Herita T. Akamah

University of Nebraska at Lincoln - School of Accountancy

307 College of Business Administration

Lincoln, NE 68588-0488

United States

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Tax Havens and Disclosure Aggregation

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Tax Havens and Disclosure Aggregation

Rotman School of Management Working Paper No. 2419573
Number of pages: 44 Posted: 04 Apr 2014 Last Revised: 15 Mar 2017
Herita T. Akamah, Ole-Kristian Hope and Wayne B. Thomas
University of Nebraska at Lincoln - School of Accountancy, University of Toronto - Rotman School of Management and University of Oklahoma
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Tax havens, aggregation, disclosure quality, tax avoidance, segment disclosure, Exhibit 21

Tax Havens and Disclosure Aggregation

Forthcoming, Journal of International Business Studies
Number of pages: 44 Posted: 24 Apr 2017
Herita T. Akamah, Ole-Kristian Hope and Wayne B. Thomas
University of Nebraska at Lincoln - School of Accountancy, University of Toronto - Rotman School of Management and University of Oklahoma
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Tax havens, aggregation, disclosure transparency, tax avoidance, geographic reporting, Exhibit 21

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The Effects of Rule-Based Versus Principle-Based Accounting Estimates on Auditors’ Going Concern Assessments

Number of pages: 58 Posted: 07 Jul 2019
Herita T. Akamah, Keith Czerney and Thomas C. Omer
University of Nebraska at Lincoln - School of Accountancy, University of Missouri-Columbia and University of Nebraska at Lincoln - School of Accountancy
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accounting estimates, auditors, rule-based standards, principle-based standards, going concern opinions, company failure

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Financial Constraints and Future Tax Outcome Volatility

Journal of Business, Finance & Accounting
Number of pages: 44 Posted: 04 Jul 2016 Last Revised: 25 Aug 2020
Herita T. Akamah, Thomas C. Omer and Sydney Qing Shu
University of Nebraska at Lincoln - School of Accountancy, University of Nebraska at Lincoln - School of Accountancy and Miami University of Ohio - Department of Accountancy
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tax rate volatility; financial constraint; cash effective tax rate; cash tax avoidance; tax strategy

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The Effect of Disclosing Audit Quality Control Deficiencies on Non-Audit Tax Services: Evidence from Deloitte’s 2007 PCAOB Part II Inspection Report

Journal of Accounting and Public Policy, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 58 Posted: 04 Jul 2016 Last Revised: 18 Mar 2021
Jaehan Ahn, Herita T. Akamah and Sydney Qing Shu
Northeastern University - Accounting Group, University of Nebraska at Lincoln - School of Accountancy and Miami University of Ohio - Department of Accountancy
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PCAOB Part II report; auditor-provided tax service; audit quality control deficiency; non-audit service

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Large Shareholders with Diversified Equity Portfolios and Voluntary Disclosure: International Evidence

Number of pages: 61 Posted: 22 Dec 2016 Last Revised: 13 Jan 2018
Herita T. Akamah and Sydney Qing Shu
University of Nebraska at Lincoln - School of Accountancy and Miami University of Ohio - Department of Accountancy
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Large shareholder; portfolio diversification; voluntary disclosure; information technology infrastructure; secrecy culture; investor relations; positive externality

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Societal Trust and Going Concern Assessments: Boon or Bane?

Number of pages: 56 Posted: 30 Jul 2018 Last Revised: 10 Nov 2019
Jaehan Ahn and Herita T. Akamah
Northeastern University - Accounting Group and University of Nebraska at Lincoln - School of Accountancy
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Going-concern opinion, societal trust, professional skepticism, informal controls, formal controls, legal liability

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Does Ex Ante Severance Pay Affect the Timeliness of Bad News Disclosure? The Role of Managerial Exit Costs

Journal of Accounting, Auditing, and Finance
Number of pages: 41 Posted: 04 Jul 2016 Last Revised: 25 Aug 2020
Herita T. Akamah, Bryan Brockbank and Sydney Qing Shu
University of Nebraska at Lincoln - School of Accountancy, University of Oklahoma - School of Accounting and Miami University of Ohio - Department of Accountancy
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ex ante severance pay; disclosure timeliness; managerial exit costs; bad news disclosure; efficient contracting

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Large Shareholder Portfolio Diversification and Voluntary Disclosure

Contemporary Accounting Research, Forthcoming
Posted: 28 Jun 2021
Herita T. Akamah and Sydney Qing Shu
University of Nebraska at Lincoln - School of Accountancy and Miami University of Ohio - Department of Accountancy

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large shareholder, portfolio diversification, voluntary disclosure, private information, alternative information channel, firm complexity

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Accounting Firm Association Membership and Small Audit Firm Growth

Northeastern U. D’Amore-McKim School of Business Research Paper No. 3120493
Posted: 12 Feb 2018 Last Revised: 12 Dec 2022
Jaehan Ahn, Herita T. Akamah, Kenneth L. Bills and K. Kelli Saunders
Northeastern University - Accounting Group, University of Nebraska at Lincoln - School of Accountancy, Michigan State University - Department of Accounting & Information Systems and University of Nebraska at Lincoln - School of Accountancy

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associations, networks, small audit firms, clientele growth, legitimacy