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Does Accounting Comparability Affect Corporate Employment Decision-Making?

Zhuang Zhang, Collins G. Ntim, Qingjing Zhang, Mohamed Elmagrhi Orcid Logo

The British Accounting Review, Volume: 52, Issue: 6, Start page: 100937

Swansea University Author: Mohamed Elmagrhi Orcid Logo

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DOI (Published version): 10.1016/j.bar.2020.100937

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This paper investigates whether accounting comparability affects corporate employment decision-making. We find that firms with greater accounting comparability experience a lower degree of inefficiency in labour investments. Further, our results show that accounting comparability affects labour inve...

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ISSN: 0890-8389
Published: Elsevier BV 2020
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