Browsing by Author "Ranasinghe D"

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    Business strategy and strategic deviation in accounting, finance, and corporate governance: A review of the empirical literature
    (John Wiley and Sons Australia, Ltd on behalf of Accounting and Finance Association of Australia and New Zealand, 2024-03-21) Habib A; Ranasinghe D; Perera A
    We review the empirical archival literature on the consequences of business strategy and strategic deviation on accounting, finance, and corporate governance outcomes. We use Miles and Snow's (Organizational strategy, structure, and process. McGraw-Hill, 1978; Organizational strategy, structure and process. Stanford University Press, 2003) strategy typology that has been quantified using financial statement data by Bentley et al. (Contemporary Accounting Research, 2013, 30, 780). Research has used this strategy score to investigate the consequences of firms following two distinct strategies namely, prospectors versus defenders, on various organisational outcomes. Our survey provides mixed evidence on the relationship between business strategy, financial reporting quality, finance outcomes, and corporate governance including corporate social responsibility (CSR) activities. We offer some suggestions for future research.
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    Sales Order Backlog and Credit Ratings
    (Taylor and Francis Group on behalf of the European Accounting Association, 2024-05-05) Habib A; Ranasinghe D; Bhuiyan MBU
    This study examines the association between sales order backlog and credit ratings. We posit that credit rating agencies consider order backlog as a positive signal about strong future demand and incorporate that into their rating decisions and provide higher ratings to firms with substantial order backlogs. However, being a non-GAAP, unaudited metric, order backlog could also reduce financial reporting quality and hence, credit ratings of firms. Using a sample of US firms from 1980 to 2017, we find a positive and significant association between order backlog and credit ratings, suggesting that order backlog serves as a valuable measure in credit rating assessment by providing positive signals about future earnings to rating agencies.
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    Strategic Deviation and Corporate Tax Avoidance: A Risk Management Perspective
    (MDPI (Basel, Switzerland), 2024-04-04) Habib A; Ranasinghe D; Perera A
    We examine the association between strategic deviation—defined as the deviation of firms’ resource allocation from that of industry peers—and corporate tax avoidance. By combining the agency perspective with the risk aspect, we argue that managers of firms with high strategic deviation avoid tax compared with those of firms with low strategic deviation. High-strategic-deviant firms who avoid tax are likely to face the risk of compromising firm value. Based on a large sample of 40,168 US firm-year observations for the period 1987–2020, we find evidence supporting our hypothesis. A series of robustness tests validates our main finding. We further provide evidence to suggest that the positive association between strategic deviation and tax avoidance is stronger for deviant firms with high financial constraints, low institutional ownership, firms operating in more competitive markets, and procuring higher auditor provided tax services from incumbent auditors. Importantly, we show that the capital market penalises tax avoidance strategies undertaken by the deviant firms.