Managerial Finance: Volume 46 Issue 2

Regulations and corporate financial and investment policy

Ashrafee Tanvir Hossain, Harjeet Bhabra

CFO appointment and debt-equity choice

Suchismita Mishra, Bakhtear Talukdar, Arun Upadhyay

There is some evidence that firms appoint internal candidates to exploit their unique firm specific knowledge and that the type of appointments may have signaling value to the…

Social media information and analyst forecasts

Abu Amin, Rajib Hasan, Mahfuja Malik

The purpose of this paper is to examine whether corporate social media information helps improve analysts’ forecast accuracy.

Share classes, families and asset purchases: Canadian evidence

Lingfeng Guo, Lawrence Kryzanowski, Yinlin Nie

The purpose of this paper is to test if relative asset purchase values (RAPVs) differ between single- and dual-class purchasers (not) differentiated by family ownership for…

Sarbanes-Oxley, agency conflicts and the marginal value of capital expenditure

Gurmeet S. Bhabra, Jacob Rooney

The purpose of this paper is to examine the relationship between the strength of corporate governance and the value of firm-level investment policies following the passage of the…

An overview of C-SOX and directions for future research

Harjeet S. Bhabra, Ashrafee Tanvir Hossain, Vidyoot Roy Karmakar

The purpose of this paper is to examine existing literature, including both academic and practitioner publications, related to Canadian SOX (or C-SOX as it is popularly known)…

Auditors’ quality, footnotes, and earnings persistence

Mohammad A. Karim, Sayan Sarkar

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the role of auditors in financial statement readability. Using a simple proxy for financial statement obfuscation (number of…

Considering production time in allocating costs and estimating profits at a Fortune 500 manufacturing corporation: A case study

Anne-Marie T. Lelkes, Thomas M. Krueger

Prior research has used computer-generated data to illustrate the benefits of the recently developed duration-based costing (DBC) and its affiliate modified duration-based costing…