Bill Francis

Accounting · 2003–2015

A researcher in the Science corpus: 13 papers; trusts 90 researchers and is trusted by 6 researchers here, as inferred from the citation graph.

Subfields

• Accounting — 300 citations into it; #3,965 of 8,970 by trust here, #1,092 by citations
• Finance — 154 citations into it; #8,674 of 10,518 by trust here, #3,077 by citations
• Strategy and Management — 97 citations into it; #7,321 of 10,874 by trust here, #3,218 by citations
• Economics and Econometrics — 81 citations into it
• Information Systems — 5 citations into it
• Management Information Systems — 5 citations into it

Whom Bill Francis trusts overall

Their strongest outbound trust, strongest first, inferred from their citations.

1. Ross L. Watts
2. Todd Mitton
3. Ryan Lafond
4. Jieying Zhang
5. Jeong‐Bon Kim
6. April Klein
7. L. Bebchuk
8. Marianne Bertrand
9. Amy Y. Zang
10. Jiekun Huang

Who trusts Bill Francis overall

1. Riccardo Cimini
2. Iftekhar Hasan
3. Martin Plöckinger
4. W. Drobetz
5. Sabur Mollah
6. Simon S. M. Ho
7. Badar Nadeem Ashraf
8. Onur Bayar
9. Ewald Aschauer
10. M. Assenga

Papers from Bill Francis's perspective

Ordered by how strongly the researchers Bill Francis trusts endorse each paper. Same corpus, a different order for every researcher.

1. Conservatism in Accounting - Part Ii: Evidence and Research Opportunities
2. Managing with Style: The Effect of Managers on Firm Policies
3. Errors in Estimating Accruals: Implications for Empirical Research
4. PERFORMANCE MATCHED DISCRETIONARY ACCRUAL MEASURES
5. The Role of Accounting Conservatism in Mitigating Bondholder-Shareholder Conflicts over Dividend Policy and in Reducing Debt Costs
6. The Quality of Accruals and Earnings: The Role of Accrual Estimation Errors
7. The Information Role of Conservatism
8. THE EFFECT OF INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTIONAL FACTORS ON PROPERTIES OF ACCOUNTING EARNINGS
9. How Much Should We Trust Differences-in-Differences Estimates?
10. Acquisition Profitability and Timely Loss Recognition

Their papers

• Gender Differences in Financial Reporting Decision-Making: Evidence from Accounting Conservatism (2015) — 579 citations
• Are Female CFOs Less Tax Aggressive? Evidence from Tax Aggressiveness (2014) — 241 citations
• Abnormal real operations, real earnings management, and subsequent crashes in stock prices (2014) — 224 citations
• Political uncertainty and bank loan contracting (2014) — 338 citations
• Professors in the Boardroom and Their Impact on Corporate Governance and Firm Performance: Professors in the Boardroom (2014) — 332 citations
• The Benefits of Conservative Accounting to Shareholders: Evidence from the Financial Crisis (2013) — 189 citations
• The Impact of CFO Gender on Bank Loan Contracting (2013) — 143 citations
• Corporate governance and investment-cash flow sensitivity: Evidence from emerging markets (2013) — 122 citations
• Do Corporate Boards Matter During the Current Financial Crisis (2012) — 118 citations
• Do Corporate Boards Affect Firm Performance? New Evidence from the Financial Crisis (2012) — 153 citations
• Capital requirements and bank behavior in the UK: Are there lessons for international capital standards? (2012) — 203 citations
• Political Connections and the Process of Going Public: Evidence from China (2009) — 327 citations
• The Choice of IPO versus Takeover: Empirical Evidence* (2003) — 354 citations