Contemporary Accounting Research

Papers
(The TQCC of Contemporary Accounting Research is 10. 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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)
ArticleCitations
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Political incentives and analyst bias: Evidence from China142
Reporting misstatements as revisions: An evaluation of managers' use of materiality discretion105
The Effect of SEC Reviewers on Comment Letters*104
Manager narcissism, target difficulty, and employee dysfunctional behavior86
Climatic disasters and distracted analysts65
Managerial performance evaluation and organizational form49
Peer effects in subjective performance evaluation47
Disclosure to competitors in light of endogenous firm investments46
Is There a Brain Drain in Auditing? The Determinants and Consequences of Auditors Leaving Public Accounting*45
The Impact of Managerial Discretion in Revenue Recognition: A Reexamination*43
The Relevance of Non‐Income Tax Relief*42
Aggregate tone and gross domestic product42
Promoting proactive auditing behaviors41
The Effect of Reporting Opacity on Trading Opacity: New Evidence from American Depositary Receipt Trades in Dark Pools*40
Relative Performance Evaluation and Earnings Management*40
Reporting bias and feedback effect38
Examining the Effects of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act on Executive Compensation*35
The effect of securities litigation risk on firm value and disclosure32
Overloaded and overwhelmed: Weakened partner aspirations of women public accountants during the COVID‐19 pandemic32
Behavioral Economics of Accounting: A Review of Archival Research on Individual Decision Makers*31
FinBERT: A Large Language Model for Extracting Information from Financial Text*31
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Analysts' Book Value Forecasts: Initial Evidence from the Perspective of Real‐Options‐Based Valuation*29
Accounting as a Normalizing Tool for Transitional Dirtiness: The Case of theUS Adult‐UseCannabis Industry*29
Institutional dual holdings and expected crash risk: Evidence from mergers between lenders and equity holders29
Evidence‐Informed Audit Standard Setting: Exploring Evidence Use and Knowledge Transfer*27
Investor overreactions to transnational peer firm earnings: The role of accounting standards27
Stock market liberalization and earnings management: Evidence from a quasi‐natural experiment in China26
What Determines Effective Tax Rates? The Relative Influence of Tax and Other Factors*†26
Trust, distrust, and open‐book accounting in three client‐vendor relationships25
“No comment”: Language frictions and the IASB's due process25
Do Foreign Component Auditors Harm Financial Reporting Quality? A Subsidiary‐Level Analysis of Foreign Component Auditor Use*24
Determinants and Consequences of the Severity of Executive Compensation Clawbacks*23
Business unit controllers' credibility and the hardening of local forecasts22
Information Transparency and Investment in Follow‐on Innovation*22
The predictive ability of tax contingencies for future income tax cash outflows21
Individual or team analyst reports? The organization of analyst research activities21
Machine learning and the prediction of changes in profitability21
Federal judge ideology and the going‐concern reporting incentives of Big 4 and non–Big 4 auditors21
Can Auditors Improve Their Judgment by Drawing on the Crowd Within?†20
Do Hedge Funds Undertake Activism in the Bond Market? Evidence from Bondholders' Responses to Delay in Financial Reporting*20
CAR Ad Hoc Reviewers 2024 / RCC Réviseurs ad hoc 202420
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Group Recruiting Events and Gender Stereotypes in Employee Selection*19
How do hedge fund activists use and affect financial reporting of income taxes? Evidence from the valuation allowance for deferred tax assets19
Does Susceptibility to the Numerosity Heuristic Impact Juror Assessments of Auditors' Liability?*19
Does tax enforcement inform auditors' risk assessment? Evidence from key audit matters19
Issue Information19
Technological peer pressure and skill specificity of job postings19
Government subsidies and income smoothing19
Risk‐Taking Incentives and Earnings Management: New Evidence*19
Entrepreneurial Ecosystems as Amplifiers of the Lean Startup Philosophy: Management Control Practices in Earliest‐Stage Startups*18
Contemporary Accounting Research: A Retrospective between 1984 and 2021 using Bibliometric Analysis*18
How do lead auditor instructions influence component auditors' evidence collection decisions? The joint influence of construal interpretations and responsibility18
The Effect of Discontinuous and Unpredictable Environmental Change on Management Accounting During Organizational Crisis: A Field Study*18
The Big 4 Under Pressure: Scanning Work in Transnational Fields*17
Asymmetric Inefficiency in the Market Response to Non‐earnings 8‐K Information*17
Fraud Firms' Non‐Implicated CFOs: An Investigation of Reputational Contagion and Subsequent Employment Outcomes*17
Prospective evaluation of a new audit standard: Expert rhetoric and flexibility in cost‐benefit analysis16
Explaining the Unintended Consequences of Management Control Systems: Managerial Cognitions and Inertia in the Case of Nokia Mobile Phones*16
Is R&D Really That Special? A Fixed‐Cost Explanation for the Empirical Patterns of R&D Firms16
Issue Information16
Endogeneity and the economic consequences of tax avoidance15
The moderating role of reporting quality15
Motivated Perspective Taking: Why Prompting Auditors to Take an Investor's Perspective Makes Them Treat Identified Audit Differences as Less Material*14
Industry Sensitivity to External Forces and the Information Advantage of Analysts over Managers*14
Shareholder perceptions of external tax advisors in corporate tax planning13
Immaterial Error Corrections and Financial Reporting Reliability*13
To read or to listen? Does disclosure delivery mode impact investors' reactions to managers' tone language?13
Toward a general equilibrium theory of financial reporting13
The importance of audit partners' risk tolerance to audit quality13
Unraveling Financial Fraud: The Role of the Board of Directors and External Advisors in Conducting Independent Internal Investigations*13
Does audit partner individualism reduce client earnings comparability? Evidence from the United States13
Enterprise system implementation and cash flow volatility12
Can Financialization Save Nature? The Case of Endangered Species*12
Do brokers manage the distribution of stock recommendations?12
Does Restricting Managers' Discretion through GAAP Impact the Usefulness of Accounting Information in Debt Contracting?†12
Auditor‐client reciprocity: Evidence from forecast‐issuing brokerage houses and forecasted companies sharing the same auditor12
Navigating global uncertainty: Do foreign national directors protect US firms from supply chain disruptions?12
Issue Information12
Foreign labor and audit quality: Evidence from newly hired H‐1B visa holders12
Tax Haven Incorporation and the Cost of Capital*12
The effects of overwithholding and retroactive savings options on retirement savings: An experimental analysis12
Geographic Peer Effects in Management Earnings Forecasts*12
Do Sell‐Side Analysts Play a Role in Hedge Fund Activism? Evidence from Textual Analysis*11
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Organized Labor Effects on SG&A Cost Behavior*11
Dissecting corporate tournaments: Multilayered structures and firm performance11
Deferred compensation, managerial retirement, and the stewardship perspective of financial accounting11
Right on target: Is public disclosure of non‐GAAP earnings associated with M&A efficiency?11
Governmentality, counter‐conduct, and modes of governing: Accounting and the pursuit of municipal sustainable waste management11
Volatility of Tax Payments and Dividend Payouts*11
Segment disaggregation and equity‐based pay contracts11
Discretionary dissemination on Twitter10
CEO career concerns in early tenure and corporate social responsibility reporting10
The supply of information and price formation: Evidence from Google's search engine10
The real effects of transparency in crowdfunding10
Remembering Fraud in the Future: Investigating and Improving Auditors' Attention to Fraud during Audit Testing*10
Equity incentives and conforming tax avoidance10
Control issues: How providing input affects auditors' reliance on artificial intelligence10
Issue Information10
Auditor judgment in the fourth industrial revolution10
Selective Disclosure, Expertise Acquisition, and Price Informativeness*10
How Changes in Expectations of Earnings Affect the Associations of Earnings Overstatements and Audit Effort with Audit Risk and Market Price*10
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