparency trade-offs in the operation of national Public Private Partnership units: The case of Ireland’s National Development Finance Agency6
Editorial Board6
Short-sale constraints and firm investment efficiency: Evidence from a natural experiment6
Auditor's professional judgment, audit efficiency and interplay between legal liability and regulatory oversight6
Do IPOs bear more severe legal consequences of accounting misstatements?6
Misstatement verifiability and managers’ earnings warning decisions5
Aggregate accounting research and development expenditures and the prediction of real gross domestic product5
IFRS 7 adoption and bank risk taking5
Gender diversity and financial statement fraud5
Initial evidence on the content and market implications of stablecoin reserve reporting5
Covid-19, corporate survival and public policy: The role of accounting information and regulation in the wake of a systemic crisis5
The impact of stock market liberalization on management forecast precision–Evidence from Mainland-Hong Kong Stock Connect Programs in China5
Changes in corporate cybersecurity risk disclosures after SEC comment letters5
Resisting institutionalized corruption: The case of public audit in Nigeria5
Editorial Board5
How does mandated sustainability disclosure about conflict minerals affect supply chain finance?5
Media attention and regulatory efficiency of corporate violations: Evidence from China5
Executive compensation horizon incentives, performance targets, and auditor risk assessment5
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
Information demand during the COVID-19 pandemic4
Are audit partners’ compensation and audit quality related to their consulting revenues?4
Editorial Board4
Voluntary versus mandatory disclosure of liability insurance coverage limit4
Financial reporting quality effects of imposing (gender) quotas on boards of directors4
Auditors’ hometown ties and audit quality4
Partner-Level internal control opinion shopping and its economic consequences: Evidence from “SOX 404” in an emerging market4
Support for pension reforms: What is the role of financial literacy and pension knowledge?4
Penal accountancy and the Spanish Inquisition4
Evaluating company adoptions of blockchain technology: How do management and auditor communications affect nonprofessional investor judgments?4
Editorial Board4
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
The effect of disclosure committees on non-GAAP reporting quality3
Labor skill and accounting conservatism3
Creditor enforcement and accounting quality: A natural experiment3
Employment quality and 10-K report readability3
The effects of disclosing critical audit matters and auditor tenure on nonprofessional investors’ judgments3
Vol. 42, #2, Bios.3
Do investors turn a blind eye to risk-factor disclosures by state-supported firms?3
Market reaction to quantitative and qualitative order backlog disclosures3
Do corporate taxes affect employee welfare? Evidence from workplace safety3
Managerial discretion and the comparability of fair value estimates3
Editorial for the special issue on auditing and public policy in China3
Press freedom and stock price crash risk3
Editorial Board3
Access to IT-Capable employees and the relevance of financial information3
Reputation and commercialism: Did accounting have a golden age? The US audit profession 1929–19903
Are more able managers good future tellers? Learning from Japan3
Management earnings forecast and financial statement complexity3
Economic consequences of expanding sales tax nexus: Evidence from stock price reactions to the Wayfair decision3
The influence of auditor narcissism and moral disengagement on risk assessments of a narcissistic client CFO3
The JOBS Act and IPO issuance rate3
Effective board monitoring over earnings reports and forecasts: Evidence from CFO outside director appointments3
Credit refinancing and corporate tax avoidance3
Vol. 40, #5 Biographies2
Code of ethics quality and audit fees2
The impact of financial reporting flexibility on auditor risk judgement: Evidence from the implementation of FIN 46R2
Political costs and corporate tax avoidance: Evidence from sin firms2
The impact of investment banks going public on underwriting behavior: Evidence from IPO clients’ earnings management2
Editorial Board2
The AOCI filter removal and bank lending in times of stress2
Tone management and stock price crash risk2
Firm-level political risk and earnings opacity2
The mandatory audit partner rotation policy and cost of debt2
GDP manipulation, political incentives, and earnings management2
How do investors perceive corporate general counsel? The role of monitoring and advising demand2
Incentive effects of tax transparency: Does country-by-country reporting call for arbitration?2
Could financial education be a universal social policy? A simulation of potential influences on inequality levels2
To tell or not to tell? Examining voluntary disclosure of customers’ identities under capital market pressure2
Vol. 40, #3 Biographies2
The spillover effect of focal firms’ cybersecurity breaches on rivals and the role of the CIO: Evidence from stock trading volume2
How do suppliers benefit from customers’ voluntary disclosure? the effect of customers’ earnings guidance on upstream firms’ investment efficiency2
Why bigger is not stronger? A perspective on auditor groups and audit quality2
Punishing in the public interest: Exploratory Canadian evidence pertaining to convictions and incarcerations for tax offences2
Can third-party online sales disclosure help reduce earnings management? Evidence from China2
Board generational cohorts, gender diversity and corporate environmental and social disclosures: Evidence from China2
Limits of private firms’ disclosure avoidance – Evidence from enforcing financial statements publication in Germany2
The impact of capping the SALT deduction on municipal bond pricing2
The smart money is in cash? Financial literacy and liquid savings among U.S. families2
Editorial for the special issue on accounting and personal finance in the Journal of Accounting and Public Policy2
Optimal internal control regulation: Standards, penalties, and leniency in enforcement2
Shifting from the incurred to the expected credit loss model and stock price crash risk2
An unintended consequence of raising public environmental awareness: Evidence from the release of the environmental documentary “Under the Dome” on earnings management1
Quality choices in corporate social responsibility reporting under heterogeneous investor preferences1
The effect of small audit firms’ failure to remediate the PCAOB’s quality control criticisms on audit market segmentation1
Birds of a feather flock together: Institutional investors with disciplinary history and financial reporting1
Economic policy uncertainty and analysts’ forecast characteristics1
Same information, different value: New evidence on the value of voluntary assurance1
Blockchain and other distributed ledger technologies: Where is the accounting?1
An examination of the influence of mutual CFO/audit firm tenure on audit quality1
Credit unions and earnings management to mitigate political scrutiny over tax-exempt status1
Attention to corporate disclosure and earnings Management: Evidence from downloads of SEC filings1
Client influence and auditor independence revisited: Evidence from auditor resignations1
Theoretical analysis of non-deductible expenses: Implications for the design of compensation contracts1
Too much of a good thing? Mandatory risk disclosure and corporate innovation1
Corporate social responsibility and classification shifting1
Skin in the game: Does outside directors’ equity-based compensation induce or mitigate stock price crash risk?1
The spillover effects of accounting scandals in business groups1
Gender difference in CFO communication: Evidence from earnings calls1
Political interventions in state-owned enterprises: The corporate governance failures of a European airline1
Bribes and audit fees1
Bank earnings management and performance reporting of comprehensive income1
Corporate sustainability reporting1
Homophily versus monitoring: Do all female board directors drive the gender assignment of audit partners?1
Government spending and CEO equity incentives: Evidence from changes in U.S. Senate committee chairs1
Financial reporting consequences of natural disasters: Evidence from the impact of resource constraints at audit offices on non-affected clients1
Institutional investor inattention and audit quality1
PCAOB international inspection access and debt contracting: Evidence from American Depositary Receipt firms1
Editorial Board1
Editorial Board1
Financial literacy and the timing of tax-preferred savings account withdrawals1
Crowding-out or Calling-out? The influence of mandatory industry-related firm-specific information disclosure on analyst reports1
Corporate governance and stock performance: The case of COVID-19 crisis1
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