Journal of Business Finance & Accounting

Papers
(The median citation count of Journal of Business Finance & Accounting 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.)
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KPI information acquisition by analysts: Evidence from conference calls29
Economic demand for auditing services in the “registered” investment management industry29
The impact of bond market liberalization on accounting conservatism28
Interest rate liberalization and corporate innovation: Evidence from natural experiments in China26
Do politically connected subsidy recipients disclose less subsidy information?24
Does venture capital investment enhance corporate innovation? Evidence from Korea23
Real regulatory capital management and bank payouts: Evidence from available‐for‐sale securities23
The power of the business media: Evidence from firm‐level productivity22
The Founder certification effect, firm disclosures, and the cost of SEO financing21
The Nexus of Corporate Disclosure and Investors’ Information Needs: An Analysis Using Topic Modeling20
Social capital and capital allocation efficiency18
Do creditor control rights impact corporate tax aggressiveness? Evidence from debt covenant violations18
Boardroom backscratching and stock price crash risk17
Ex‐military CEOs and readability of financial reports17
Investment–cash flow sensitivity and investor protection17
Quarterly earnings thresholds: Making the case for prior quarter earnings17
Government affiliation, analyst behavior and the economic consequences16
Does product similarity of audit clients influence audit efficiency and pricing decisions?16
Production flexibility and trade credit under revenue uncertainty15
How does audit quality affect firm innovation? Evidence from China15
Influential Information Supply or Just a Modern Pillory? Investor Perceptions of the CEO Pay Ratio Disclosure Rule15
The dark side of strengthened minority voting power: An innovation perspective14
Acquisitions and social capital14
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The roles of XBRL and processed XBRL in 10‐K readability14
The effect of unionization on firms’ earnings management and employee compensation: Evidence from a regression discontinuity design13
Financial reporting quality and optimal capital structure13
Rollover Risk and Tax Avoidance13
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Institutional investors’ horizons and bank transparency13
The information spillover role of corporate spin‐offs in financing activities: Evidence from equity sales by private firms through Regulation D12
Corporate Resilience Against the COVID‐19 Crisis: How Valuable is an Islamic Label?12
Verifiable content in social media stock‐analysis articles: The long and short of it12
Information acquisition and tax avoidance: Evidence from a natural experiment11
Environment‐specific political risk mitigation: Political lobbying versus green innovation10
Shareholder election of CSR committee members and its effects on CSR performance10
Proxy contests and debt contracting behavior: The interplay of managerial, shareholder and creditor incentives10
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When does analyst reputation matter? Evidence from analysts’ reliance on management guidance9
Credit rating agencies, information asymmetry and US bond liquidity8
Bank risk in uncertain times: Do credit rationing and revenue diversification matter?8
Corruption and Default Risk: Global Evidence8
Internal governance and corporate social responsibility performance8
Gender diversity and acquisitions: How female directors add value in acquisition decisions8
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Regulating data: Evidence from corporate America8
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Are all types of real transaction management equal in the eyes of bank lenders?7
CEO mobility and corporate payouts7
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Internal control material weakness and CEO recruitment7
Corporate political activism, information transparency and IPO compliance costs7
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Transient institutional ownership, costly external finance and corporate cash holdings7
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Does International Financial Reporting Standards adoption improve or impede comparability? New evidence from Chinese dual‐class firms7
Compromise in hard times? The impact of deglobalization on corporate social responsibility in the US–China supply chain7
How do auditors respond to client firms’ technological peer pressure? Evidence from going‐concern opinions7
Are firms doing good also doing well?—The CSR advertising‐analogous effect7
Manipulation and obfuscation of financial reports7
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Mandatory Data Breach Disclosure and Insider Trading7
Debt capacity, cash holdings and financial constraints6
Language and innovation6
Intra‐industry spillover effects: Evidence from bankruptcy filings6
The impact of board reforms on audit fees: International evidence6
Press Freedom and Systemic Risk6
Age, gender, and risk‐taking: Evidence from the S&P 1500 executives and market‐based measures of firm risk6
CEO cultural heritage and the pricing of audit services6
Asymmetric trading responses to credit rating announcements from issuer‐ versus investor‐paid rating agencies6
Founder premiums, venture capital investments and acquirer benefits5
Accruals earnings management proxies: Prudent business decisions or earnings manipulation?5
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Does share pledging affect corporate philanthropy? Evidence from China5
Does the textual quality of prospectuses affect gross spread in seasoned equity offerings?5
Corporate investment and stock market valuation5
The impact of connections between the CEO and top executives on appointment, turnover and firm value5
Accounting conservatism and common ownership by dedicated institutional blockholders5
Regulatory Cooperation, Enforcement, and Accounting Restatements of US‐Listed Foreign Firms5
Environmental policy and audit pricing5
Brand equity and corporate debt structure5
Credit rating downgrade risk and acquisition decisions5
Enhanced disclosure of credit derivatives, information asymmetry and credit risk4
Through the eyes of the founder: CEO characteristics and firms’ regulatory filings4
Does audit regulation improve corporate decision making? Evidence from the disclosure of tax‐related key audit matters4
Local community's social capital and CEO pay duration4
Economic policy uncertainty and corporate divestitures4
Disagreement about the past: An empirical assessment of bank analysts' GAAP and non‐GAAP earnings measures4
CEO performance‐based grants’ vesting provisions and debt contracts: Evidence from GAAP, Non‐GAAP and KPI metrics4
Dividend payouts, cash‐flow uncertainty and the role of institutions4
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Top management team incentive dispersion and management earnings forecasts4
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Born to innovate? The birth‐order effect of CEOs on corporate innovation3
CEOs’ capital gains tax liabilities and accounting conservatism3
Venture capital and methods of payment in mergers and acquisitions3
State ownership and financial statement comparability3
Political connections, tacit power and corporate misconduct3
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The economic consequences of IPO sales growth management: Evidence from ChiNext‐listed companies in China3
Does it pay to treat employees well?: The case of informal finance3
Effects of appointing new independent directors who are professionally affiliated with their predecessors: Evidence from China3
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Investor relations under short‐selling pressure: Evidence from strategic signaling by company site visits3
Government transparency and firm‐level operational efficiency3
Threatened by wildfires: What do firms disclose in their 10‐Ks?3
Retail Investors’ Trades Around Comment Letter Disclosures3
Political corruption and accounting choices3
Corporate social responsibility reporting and investment: Evidence from mergers and acquisitions3
Do audit firms discount initial full‐year audit engagements with multiple potential successor auditors?3
Do Suppliers Care About Analyst Forecasts When Extending Trade Credit? A Quasi‐Natural Experiment3
Financial reporting uniformity: Its relation to comparability and its impact on financial statement users3
Do analysts’ gross margin forecasts influence manager's decisions to recognize inventory losses?3
Financial experts on the top management team: Do they reduce investment inefficiency?3
Share Pledging and Environmental Investment: Evidence From China3
Less timely earnings announcements and voluntary disclosure2
Private firms’ incentives and opportunities to manage earnings: Evidence from the use of inflation adjustments2
Speaking with one voice? Individual preferences and managers’ personal communication style2
Employee firing costs and accounting conservatism: Evidence from wrongful discharge laws2
The Financial Reporting Consequences of Last Chance Earnings Management2
Political contributions and the auditor–client relationship2
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Risk management committee and bank performance: Evidence from the adoption of the Dodd–Frank Act2
Out‐of‐sample predictability of firm‐specific stock price crashes: A machine learning approach2
The role of parent firms in business groups’ internal capital markets2
The beguiling behaviour of narcissistic CEOs: Evidence from repurchase announcements2
Financial statement comparability and accounting fraud2
Disentangling stock return synchronicity from the auditor's perspective2
The ability of employee disclosures to reveal private information2
Influence of Legal Environment and Banking System on Trade Credit in Private Firms2
Dual holdings and shareholder–creditor agency conflicts: Evidence from the syndicated loan market2
The signaling role of trade credit in bank lending decisions: Evidence from small and medium‐sized enterprises2
The effect of option listing on financing decisions2
Religiosity and corruption in bank lending2
Government awards to CEOs2
Director and officer liability and corporate tax avoidance2
Industry tournament incentives and corporate innovation2
Strategic entry deterrence in the audit industry: Evidence from the merger of professional accounting bodies2
Lead independent directors and accruals quality2
A clash of cultures: The governance and valuation effects of corporate cultural distance2
Information sharing between mutual funds and auditors2
Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery: Directors’ and CEOs’ prior bankruptcy experiences and the financial risk of their current firms2
The management of nonearnings measures: Evidence from initial public offering firms2
How uncertainty in industry policy affects corporate investment in China2
Generalist CEOs and conditional accounting conservatism1
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Product market competition and disclosure content differentiation: A topic modeling analysis1
The effect of affiliation with a large business group on trade credit finance: An empirical analysis of chaebol firms in Korea1
Managers’ staging of earnings conference calls around actual share repurchases1
Accounting for employee flows1
Distracted institutions, information asymmetry and stock price stability1
The attention of long‐term institutional investors and timely loss recognition1
Audit committee oversight and bank financial reporting quality1
The joint effects of litigation risk and regulation on non‐GAAP reporting1
Short‐Selling Threats and Corporate Tax Avoidance: Evidence From Regulation SHO1
Information or pressure? The effect of director experience on CEO CSR compensation adoption and design1
Shareholder voting on golden parachutes: Effective governance or too little too late?1
Accounting Reporting Complexity as a Source of Insider Information Advantage: Evidence From Insider Trades1
The consequences of earnings management for the acquisition premium in friendly takeovers1
Target firm's integrity culture and M&A performance1
Does corporate culture impact audit pricing? Evidence from textual analysis1
Whose opinion matters when insiders disagree with short sellers?1
Antecedents of and outcomes after finance committee use1
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Local CEOs, career concerns and voluntary disclosure1
Risk management and private debt contracts: The role of weather derivatives1
Regulation Fair Disclosure and the timeliness of long‐horizon management forecasts1
The agency costs of investment opportunities and debt contracting: Evidence from exogenous shocks to government spending1
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Management Forecasts and Reactions by Analysts and Investors: The Effect of CEO Gender1
Do Unexpected Earnings of Industry Leaders Affect the Discretionary Reporting Behavior of Followers? Evidence From China1
The impact of Confucianism on auditor judgment1
The real effects of M&As on targets’ peers1
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What's my style? Supply‐side determinants of debt covenant inclusion1
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Corporate tax behavior and political uncertainty: Evidence from national elections around the world1
Fair values and compensation contracting: Evidence from real estate firms1
Does a Customer Focus Influence Firms’ Climate‐Change Reporting Decisions? The Role of Market‐Driven Corporate Culture1
Analyst independence and earnings management1
Does good news cover bad news?1
The evolution of corporate twitter usage1
Does real earnings smoothing reduce investors’ perceived risk?1
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