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Ken Trotman
Working paper
Do regulatory requirements influence managers’ information processing bias in impairment decisions?
We conduct an experiment to investigate how regulatory requirements in the accounting for impairment, namely, reversibility of impairment losses and disclosure of impairment assumptions, influence managers’ bias in the processing of impairment information. Our results show that regulatory requirements influence managers’ information evaluation bias but not their bias in the search process. We find that...