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This study investigates the relation between credit supply competition among banks and their clients’ conditional accounting conservatism (i.e., asymmetric timely loss recognition). The Interstate Banking and Branching Efficiency Act (IBBEA) of 1994 permits banks and bank holding companies to expand their business across state lines, introducing a positive shock to

This study investigates the relation between credit supply competition among banks and their clients’ conditional accounting conservatism (i.e., asymmetric timely loss recognition). The Interstate Banking and Branching Efficiency Act (IBBEA) of 1994 permits banks and bank holding companies to expand their business across state lines, introducing a positive shock to credit supply competition in the banking industry. The increase in credit supply competition weakens banks’ bargaining power in the negotiation process, which in turn may weaken their ability to demand conservative financial reporting from borrowers. Consistent with this prediction, results show that firms report less conservatively after the IBBEA is passed in their headquartered states. The effect of the IBBEA on conditional conservatism is particularly stronger for firms in states with a greater increase in competition among banks, firms whose operations are more concentrated in their headquarter states, firms with greater financial constraints, and firms subject to less external monitoring. Robustness tests confirm that the observed decline in conditional conservatism is causally related to the passage of IBBEA. Overall, this study highlights the impact of credit supply competition on financial reporting practices.
ContributorsHuang, Wei (Author) / Li, Yinghua (Thesis advisor) / Huang, Xiaochuan (Committee member) / Kaplan, Steve (Committee member) / Arizona State University (Publisher)
Created2018
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Insider trading potentially reveals proprietary information, allowing rivals to compete more effectively against the insiders' firm. This paper examines whether proprietary costs are associated with insiders' trading decisions and the profitability of their trades. Using a variety of approaches to identify proprietary information risk, I find proprietary costs significantly deter

Insider trading potentially reveals proprietary information, allowing rivals to compete more effectively against the insiders' firm. This paper examines whether proprietary costs are associated with insiders' trading decisions and the profitability of their trades. Using a variety of approaches to identify proprietary information risk, I find proprietary costs significantly deter insiders' trading activities. The deterrence effect is more pronounced when insider trading is likely to be more informative to rivals. Specifically, trades by top executives, non-routine trades, and trades at low complexity firms are curbed to a greater extent by proprietary costs. Examining the mechanisms of this deterrence effect, I find firms with higher proprietary costs are more likely to impose insider trading restrictions, and insiders' trading decisions are more sensitive to proprietary costs when they have higher share ownership of the company. These results suggest insiders reduce trading activities not only due to firm policies, but also due to incentive alignment. Finally, when insiders trade despite higher proprietary costs, they earn significantly higher abnormal profits from their purchase transactions. Overall, this study suggests product market considerations are an important factor associated with insiders' trading decisions and profitability of their trades. These findings are likely to be of interest to regulators and corporate boards in setting insider trading policies, and help investors make investment decisions using insider trading signals.
ContributorsChoi, Lyungmae (Author) / Hillegeist, Stephen (Thesis advisor) / Faurel, Lucile (Thesis advisor) / Hugon, Jean (Committee member) / Huang, Xiaochuan (Committee member) / Arizona State University (Publisher)
Created2017
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Description为适应我国经济的快速发展以及经济的全球化,我国企业借助日益成长完善的资本市场,从主要依靠技术与产品的引进、消化和吸收转向了技术与产品的引进和输出并举的发展道路,企业并购成为了企业快速发展壮大的利器之一。我国的工程机械类企业凭借并购使全行业规模上升到世界第一位,成为了经济发展的支柱之一,并已形成三一重工、中联重科、徐工集团等一批行业领军企业,行业竞争力得到了提高,同时行业中企业之间竞争的加剧促使了我国工程机械企业在全球范围内整合产业价值链,进行了大量并购。

中联重科自成立以来,通过一系列的并购实现了快速规模发展,这一系列并购案例也为研究工程机械类企业并购研究和并购绩效分析提供了极好的素材。本文通过对中联重科从2001年到2018年并购案例进行详细分析和归纳总结,采用案例研究法对中联重科并购案例的短期绩效进行了研究,采用主成分分析法对中联重科主要并购案例的长期财务绩效进行了分析,同时就并购中的企业绩效和行业绩效进行了分析说明,认为并购行为是我国工程机械类企业发展和竞争的重要方式,是我国工程机械行业发展壮大的必然结果;短期绩效具有不确定性,不能成为判断并购成功与否的决定因素,长期的财务绩效也因指标影响差异明显,不一定能达到预期的效果,但并购对于我国工程机械企业的发展壮大又是有目共睹的。

因此在并购绩效评价中,要考虑并购所产生的溢出效应对于行业整体发展和国家经济综合发展的影响,要考虑并购所带来的先进技术和管理方法本身所引起的企业整体技术和管理水平的提升对企业成长的重要性。充分考量全球宏观环境,协整企业战略,放长并购绩效评价时间线,选择合适并购对像,合理估价,加强并购后资源整合,不失为企业发展的可选之策。

关键词:企业并购; 绩效评价;中联重科; 工程机械行业
ContributorsZhang, Ru (Author) / Huang, Xiaochuan (Thesis advisor) / Li, Xiaoyang (Thesis advisor) / Wang, Yimin (Committee member) / Arizona State University (Publisher)
Created2020
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Recent research finds that there is significant variation in stock market participation by state and suggests that there might be state-specific factors that determine household stock market participation in the United States. Using household survey data, I examine how accounting quality of public companies at the state level affects households’

Recent research finds that there is significant variation in stock market participation by state and suggests that there might be state-specific factors that determine household stock market participation in the United States. Using household survey data, I examine how accounting quality of public companies at the state level affects households’ stock market participation decisions. I find that households residing in states where local public companies have better accounting quality are more likely to invest in stocks. Moreover, those households invest greater amounts of their wealth in the stock market. Cross-sectional tests find that the effect of accounting quality on stock market participation is more pronounced for less affluent and less educated households, consistent with prior findings that lacking familiarity with and trust in the stock market is an important factor deterring those types of households from stock investments. In state-level tests, I find that these household outcomes affect income inequality, which is less severe in states where high public-firm accounting quality spurs more stock market participation by poorer households. Conversely, in states where public firms have lower accounting quality, stock market participation among poorer households is less common, and a larger share of high equity returns accrues to richer households, exacerbating income inequality.
ContributorsKim, Min (Author) / Huang, Xiaochuan (Thesis advisor) / Rykaczewski, Maria (Committee member) / White, Roger (Committee member) / Arizona State University (Publisher)
Created2020
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This study examines how short selling threats affect firms’ non-generally accepted accounting principles (non-GAAP) reporting quality. From 2005 to 2007, the SEC implemented a Pilot Program under Regulation SHO, in which one-third of the Russell 3000 index stocks were randomly chosen as pilot stocks and exempted from short-sale price tests.

This study examines how short selling threats affect firms’ non-generally accepted accounting principles (non-GAAP) reporting quality. From 2005 to 2007, the SEC implemented a Pilot Program under Regulation SHO, in which one-third of the Russell 3000 index stocks were randomly chosen as pilot stocks and exempted from short-sale price tests. As a result, short selling threats increased considerably for pilot stocks. Using difference-in-differences tests, I find that pilot firms respond to the increased short selling threats by reducing the use of low-quality non-GAAP exclusions, resulting in an improvement in the quality of overall non-GAAP exclusions. Further tests show that this effect of short selling threats is more pronounced for smaller firms, firms with lower institutional ownership, firms with lower analyst coverage, and firms with lower ratios of fundamental value to market value. These findings suggest short sellers play an important monitoring role in disciplining managers, as evidenced by the non-GAAP reporting choices of managers.
ContributorsLiu, Junjun (Author) / Faurel, Lucile (Thesis advisor) / Li, Yinghua (Committee member) / Rykaczewski, Maria (Committee member) / Arizona State University (Publisher)
Created2020
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This research study aims to find out the way how goodwill should be evaluated. This paper is about accounting for goodwill which will provide general information about goodwill value, especially of public companies. Additionally, I will discuss sources of goodwill, the importance of goodwill, why it is important to evaluate

This research study aims to find out the way how goodwill should be evaluated. This paper is about accounting for goodwill which will provide general information about goodwill value, especially of public companies. Additionally, I will discuss sources of goodwill, the importance of goodwill, why it is important to evaluate goodwill correctly, and what methods have been applied to evaluate goodwill. This thesis will analyze the advantages and disadvantages of both methods of accounting for goodwill which are the impairment testing method and the amortization method. This study is done by researching studies, journal articles, reviews, books, and websites about accounting. Lastly, this study will provide a suggestion for how goodwill should be evaluated effectively.

ContributorsPham, Trang Thi Thuy (Author) / Shields, Paul (Thesis director) / Huang, Xiaochuan (Committee member) / School of Accountancy (Contributor) / Department of Information Systems (Contributor) / Barrett, The Honors College (Contributor)
Created2021-05