Journal of Accounting and Public Policy

Papers
(The median citation count of Journal of Accounting and Public Policy is 2. 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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)
ArticleCitations
Vol. 41, #5, Bios39
Vol. 42, #1, Bios37
Going-concern CAM disclosures: An intermediate-level warning for financial distress36
Product advertising and financial analyst forecasts36
Earnings management upon a sovereign downgrade: International evidence34
Firms’ discretion in the option exercise price adjustments during spinoffs32
Does choice matter? The effect of filing method autonomy on taxpayer aggressiveness in a pre-filled tax return system28
Are climate scenario analysis disclosures valued by investors?25
The usefulness of accrual-based surpluses in the Canadian public sector25
Consequences of earnings management triggered by delisting regulation: Evidence in China23
Accounting-employee flows and financial reporting quality23
Environmental and university opportunity factors and CPA exam performance22
Exploring corporate geopolitical risk exposure — a heterogeneous geographic segment perspective21
Auditors’ sensitivity to business risk under business risk auditing20
Vol. 41, #6, Bios20
Earnings management with cash flow hedge accounting19
Regulatory risk and auditors’ reporting conservatism: Evidence from Chinese comment letters18
Financial information, spillovers, and innovation performance17
Political grammars of justification and cost-benefit analysis in SEC rulemaking17
Comparability over time: XBRL tag changes and analyst forecast behavior16
Using relevant headings in risk factor disclosures: What is the impact on information processing?16
Public country-by-country reporting and corporate social responsibility: an analysis of European multinational banks16
Public and private enforcement of non-GAAP reporting15
Options trading and corporate debt structure15
Local peers and corporate reporting behavior15
An evaluation of root cause analysis use by internal auditors15
A study of anti-hedge policies: determinants and consequences15
WSJ reporting of price-to-earnings ratios and attention to earnings14
SEC Rule 14a-8 shareholder proposals: No-action requests, determinants, and the role of SEC staff13
Employee firing costs and auditors’ going-concern opinions: Evidence from wrongful discharge laws13
Shareholders’ tax incentives and changes in the organizational form of foreign operations13
The influence of team consensus and inclusive climate on junior auditors’ conformity and risk assessment sharing12
Editorial for the special issue on professional judgment in accounting and auditing decisions12
The shadows of politicians with prior CEO experience: Evidence from corporate investment efficiency in China12
Disclosure policy for relative performance indicators under product market competition11
Is risk disclosure in banks’ pillar 3 reporting informative? Analyzing tone consistency with annual reports11
Chief Human Resource Officers and accounting disclosures: Illuminating the firm’s most important asset or window dressing?11
Clawback provisions and insider trading profits11
Editorial Board11
Nigerian professional investors' sense-making of the impact of shareholder activism on corporate accountability10
Does writing down goodwill imperil a CEO’s job?10
Regulatory fragmentation and internal control weaknesses10
Firm-level political risk and income smoothing10
Empirical implications of a one-size-fits-all deleveraging policy from the perspective of operating cash flow quality10
The Journal of Accounting and Public Policy at 40: A bibliometric analysis10
Does reporting quality affect systematic risk? Evidence from a regulatory lottery9
Cannabis financial statement audits in Canada before and after legalization: A “joint” analysis9
Who participates in corporate income tax consolidation?: Evidence from Japan9
Management of operating cash flows before and after the scandals in the early 2000s: An examination of meeting or beating analyst cash flow forecasts*9
A concave relation between equity-based incentives and misreporting8
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
Determinants and market consequences of audit partner changes after restatements8
Managerial overconfidence and classification shifting8
Management participation during university audit committee meetings and internal control disclosures: evidence from audit committee minutes8
Key audit matters as insights into auditors’ professional judgement: Evidence from the European Union8
Earnings management by banks through loan loss provisioning during downturns8
Audit materiality judgments during the COVID-19 pandemic: Evidence from the United Kingdom8
Does company reputation matter for voluntary disclosure quality? evidence from management earnings forecasts8
“Surprise” material weakness disclosures: Effects on audit fees and audit report lags8
Discretion in revenue recognition timing and comparability: Evidence from the implementation of SOP 97-27
How does auditor planning materiality affect audit pricing of fair values and external valuation?7
Resilience and wellbeing in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic: The role of financial literacy7
Does the tax deductibility of interest affect financial reporting?7
Parent firm dividend payouts and subsidiary earnings management: Evidence from mandatory dividend policy7
The SEC revolving door and comment letters7
Do regulators’ random inspections have “teeth”? Evidence from the valuation of corporate cash holdings7
Transparency trade-offs in the operation of national Public Private Partnership units: The case of Ireland’s National Development Finance Agency7
Cross-border listed firms’ IFRS-based financial reports: Are they comparable?7
Balancing growth and security: Exploring the impact of growth opportunities on cybersecurity breaches6
Director media experience, news coverage, and analyst information processing6
Auditor's professional judgment, audit efficiency and interplay between legal liability and regulatory oversight6
The power and peril of nudging non-compliant firms: A field experiment on tax compliance6
Executive compensation horizon incentives, performance targets, and auditor risk assessment6
Media competition and earnings management: evidence from China’s county newspaper conglomeration reform6
Editorial Board6
IFRS 7 adoption and bank risk taking6
Misstatement verifiability and managers’ earnings warning decisions6
Short-sale constraints and firm investment efficiency: Evidence from a natural experiment6
The impact of joint provision of audit and tax services on the advice of tax professionals6
Editorial Board6
The impact of stock market liberalization on management forecast precision–Evidence from Mainland-Hong Kong Stock Connect Programs in China6
Narrative R&D disclosure and insider trading profitability: Evidence from China6
How does mandated sustainability disclosure about conflict minerals affect supply chain finance?6
Penal accountancy and the Spanish Inquisition5
Changes in corporate cybersecurity risk disclosures after SEC comment letters5
Do public disclosures of investments in tax planning attract monitoring by tax authorities?5
Editorial Board5
CEO inside debt and corporate political disclosure5
Synergizing machine and human judgment: evidence from going concern assessment5
Resisting institutionalized corruption: The case of public audit in Nigeria5
Disclosure strategies for management earnings forecasts: insights from the corporate life-cycle perspective5
Evidence from the adoption of IFRS 9 and the impact of COVID-19 on lending and regulatory capital on Spanish Banks5
Voluntary versus mandatory disclosure of liability insurance coverage limit5
Press freedom and stock price crash risk5
Editorial Board5
Initial evidence on the content and market implications of stablecoin reserve reporting5
Climate risk and long-lived tangible asset impairments5
Auditors’ hometown ties and audit quality5
Labor market-based information transfer5
Partner-Level internal control opinion shopping and its economic consequences: Evidence from “SOX 404” in an emerging market5
Stakeholder perceptions of tax transparency: evidence from GRI 2075
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
Editorial Board4
Do corporate taxes affect employee welfare? Evidence from workplace safety4
Management earnings forecast and financial statement complexity4
Employment quality and 10-K report readability4
Credit refinancing and corporate tax avoidance4
Tax regulations and corporate social responsibility: Evidence from the adoption of addback statutes4
Vol. 42, #2, Bios.4
Effective board monitoring over earnings reports and forecasts: Evidence from CFO outside director appointments4
Creditor enforcement and accounting quality: A natural experiment4
Economic consequences of expanding sales tax nexus: Evidence from stock price reactions to the Wayfair decision4
Editorial for the special issue on auditing and public policy in China4
Access to IT-Capable employees and the relevance of financial information4
Support for pension reforms: What is the role of financial literacy and pension knowledge?4
The JOBS Act and IPO issuance rate4
More frequent financial reporting and market feedback effect: evidence from U.S. and EU regulatory changes4
Reputation and commercialism: Did accounting have a golden age? The US audit profession 1929–19904
Navigating new norms: The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act and its implications for innovation4
The effect of disclosure committees on non-GAAP reporting quality4
Director busyness and internal control weaknesses: Evidence from mergers and acquisitions3
The smart money is in cash? Financial literacy and liquid savings among U.S. families3
The impact of financial reporting flexibility on auditor risk judgement: Evidence from the implementation of FIN 46R3
Firm-level political risk and earnings opacity3
How do investors perceive corporate general counsel? The role of monitoring and advising demand3
Client consequences of auditor independence violations: Evidence from SEC sanctions against PwC3
Can third-party online sales disclosure help reduce earnings management? Evidence from China3
Spillover effects in mandatory environmental reporting3
The mandatory audit partner rotation policy and cost of debt3
The impact of investment banks going public on underwriting behavior: Evidence from IPO clients’ earnings management3
Why bigger is not stronger? A perspective on auditor groups and audit quality3
Editorial for the special issue on accounting and personal finance in the Journal of Accounting and Public Policy3
Code of ethics quality and audit fees3
Macroeconomic risk awareness and investor response: Evidence from Chinese listed firms3
GDP manipulation, political incentives, and earnings management3
Board generational cohorts, gender diversity and corporate environmental and social disclosures: Evidence from China3
Shifting from the incurred to the expected credit loss model and stock price crash risk3
Could financial education be a universal social policy? A simulation of potential influences on inequality levels3
Editorial Board3
Tone management and stock price crash risk3
Interim restatements and the audit engagement3
Incentive effects of tax transparency: Does country-by-country reporting call for arbitration?3
Labor skill and accounting conservatism3
Editorial Board3
Personal liability and independent directors: Evidence from China2
Birds of a feather flock together: Institutional investors with disciplinary history and financial reporting2
Friends can help: The effects of relationship in the Chinese book-building process2
Artificial intelligence in accounting: a comparative analysis of adoption in accounting and non-accounting firms2
Enforcement and disclosure2
Attention to corporate disclosure and earnings Management: Evidence from downloads of SEC filings2
Crowding-out or Calling-out? The influence of mandatory industry-related firm-specific information disclosure on analyst reports2
Theoretical analysis of non-deductible expenses: Implications for the design of compensation contracts2
Government spending and CEO equity incentives: Evidence from changes in U.S. Senate committee chairs2
Has the FINRA Rule 2242 been successful in enhancing the quality of debt reports issued by sell-side analysts?2
The AOCI filter removal and bank lending in times of stress2
To tell or not to tell? Examining voluntary disclosure of customers’ identities under capital market pressure2
Too much of a good thing? Mandatory risk disclosure and corporate innovation2
Skin in the game: Does outside directors’ equity-based compensation induce or mitigate stock price crash risk?2
Cybersecurity regulation and trade credit: Evidence from China2
Mandated joint audits: are two auditors better than one?2
An unintended consequence of raising public environmental awareness: Evidence from the release of the environmental documentary “Under the Dome” on earnings management2
Financial statement comparability and qualitative disclosures2
Corporate sustainability reporting2
Cybersecurity risk governance and companies’ cybersecurity risk disclosures in their 10-K filings2
Tunneling and dividend payouts: A tale of agency conflicts in China2
The impact of capping the SALT deduction on municipal bond pricing2
Financial reporting consequences of natural disasters: Evidence from the impact of resource constraints at audit offices on non-affected clients2
Do tainted independent directors affect financial restatement? Evidence from China2
Bribes and audit fees2
Bank earnings management and performance reporting of comprehensive income2
The spillover effects of accounting scandals in business groups2
The effect of small audit firms’ failure to remediate the PCAOB’s quality control criticisms on audit market segmentation2
Homophily versus monitoring: Do all female board directors drive the gender assignment of audit partners?2
Bridging the gap: A study of government suppliers' reporting practices2
Quality choices in corporate social responsibility reporting under heterogeneous investor preferences2
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