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Publication date: 1 March 2010

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Journal of Public Budgeting, Accounting & Financial Management, vol. 22 no. 4
Type: Research Article
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1108/JPBAFM-22-04-2010-B006
ISSN: 1096-3367

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Publication date: 1 March 2010

Are local governments adopting optimistic actuarial methods and assumptions for defined benefit pension plans?

Thomas E. Vermeer, Alan K. Styles and Terry K. Patton

Recent news articles about pension funding issues highlight the importance of transparent financial reporting and disclosures for defined benefit pension plans. Using…

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Recent news articles about pension funding issues highlight the importance of transparent financial reporting and disclosures for defined benefit pension plans. Using pension-related data for local governments in Michigan and Pennsylvania, we provide descriptive evidence regarding the actuarial methods and assumptions adopted and the factors that explain a government’s propensity to adopt optimistic actuarial methods and assumptions that reduce the annual required contribution. Our descriptive data suggests that actuaries are making aggressive assumptions for some governments' pension benefits. Our regression results also suggest there is an association between monitoring mechanisms, fiscal constraints, and socioeconomic factors and the choice of optimistic actuarial methods and assumptions that reduce the annual required contribution. The GASB should consider our findings as they determine whether existing standards should be clarified or whether allowable actuarial methods and assumptions should be restricted.

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Journal of Public Budgeting, Accounting & Financial Management, vol. 22 no. 4
Type: Research Article
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1108/JPBAFM-22-04-2010-B003
ISSN: 1096-3367

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Publication date: 1 March 2013

Going-concern modified audit opinions for non-profit organizations

Thomas E. Vermeer, K. Raghunandan and Dana A. Forgione

Non-profit organizations constitute an important share of the U.S. economy, and recent audit failures and GAO findings highlight the importance of auditor reporting…

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Non-profit organizations constitute an important share of the U.S. economy, and recent audit failures and GAO findings highlight the importance of auditor reporting decisions in this sector. In this study, we examine going-concern modified audit opinions for non-profit organizations. Using audit opinion data for 3,567 non-profits exhibiting some signs of financial stress, we find that non-profits are more likely to receive a goingconcern modified opinion if they are smaller, are in worse financial condition, expend less on program-related activities, and have more internal control related audit findings. Our analysis of the subsequent resolution of the going-concern uncertainties suggest that only 27 percent of the non-profits receiving an initial going-concern modified audit opinion filed for dissolution in the subsequent four fiscal years. Our findings fill a gap in an important area that has received little research attention, and provide a useful benchmark for non-profits and their auditors.

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Journal of Public Budgeting, Accounting & Financial Management, vol. 25 no. 1
Type: Research Article
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1108/JPBAFM-25-01-2013-B006
ISSN: 1096-3367

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Publication date: 1 March 2009

The diligence of audit committees in the healthcare sector

Thomas E. Vermeer, K. Raghunandan and Dana A. Forgione

Problems with governance at non-profit (NP) healthcare organizations have recently led to legislative scrutiny of their audit committee practices. Using data from a survey…

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Problems with governance at non-profit (NP) healthcare organizations have recently led to legislative scrutiny of their audit committee practices. Using data from a survey of chief financial officers of NP healthcare organizations and from the GuideStar database, we examine audit committee interactions with external auditors for a sample of 69 NP healthcare organizations. We find that 71% of the audit committees in our sample meet privately with the external auditor and the mean number of such meetings 1.9. Our results also suggest that audit committee interaction with the external auditor varies in response to resource dependencies, existence of debt, audit quality, audit tenure, and organizational size. These findings suggest that NP healthcare organizations respond to monitoring demands by adopting suitable audit committee related interactions.

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Journal of Public Budgeting, Accounting & Financial Management, vol. 21 no. 1
Type: Research Article
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1108/JPBAFM-21-01-2009-B001
ISSN: 1096-3367

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Publication date: 1 March 2008

Symposium on accounting and auditing issues in the government and non-profit sectors: part ii

Thomas E. Vermeer

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Journal of Public Budgeting, Accounting & Financial Management, vol. 20 no. 3
Type: Research Article
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1108/JPBAFM-20-03-2008-B003
ISSN: 1096-3367

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Publication date: 1 March 2008

Symposium introduction

Thomas E. Vermeer

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Journal of Public Budgeting, Accounting & Financial Management, vol. 20 no. 2
Type: Research Article
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1108/JPBAFM-20-02-2008-B004
ISSN: 1096-3367

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Publication date: 29 August 2017

A Citation Analysis and Review of Research Issues and Methodologies in Advances in Accounting Education: Teaching and Curriculum Innovations

Elsie C. Ameen and Daryl M. Guffey

This chapter includes a citation analysis of the first 16 volumes of Advances in Accounting Education: Teaching and Curriculum Innovations (henceforth, Advances in…

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This chapter includes a citation analysis of the first 16 volumes of Advances in Accounting Education: Teaching and Curriculum Innovations (henceforth, Advances in Accounting Education). Using this analysis, we identified the top 20 articles of the 195 articles published. This analysis provides an understanding of the relative contribution and impact of the papers published in Advances in Accounting Education, and the information provides past authors with a measure of how their contributions compare with the contributions of other authors. Also, this analysis may be valuable for potential contributors who are developing a research topic in that it will enable them to identify the types of articles that have traditionally had the greatest impact.

We also identify the top 30 authors of the 383 who have published in the journal. This analysis not only gives feedback to the authors listed, but also helps accounting education researchers identify authors whose work may be relevant to their interests.

We report the research categories (issues) and methodologies used for all articles published from 1998 to 2015 in Advances in Accounting Education. We also compare the research issues and research methodologies used in Advances in Accounting Education to those in the Journal of Accounting Education and Issues in Accounting Education for the period 2006–2015. Authors considering submitting a manuscript to one of these journals can use this information to determine which journal might be the best fit for their work.

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Advances in Accounting Education: Teaching and Curriculum Innovations
Type: Book
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1108/S1085-462220170000021002
ISBN: 978-1-78743-343-4

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  • Citation analysis
  • accounting education
  • Google Scholar citations

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Publication date: 27 June 2008

A new approach to improving and evaluating student workplace writing skills

Susan A. Lynn and Thomas E. Vermeer

Over the last twenty years, many studies have examined the impact of structured writing programs on improving accounting students’ writing skills. In this chapter, we…

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Over the last twenty years, many studies have examined the impact of structured writing programs on improving accounting students’ writing skills. In this chapter, we extend this research by using writing assignments that are representative of the workplace writing experiences that students encounter in their professional careers, by developing an evaluation instrument to assess the effectiveness of structured writing programs, and by using business advisory board members to evaluate improvement in students’ writing. Our results suggest that our new approach to designing writing assignments representative of workplace writing helps students improve their writing skills. Our business advisory board members’ ratings indicate that the overall quality of the students’ writing improved over two semesters of completing a series of workplace writing assignments. Specifically, our structured writing program improved students’ business writing skills in the areas of organization (paragraph unity, layout, and conclusion) and style and tone (conciseness and word choice). Students also improved in their ability to explain technical aspects of accounting work and in certain aspects of spelling, punctuation, and grammar. The results and tools provided in this study should assist other programs in either implementing or improving a structured writing program.

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Advances in Accounting Education
Type: Book
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/S1085-4622(08)09006-8
ISBN: 978-1-84950-519-2

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Publication date: 12 July 2013

Audit firm rotation and audit quality: evidence from academic research

David S. Jenkins and Thomas E. Vermeer

The purpose of this paper is to provide a succinct overview of academic research that has examined audit firm rotation both in the USA and in other countries.

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Purpose

The purpose of this paper is to provide a succinct overview of academic research that has examined audit firm rotation both in the USA and in other countries.

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The authors outline the unresolved nature of academic research on audit firm rotation, review recent literature, discuss why academics have been unable to resolve this issue and offer suggestions for improving subsequent research in the area.

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Overall, the collective evidence is inconclusive at best; with earlier studies generally finding mixed results and more recent studies indicating that audit quality generally goes through two distinct phases during the auditor‐client relationship, the “auditor learning” and “auditor closeness” phases.

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Given the importance of the issue, this article provides an overview of academic research that has examined audit firm rotation, discusses why academics have been unable to resolve this issue, and provides suggestions on how academics and practitioners can work together to enhance the quality of future research.

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Accounting Research Journal, vol. 26 no. 1
Type: Research Article
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1108/ARJ-11-2012-0087
ISSN: 1030-9616

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  • Accounting research
  • Auditing
  • Auditor tenure
  • Auditor‐client relationship
  • Mandatory auditor rotation

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Publication date: 1 March 2013

City responses to economic downturns 2003 to 2009: Statistical and textual analyses of comprehensive annual financial reports

John F. Sacco and Gerard R. Busheé

This paper analyzes the impact of economic downturns on the revenue and expense sides of city financing for the period 2003 to 2009 using a convenience sample of the…

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This paper analyzes the impact of economic downturns on the revenue and expense sides of city financing for the period 2003 to 2009 using a convenience sample of the audited end of year financial reports for thirty midsized US cities. The analysis focuses on whether and how quickly and how extensively revenue and spending directions from past years are altered by recessions. A seven year series of Comprehensive Annual Financial Report (CAFR) data serves to explore whether citiesʼ revenues and spending, especially the traditional property tax and core functions such as public safety and infrastructure withstood the brief 2001 and the persistent 2007 recessions? The findings point to consumption (spending) over stability (revenue minus expense) for the recession of 2007, particularly in 2008 and 2009.

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Journal of Public Budgeting, Accounting & Financial Management, vol. 25 no. 3
Type: Research Article
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1108/JPBAFM-25-03-2013-B003
ISSN: 1096-3367

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