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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)
ArticleCitations
Product advertising and financial analyst forecasts80
Are climate scenario analysis disclosures valued by investors?48
Earnings management upon a sovereign downgrade: International evidence47
Deferred outflows of resources and deferred inflows of resources and municipal bond borrowing cost35
Does it pay to pray? Religious nonprofits and funding31
Does choice matter? The effect of filing method autonomy on taxpayer aggressiveness in a pre-filled tax return system29
Vol. 41, #2 Bios29
Dancing in Shackles: Clawback and corporate innovation29
Firms’ discretion in the option exercise price adjustments during spinoffs28
Vol. 41, #5, Bios27
Vol. 42, #1, Bios26
Consequences of earnings management triggered by delisting regulation: Evidence in China24
The usefulness of accrual-based surpluses in the Canadian public sector23
Going-concern CAM disclosures: An intermediate-level warning for financial distress22
Financial information, spillovers, and innovation performance21
Public country-by-country reporting and corporate social responsibility: an analysis of European multinational banks20
Earnings management with cash flow hedge accounting19
Environmental and university opportunity factors and CPA exam performance18
Political grammars of justification and cost-benefit analysis in SEC rulemaking17
Vol. 41, #6, Bios16
Auditors’ sensitivity to business risk under business risk auditing16
The impact of PCAOB international registration on audit quality and audit fees: Evidence from China15
Regulatory risk and auditors’ reporting conservatism: Evidence from Chinese comment letters15
An evaluation of root cause analysis use by internal auditors14
Financial reporting and corporate political connections: An analytical model of interactions14
Using relevant headings in risk factor disclosures: What is the impact on information processing?14
Local peers and corporate reporting behavior13
Options trading and corporate debt structure13
A study of anti-hedge policies: determinants and consequences13
Disclosure policy for relative performance indicators under product market competition12
Valuation implications of socially responsible tax avoidance: Evidence from the electricity industry12
SEC Rule 14a-8 shareholder proposals: No-action requests, determinants, and the role of SEC staff12
WSJ reporting of price-to-earnings ratios and attention to earnings12
Employee firing costs and auditors’ going-concern opinions: Evidence from wrongful discharge laws12
Public and private enforcement of non-GAAP reporting12
Clawback provisions and insider trading profits11
Chief Human Resource Officers and accounting disclosures: Illuminating the firm’s most important asset or window dressing?11
Shareholders’ tax incentives and changes in the organizational form of foreign operations11
Nigerian professional investors' sense-making of the impact of shareholder activism on corporate accountability10
Who participates in corporate income tax consolidation?: Evidence from Japan10
The influence of team consensus and inclusive climate on junior auditors’ conformity and risk assessment sharing10
Editorial for the special issue on professional judgment in accounting and auditing decisions10
Regulatory fragmentation and internal control weaknesses10
A concave relation between equity-based incentives and misreporting10
“Surprise” material weakness disclosures: Effects on audit fees and audit report lags10
Editorial Board10
Earnings management by banks through loan loss provisioning during downturns10
Cannabis financial statement audits in Canada before and after legalization: A “joint” analysis10
Does company reputation matter for voluntary disclosure quality? evidence from management earnings forecasts9
Does reporting quality affect systematic risk? Evidence from a regulatory lottery9
Managerial overconfidence and classification shifting9
The effects of local newspaper closures on nonprofits’ executive compensation9
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
Does writing down goodwill imperil a CEO’s job?9
Audit materiality judgments during the COVID-19 pandemic: Evidence from the United Kingdom8
Firm-level political risk and income smoothing8
The Journal of Accounting and Public Policy at 40: A bibliometric analysis8
Use of comment letters for mergers and acquisitions in a setting with weak investor protection: The Chinese experience8
Key audit matters as insights into auditors’ professional judgement: Evidence from the European Union8
Determinants and market consequences of audit partner changes after restatements8
Discretion in revenue recognition timing and comparability: Evidence from the implementation of SOP 97-27
Does the tax deductibility of interest affect financial reporting?7
The SEC revolving door and comment letters7
Cross-border listed firms’ IFRS-based financial reports: Are they comparable?7
Narrative R&D disclosure and insider trading profitability: Evidence from China6
Balancing growth and security: Exploring the impact of growth opportunities on cybersecurity breaches6
How does auditor planning materiality affect audit pricing of fair values and external valuation?6
Auditor's professional judgment, audit efficiency and interplay between legal liability and regulatory oversight6
Covid-19, corporate survival and public policy: The role of accounting information and regulation in the wake of a systemic crisis6
The impact of stock market liberalization on management forecast precision–Evidence from Mainland-Hong Kong Stock Connect Programs in China6
The impact of joint provision of audit and tax services on the advice of tax professionals6
Resilience and wellbeing in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic: The role of financial literacy6
Transparency trade-offs in the operation of national Public Private Partnership units: The case of Ireland’s National Development Finance Agency6
Director media experience, news coverage, and analyst information processing6
Editorial Board6
Short sellers and insider trading profitability: A natural experiment6
Do IPOs bear more severe legal consequences of accounting misstatements?6
Parent firm dividend payouts and subsidiary earnings management: Evidence from mandatory dividend policy6
Media competition and earnings management: evidence from China’s county newspaper conglomeration reform6
Editorial Board6
Short-sale constraints and firm investment efficiency: Evidence from a natural experiment6
Editorial Board5
Climate risk and long-lived tangible asset impairments5
Do public disclosures of investments in tax planning attract monitoring by tax authorities?5
Financial reporting quality effects of imposing (gender) quotas on boards of directors5
IFRS 7 adoption and bank risk taking5
Executive compensation horizon incentives, performance targets, and auditor risk assessment5
Misstatement verifiability and managers’ earnings warning decisions5
Media attention and regulatory efficiency of corporate violations: Evidence from China5
Penal accountancy and the Spanish Inquisition5
Evidence from the adoption of IFRS 9 and the impact of COVID-19 on lending and regulatory capital on Spanish Banks5
How does mandated sustainability disclosure about conflict minerals affect supply chain finance?5
Aggregate accounting research and development expenditures and the prediction of real gross domestic product5
Resisting institutionalized corruption: The case of public audit in Nigeria5
Changes in corporate cybersecurity risk disclosures after SEC comment letters5
Auditors’ hometown ties and audit quality5
Gender diversity and financial statement fraud5
Initial evidence on the content and market implications of stablecoin reserve reporting5
Press freedom and stock price crash risk4
Loss aversion and financial reporting: A possible explanation for the prevalence of discontinuities in reported earnings4
Partner-Level internal control opinion shopping and its economic consequences: Evidence from “SOX 404” in an emerging market4
Credit refinancing and corporate tax avoidance4
The JOBS Act and IPO issuance rate4
Economic consequences of expanding sales tax nexus: Evidence from stock price reactions to the Wayfair decision4
Effective board monitoring over earnings reports and forecasts: Evidence from CFO outside director appointments4
CEO inside debt and corporate political disclosure4
Support for pension reforms: What is the role of financial literacy and pension knowledge?4
Editorial Board4
Vol. 42, #2, Bios.4
Do investors turn a blind eye to risk-factor disclosures by state-supported firms?4
Managerial discretion and the comparability of fair value estimates4
Editorial for the special issue on auditing and public policy in China4
Access to IT-Capable employees and the relevance of financial information4
Tax regulations and corporate social responsibility: Evidence from the adoption of addback statutes4
Window dressing on bank problem loans: Evidence from natural disaster responses4
Voluntary versus mandatory disclosure of liability insurance coverage limit4
Editorial Board4
Editorial Board4
Employment quality and 10-K report readability4
Do corporate taxes affect employee welfare? Evidence from workplace safety4
Creditor enforcement and accounting quality: A natural experiment4
The mandatory audit partner rotation policy and cost of debt3
Firm-level political risk and earnings opacity3
Editorial Board3
Reputation and commercialism: Did accounting have a golden age? The US audit profession 1929–19903
Can third-party online sales disclosure help reduce earnings management? Evidence from China3
How do investors perceive corporate general counsel? The role of monitoring and advising demand3
Spillover effects in mandatory environmental reporting3
Code of ethics quality and audit fees3
Shifting from the incurred to the expected credit loss model and stock price crash risk3
The effect of disclosure committees on non-GAAP reporting quality3
GDP manipulation, political incentives, and earnings management3
Labor skill and accounting conservatism3
Incentive effects of tax transparency: Does country-by-country reporting call for arbitration?3
Board generational cohorts, gender diversity and corporate environmental and social disclosures: Evidence from China3
Tone management and stock price crash risk3
How do suppliers benefit from customers’ voluntary disclosure? the effect of customers’ earnings guidance on upstream firms’ investment efficiency3
Management earnings forecast and financial statement complexity3
Client consequences of auditor independence violations: Evidence from SEC sanctions against PwC3
Why bigger is not stronger? A perspective on auditor groups and audit quality3
Interim restatements and the audit engagement3
Director busyness and internal control weaknesses: Evidence from mergers and acquisitions3
Editorial for the special issue on accounting and personal finance in the Journal of Accounting and Public Policy2
Bridging the gap: A study of government suppliers' reporting practices2
An unintended consequence of raising public environmental awareness: Evidence from the release of the environmental documentary “Under the Dome” on earnings management2
Attention to corporate disclosure and earnings Management: Evidence from downloads of SEC filings2
Corporate social responsibility and classification shifting2
Could financial education be a universal social policy? A simulation of potential influences on inequality levels2
The impact of investment banks going public on underwriting behavior: Evidence from IPO clients’ earnings management2
The impact of financial reporting flexibility on auditor risk judgement: Evidence from the implementation of FIN 46R2
Political costs and corporate tax avoidance: Evidence from sin firms2
Too much of a good thing? Mandatory risk disclosure and corporate innovation2
The spillover effects of accounting scandals in business groups2
Theoretical analysis of non-deductible expenses: Implications for the design of compensation contracts2
Birds of a feather flock together: Institutional investors with disciplinary history and financial reporting2
PCAOB international inspection access and debt contracting: Evidence from American Depositary Receipt firms2
To tell or not to tell? Examining voluntary disclosure of customers’ identities under capital market pressure2
The AOCI filter removal and bank lending in times of stress2
The spillover effect of focal firms’ cybersecurity breaches on rivals and the role of the CIO: Evidence from stock trading volume2
Quality choices in corporate social responsibility reporting under heterogeneous investor preferences2
Cybersecurity risk governance and companies’ cybersecurity risk disclosures in their 10-K filings2
Government spending and CEO equity incentives: Evidence from changes in U.S. Senate committee chairs2
Corporate sustainability reporting2
Homophily versus monitoring: Do all female board directors drive the gender assignment of audit partners?2
Has the FINRA Rule 2242 been successful in enhancing the quality of debt reports issued by sell-side analysts?2
The smart money is in cash? Financial literacy and liquid savings among U.S. families2
Editorial Board2
The impact of capping the SALT deduction on municipal bond pricing2
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